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Hypernym for “men, women, kids, etc.” [closed]
I need a column heading for the following terms: Men, Women, Unisex, Kids, Girls, Boys, etc.
I want to show the column heading for above words in my webshop. What are your suggestions?
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Hypernym for “business”, “company”, “organization”, “institution”
Is there a hypernym for the following terms?
Local business
Company
Organization or institution
Edit
I am building a website where one can create a profile that will either be a Local Business, ...
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Hypernym for “conjunction” and “disjunction”
Is there a hypernym for conjunction and disjunction, in their logical senses? Just using "junction" doesn't seem right to me.
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Referring to people from different parts of United Kingdom
I see four people in front of me. One is from Wales, one is from Scotland, one is from England and one is from Northern Ireland. I can say about each one "He is Scottish/Welsh/English". But, how do I ...
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What category name covers things that are designed to stand on the floor?
How to name a category of tall objects that are designed to stand on the floor as opposed to standing on a table? The tabletop objects are shorter than the freestanding objects and I cannot use ...
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Verb to describe “to enable or to disable”
I'm looking for a word that describes "to enable or to disable". This related question found the hypernyms mode and state, but I am looking for a verb. I.e. a word for "(potentially) change ...
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Hypernym for “clients”, “members” and “partners”
We're building a feature for a website and trying to think of a hypernym for clients, partners and members so that the feature remains generic enough for re-use later on other websites.
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Is there a term which covers ATM cards, credit cards, and debit cards?
I work in accommodation for international travelers, and people can pay with various kinds of cards:
In some countries such as USA, credit cards are very common, but debit cards are not so common.
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Single word for denoting “various divisions of the day” [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
What is the category name to describe “day”, “night”, or “dusk”?
What would be the hypernym for the various divisions of the day such as morning, noon, evening or night?
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What is the class of things that includes “new” and “existing”?
I'm trying to name a database attribute that might take the value "new" or "existing". What is an appropriate name? Something like "newity"? What is the relevant concept?
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What is the category name to describe “day”, “night”, or “dusk”?
I'm applying tags to a set of recorded data files, and I have to classify by when the recording appears to be taken (if it's light or dark).
TimeOfDay: Day
TimeOfDay: Night
TimeOfDay: Dusk
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Hypernyms for “historic/archeological places”, “churches/temples/mosques”
We are building a travel app that will have categories of places like
Wild Life
Rivers
Beaches
Hill Stations
I also want to have categories describing the following:
Historic Places / ...
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5answers
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What is the term for groups of numerals within a large number?
I am writing software in which I would like to be able to return the groups of numerals within a large number. For example, given a number 123,456,789, my software would return 123 then 456 then 789.
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Hypernym for the products from trees
I want to know a hypernym I can use to call products from trees. For example, mangoes, coconuts, oranges, bananas.
I want to use this word in a context like below sentences.
Mangoes are .... ...
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Hypernym for “day”, “month”, “week”, “year”
I would like to know if there is a single-word hypernym for day, month, week and year.
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If not directions, what are items in the set {northbound, eastbound, southbound, westbound}?
Is there a word that describes an item in the set {northbound, eastbound, southbound, westbound} as distinct from an item in the set {north, east, south, west}?
Washington (place) → Washingtonian ...
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Hypernym for “compassion”, “malice”, “hatred”, “love”, “inspiration”, etc
It's not specifically an emotion, a feeling, or a state of mind—it's something else. Anyone have an idea what is is I'm looking for? Maybe if someone could complete this sentence:
Anger, rage, ...
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What is the correct term to describe 'primary', 'secondary', etc
What is the correct term to describe the words in the following sequence: primary, secondary, tertiary, quaternary, quinary, senary, septenary, octonary, nonary, denary, duodenary, etc.
I am thinking ...
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Hypernym for webstore features? [closed]
Behold the following list:
Special Offers
Free Products
New Arrivals
Restocked Items
Limited Stock
These are all... what? Offers? Categories? Filters? Marketing Ploys?
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3answers
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Hypernym of 'deposit' and 'withdraw'
I am looking for a hypernym of to deposit and to withdraw (money to and from a bank account).
I thought about several options like "to perform a financial transaction", however I need something more ...
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2answers
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Hypernym for image, video, and audio
I want to put all my images, videos, and audio files from my camera in only one folder on my computer. What should be the name to give to that folder?
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Hypernym for human organs, body parts, etc
I'd like to find a hypernym for human organs such as liver and lung, body parts such as left upper arm, piece of muscle such as biceps, and other systems such as human body fat, body fluids. Is there ...
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Is there a hypernym for persons and companies as entities?
I have to describe owners of certain properties and those can be persons or companies. I was thinking of naming them entities, but that seems too broad.
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Hypernym for “pens”, “pencils” & “erasers”? [closed]
I'm looking for a term (ideally a single word) that could be used to describe tools used to draw/write/erase. I'm trying to avoid single words like "tool" or "implement", which don't conjure up the ...
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Hypernym for “restaurant”, “cafe” and other food places
I am looking for a hypernym for all places that provide food, beverages, or both, of any quality or price — such as restaurant, cafe, fast-food and so on.
