A hypernym is a word whose definition includes the definition of another word (its hyponym).
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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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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Word that means “outdated name”
Is there a word that means "outdated name"?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 is an overall term for a service that publishes digital publications?
I'm looking at what I am calling Digital Edition Solution Providers (ways of taking a PDF of a magazine and turning it into a website, and content for sale on Apple Newsstand, Android, KindleFire ...
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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)? ...
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Where can I find a list of synonyms and hyponyms for different food types? [closed]
I'm trying to find a list of synonyms between various food types for a programming project I am working on with searching English language phrases. I was originally going to ask this on Stack ...
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Alternative word for “media” for disks, USB storage etc
I'm looking for a generic word to describe (removable) computer storage such as CDs, USB sticks, floppies etc which is as clear as possible to non-technical people. It doesn't have to clearly ...
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Is there a word that encompasses both “receiving” and “sending”? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Word for application that is both sender and receiver
In the sentence "There are many ways to receive and send information.", is there a word that can replace "receive ...
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Term for exaggerations such as “always”, “never”, “constantly”, and so on
I believe there is a term for words such as never, always, constantly, and so forth; words that generally exaggerate the situation being described. Unfortunately, I can't recall what that term is if I ...
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Generic name for places like village, town and cities
There is the German word Ort or Ortschaft which is a hypernym for places where people live like
villages
towns
cities
etc.
Is there a correspondent word in English?
I don't want to use location ...
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Generic term for songs, movies, TV episodes, etc
For the model of a software project, I need a generic term that is abstract enough to encompass a single song, TV episode, movie, audiobook, etc.
The word content comes to mind, but it is plural. The ...
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Single word for the holder or location of an item?
I'm looking for a single word to describe the place or person an item is assigned to. The context is basic asset management, where you have a list of assets (such as computers, software licenses or ...
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Are restaurants retailers?
Can I represent restaurants by the noun retailer?
I also want to group the entities hotels, museums, restaurants/cafes/bars and retailers. How do we group these cleverly? I am going to refer to them ...
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Is there a word that means both opening and closing a door?
As in,
Please do not __ this door after midnight.
Operate? Move?
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Hypernym of academia, researchers and topic enthusiasts
Could academics or acads be used to describe the university faculty as well as researchers? What is a better hypernym of academia, researchers and topic enthusiasts?
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Need a generic term for “model types” and “platforms” [closed]
We are a team of 2 developing a web application. It allows scientists to upload files with measurement data. My question is about how we should name one kind of metadata.
An uploaded file might be ...
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What is the proper term to describe the levels of experience for a trade?
For the life of me I can't recall or even Google the proper term to describe the levels of experience for a given trade.
For example let's say there are 5 levels of experience to trade x:
Rookie
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Hypernym for “increase” and “decrease”
Is there a word in English which would encompass both the action of increasing or decreasing [the value of] something?
I am looking at a word similar to modify, change or alter. But the first two do ...
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Suitable abstraction for Email and SMS
I am making a piece of software which has the ability to send out Emails and SMS messages.
My boss has asked for both facilities to go under the same heading in a dropdown menu. But I can't think of ...
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Hypernym: Word that means 'window' or 'door'
There's the Italian word serramento which means "a window or a door", used in this way for example:
Our company produces [serramenti] in aluminium.
Is there an equivalent word or expression ...
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Is there a collective term to describe “coffee” and “tea”? [closed]
Any term to describe both of them — coffee and tea collectively?
I wanted to call it beverages but that also includes drinks outside coffee and tea. Also, I could call it hot drinks but that would ...
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Hypernym for “audiobook”, “podcast”, “speech”, etc.?
I am looking for a short and concise term (preferably one word) that can be used as a hypernym for essentially everything that contains (audio) speech (e.g. audiobooks, podcasts, recorded news ...
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What is the name of this type of word: “Mr.”, “Ms.”, “Dr.”?
What is this type of word called: Mr., Ms., Dr.? In the document I am using, it is referred to as the "prefix", but I don't think that is correct.
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Is there a technical term for insideout-ness?
So the technical term for right or left handedness is chirality.
The technical term for evenness or oddness is parity.
