A hypernym is a word whose definition includes the definition of another word (its hyponym).
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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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“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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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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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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“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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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 a ship's biscuit a biscuit or a cake?
Cakes go hard when they are stale. Biscuits go soft when they are stale.
So, what about a ship's biscuit?
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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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Word for the superclass of buttons, zippers, and pegs?
I’m looking for a word which describes all of buttons, zippers, and pegs — or any objects used to secure clothing, such as on the face of a t-shirt or jacket.
I’ve considered using seal and ...
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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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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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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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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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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 “business”, “company”, “organization”, “institution”
Is there a hypernym for the following terms?
Local business
Company
Organization or institution
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I am building a website where one can create a profile that will either be a Local Business, ...
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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 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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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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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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“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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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 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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More general term than “slashdotting”
"Slashdotting", or the slashdot effect is where a high profile website has a link to a low profile, low traffic website, and the increased web traffic on the latter causes it to slow down or crash.
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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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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 one word that clearly describes the difference in kind for these four types?
I am stuck on a word choice problem. I have a large amount of response related data, which were previously stored such that each datum lay within one of the following realms:
law enforcement
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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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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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I am trying to come up with a term for actions Replace/Prepend/Append
Let's assume I have a text in the notepad: "Some Text".
If I enter more words after the text it will be an append ("Some Text Another Text"), otherwise it will be a prepend ("Another Text Some ...
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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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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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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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Hypernym for “webinars” and “podcasts”
I'm looking for a single word that describes both webinars and podcasts. Any ideas?
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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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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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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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Need a word to describe book/academic journal as distinct from technical report
I am designing a database and I have an entity called Publication.
A Publication can be either a book/academic journal or a technical report.
So I need a word for book/academic journal as ...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Alternative for the word “options” as in “extra purchase possibilities to go with a booking”
Is there a better alternative to the word options when referring to "extra purchase possibilities next to a booking you have already made"? For instance, you can think of food and beverages, ...
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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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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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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.