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Hypernym for “before” and “after” [closed]
What is the the hypernym for before and after? What sort of prepositions are they?
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A word that encompasses buying and selling?
I'm trying to retag some questions (such as this one) on the Board Game Stack Exchange, and the only good tag I can think of is "Selling".
But that seems inefficient, and a word that covers both ...
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Hypernym for “boys only”, “girls only”, and “co-ed”
What word would be used on a form where one is asked to stipulate if a school accepts only boys, girls or is co-ed?
We are creating the form, and the word I am looking for would be used for a drop ...
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What is the hypernym for “next” and “previous”?
I'm looking for an umbrella term for "next" and "previous" so that I don't have to call my programming methods "NextPrevious".
Is there a hypernym for the two?
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“Left” and “right” are to “side” as “front” and “rear” are to what?
Is there an equivalent word to "side" when speaking of the front or rear of something (e.g. a car)?
So, a mechanic might say:
You damaged your wing-mirror? Ok, which side?
... or...
You ...
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5answers
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Hypernym for “coalition” and “opposition”
I'm looking for a word (or expression) that is a hypernym of coalition and opposition. I want to be able to ask a party whether its "type", for lack of a better word, is coalition or the opposition ...
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What are questions like “why did the chicken cross the road” called?
What are questions like
Why did the chicken cross the road?
called? I want to know if there is a particular term given to these type of questions.
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Hypernym for various parts of a plant
Bark, berry, flower, herb, leaves, nuts, plant, resin, seeds, wood, etc.
These are all — what? Parts? components? elements? plant forms? divisions?
I have the sense there may be a more elegant word ...
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Is there a word like “sides” that means “top or bottom”?
"Sides" can be used to describe positioning relative to the left or right of an object. Is there a corresponding word that has the same meaning for the top or bottom of an object?
For example, if I ...
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Word that describes a collection of goals
I have a list of goals, and I need a word that would best describe it. A person would need to complete work on these goals to achieve their overall goal. E.g., "weight loss" would be a main goal, with ...
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Category of words — 'another', 'an additional', “an alternative”, etc
I'm afraid I've had a sudden lapse of memory and have forgotten what category these kinds of words belong to. These words are used to expand upon another point within the same category.
For example:
...
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“Paintings on walls and ceilings” and “painting of portraits, landscapes”
I am creating a portfolio of painter's works and I need to categorize them.
There will be two global categories:
Paintings on canvas
Painting on walls and ceilings
The paintings on canvas divide ...
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Is there a hypernym for “horizontal” and “vertical”?
If I want to speak of North, South, East, West in a general sense I could, for example, use the term cardinal direction.
Which term is appropriate to sum up horizontal and vertical in the same ...
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“Sender” is to “receiver” as “distributor” is to what?
I'm looking for a word that means the party being distributed to by a distributor.
I'm in the film industry. There are wholesalers and distributors. Even though both roles could be called ...
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A word that describes both “encoding” and “decoding”?
I am looking for a word that describes both of these activities, however the word coding does not seem to be suitable.
Likewise with encryption and decryption, cryption does not work well.
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What do you call a person working in law?
Politics is to politician as law is to what?
A hypernym for lawyer/judge/law student, etc.
Edit: Not only in the legal system, anyone practicing or researching the subject. Maybe politics wasn't the ...
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What's the category name of “city” and “rural”?
When I ask whether someone's living situation is rural or city, what's the category I'm asking about? Living situation includes many other things, but there's gotta be a word summarizing those two ...
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4answers
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What's a collective name for the states of Alaska and Hawaii?
Wondering if there is a common name for the "Dis-contiguous" states of Alaska and Hawaii.
If not, what would be a good single word label to describe these two states, especially in context of dividing ...
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Hypernym for “webinars” and “podcasts”
I'm looking for a single word that describes both webinars and podcasts. Any ideas?
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What are the pieces used to fill in a template called?
If I have a template (say a generic letter) that is filled in with various pieces of data (say, the name of the addressee), what is a general term for those pieces of data?
For example:
Dear ...
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What is the name for punctuation marks such as commas and periods that separate things like clauses or sentences?
When I'm editing people's writing, I recently started writing the comment "put an article here" rather than "put a 'the' or 'a' here".
Similarly, right now I have to put, "you need a comma or period ...
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Word that means “outdated name”
Is there a word that means "outdated name"?
For example:
Record, although very little music is on vinyl
Film, although most movies are digital
Horsepower, although no one uses horses as a metric ...
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Things we put on the left side of lists
I'm looking for an umbrella term (hypernym) that covers the things we put on the left side of lists — bullets, numbers, letters, etc. Is there such a word?
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A term that can be used to group towns and provinces together
I've been given some names of towns and provinces for a tourism web-site. Is there a hypernym that could categorize both of them together? I've been thinking of the word "locality" but I'm not sure if ...
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What's the hypernym for “owned” and “rented”?
If I must ask a person if his house is owned or rented, which word would make a proper relation?
I am looking for something like this:
What's your [...] with the Property (or Car, or Camera)? ...