Is there a similar term for inside-out-ness vs right-side-out-ness?
EDIT:
I ...
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What category includes “document” and “video”?
I want a common word that could categorise both document (like presentation/portfolio etc.) and video. Any good ideas?
I need something simple enough that everyone can understand & not just the ...
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Is there a generic name for public transport interchanges?
Is there a generic name for public transport interchanges? For example: railway stations, bus stations, ferryports, airports, tram stops.
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What is the warning that you're almost done called?
Consider the following items:
the warning track around a baseball outfield
the red stripe near the end of the a roll of receipt paper
the margin bell on a typewriter
the rumble strips when a highway ...
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A word for clothes, shoes, accessories?
I'm looking for a word that applies to all the things a person can wear, e.g. clothes, shoes, accessories, etc. It musn't be too generic, e.g. product, item, etc.
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What would a generic term be for a puck or ball in a sport?
I'm a programmer and like to name my variables as accurately as possible (who knows who will be reading my code in a few years' time?)
I've been thinking about sports video games recently, and have ...
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Synonym for 'description'
Preferably a short one. 'Description' fits my purpose very well, but is longer than I'd like (3 - 5 letters are ideal).
It's going to be used as a heading, umbrella-term, button or similar for ...
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General term for muggle-type terms?
Is there a general term to refer to "a semi-denigrating term used by a minority social group (not necessarily a racial group) to refer to the majority". Examples would be "muggle", "gentile", ...
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Freshmen, Sophomores, Juniors, Seniors - what category?
Is there a single-word category for the status Freshmen, Sophomores, Juniors, Seniors? I've heard it called as "batch status" but can't seem to find the right single-word category for it.
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Does British English have a word for dry, starchy savoury snacks that are not fried slices of potato?
Everyone, the world over, enjoys savoury snacks, particularly dry, starchy ones. Far and away the most popular kind in the Anglosphere are the ones made from deep-fried (sometimes baked) thinly-sliced ...
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What overarching category do “street,” “road,” “avenue”, etc. belong to?
Apple belongs to the category of Fruit.
What category do street, road, and avenue belong to?
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What word defines a category suited for both header and footer?
So there I was, trying to ask a question (now on SO) on Webmaster.SE partly involving a 'header' and a 'footer'. One part of my code defines shared aspects of both the header and the footer.
Anyway ...
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Word to describe both adding and removing but not updating
I am looking for a word that can describe the act of adding/removing objects but at the same time avoid a word that has to do with updating.
So, given
adding an object,
removing an object,
updating ...
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Is there a single word for a “unit of time”?
If I were to have a text box for someone to enter an integer and dropdown list from which my user would select day(s), hour(s), minute(s) or second(s), is there a single word that would describe what ...
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Is there a hypernym for “order confirmation”, “quotation” and “invoice”?
Is there an abstraction for the following three words?
Order confirmation
Quotation
Invoice
I want to create a base class for the above but I can't find a word that describes all three.
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How can I call the type of kicks in football (soccer) in one or two words?
Corner kick, free kick, penalty kick — how can I call those kicks? "Deadplay kicks", "fixed kicks"?
Is there any special naming for this type of kicks?
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“Things which are hung/mounted on wall” in a single word?
Is there an umbrella term for things like:
wall clock
wall-mounted TV
tapestry
I'm looking for a single, or at most two words for naming a concept in a programming project.
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Gender-independent replacement for “fiancée” and “fiancé”
I can use child to replace son or daughter, sibling for sister or brother, and parent for mother or father.
What is the unisex replacement for fiancée and fiancé?
I don’t need it for speech, but for ...
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Is there a word for “international or domestic travel”?
I'm looking for a word that represents "type of travel" where that type is either domestic or international.
Does this word exist?
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Term encompassing thread, string, lanyard, and wire
Looking for a general term for things one would store on a spool -- thread, string, lanyard, wire, that sort of thing. Things that occur in long lines and will get tangled up if you don't organize ...
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English term that groups notes and coins of a currency
I'm programming a web application and I need to name the "class of things" that are notes and coins.
So far the best I could find was "currency piece".
Is that the correct way of naming the notes ...
