Timeline for Word for concept of degrees of definition [duplicate]
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| Feb 11, 2021 at 15:41 | comment | added | Edwin Ashworth | The second-listed earlier thread contains 'semantic shift' and the sub-category of narrowing. | |
| Feb 11, 2021 at 15:39 | history | duplicates list edited | Edwin Ashworth | duplicates list edited from How do you refer to a hyponym that is the same word as the hypernym? to How do you refer to a hyponym that is the same word as the hypernym?, Single-word request for words that do not mean quite the same thing as before | |
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| Feb 11, 2021 at 6:48 | history | edited | Erics | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Feb 10, 2021 at 15:53 | history | closed | Edwin Ashworth single-word-requests Users with the single-word-requests badge or a synonym can single-handedly close single-word-requests questions as duplicates and reopen them as needed. | Duplicate of How do you refer to a hyponym that is the same word as the hypernym? | |
| Feb 10, 2021 at 5:06 | history | edited | Erics | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Feb 10, 2021 at 4:56 | history | edited | Erics | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Feb 10, 2021 at 4:55 | comment | added | Erics | @KannE Who knows. Kids these days, constantly evolving the language. Bah humbug =) | |
| Feb 10, 2021 at 4:42 | comment | added | Erics | @PhilSweet Ooh, nice .. sense itself has polysemy, of which it sounds like there are a particualar two that are mostly the same but differing in precision (i.e. general usage vs lexicographical). I am unfamiliar with this lexicographic sense you mention, but it's led me to academic.oup.com/ijl/article-abstract/8/1/1/923391 as a starter. All a bit above my paygrade though. Thanks! | |
| Feb 10, 2021 at 4:37 | comment | added | Erics | @KannE I used the word "colloquial" in the sense of "used in ordinary or familiar conversation; not formal or literary" — doesn't that fit "widely accepted definition"? | |
| Feb 10, 2021 at 4:33 | comment | added | Erics | @EdwinAshworth Thanks! Not polysemy - that the word "chair" has multiple senses (both verbs and nouns) isn't the sense I was aiming at. Contranym is closer than polysemy, at least in that the two definitions are in conflict, and that careless usage can lead to confusion, but still not quite what I seek in that the definitions are opposites (the sense I seek is along the narrower/broader axis, but without the abstracting that hyponymy describes). | |
| Feb 9, 2021 at 15:57 | comment | added | Edwin Ashworth | no term meaning 'degree of polysemy', 'total number of senses found in OED plus academic, business and legal works' or 'confusability rating'. | |
| Feb 9, 2021 at 15:57 | comment | added | Edwin Ashworth | Does the accepted answer here answer your question? Can a secondary definition violate / negate the first definition?. The concepts of hypernymy/hyponymy and polysemy are covered comprehensively elsewhere. 'Dictionary definitions' are what you find in standard dictionaries (though there may be conflict even in general usage), while agencies, institutions etc may apply precising or (when there is ensuing conflict) stipulative definitions. I know of ... | |
| Feb 9, 2021 at 6:59 | answer | added | Xanne | timeline score: 0 | |
| Feb 9, 2021 at 4:36 | answer | added | Elliot | timeline score: 0 | |
| Feb 9, 2021 at 4:14 | comment | added | Xanne | Chemical-free soup! Yay! | |
| Feb 9, 2021 at 3:58 | comment | added | Peter | @KannE, can you provide references to support your claim that "chemical" is defined as being dangerous and not natural? | |
| Feb 9, 2021 at 3:49 | comment | added | Phil Sweet | I think you want sense (which of course has a regular meaning, and a special lexicographical one, as it should). | |
| Feb 9, 2021 at 1:55 | history | asked | Erics | CC BY-SA 4.0 |