Questions tagged [hypernyms]
A hyperonym is a word whose definition includes the definition of another word (its hyponym).
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Hypernym for being instantaneous or sustained
What is a word for the state of being instantaneous or sustained? For example, with minimum or maximum, a good choice might be bound.
As far as the context goes, I'm working on adding some logging in ...
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Hypernym for "necklace", "bracelet" and "anklet"
Each is an item of jewelry that is primarily distinguished by the body part around which it is wrapped. Jewelry is too generic a term, since it would include earrings as well, which are not wrapped ...
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A term encompassing both 'salary' and 'wage(s)'
Your employee income tax is calculated as a fraction of your overall ________, be it through wages or salary, but not your gains from invested savings."
what do I put down in the ______ ? Is it "...
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Hypernym for pluralise and singularise
To pluralise is to make plural, dog becomes dogs, conversely singularise. What is the generic term for such actions? The number of a verb is its singularity or plurality, so perhaps numberise?
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What's the word for day/night?
So I'm customizing a WordPress (cms) for hotel for a client and he asked me to do add a new functionality that is a options dropdown where the user can select "time" like
Time:
- Day
- Night
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Hypernym for "driver" and "passenger"
Is there a single word that covers any person who "rides" in a vehicle?
Driver would refer only to the person driving the vehicle.
Passenger can be used for everyone but not the driver.
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Hypernym for "business" and "private individual"
An example sentence:
Whether, and how much VAT is collected depends on your _________ (private or business) and the country you are located in.
Both formal and informal words are welcome. As long ...
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What is a word that encompasses drugs, supplements, and foods?
I want a word to use to describe a drug, vitamin, mineral, supplement, herb, food, or spice that you can take to treat a disease or that would affect the body.
I want to put a label on these things. ...
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Hypernym for "audio podcast", "radio drama", and "audiobook" [duplicate]
I'm setting up my media library to contain music, movies, shows, audio podcasts, radio dramas, and audiobooks.
I would like audio podcasts, radio dramas, and audiobooks to be in the same category, ...
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Is there a word to encompass the two states of a day: AM and PM, morning and afternoon? [duplicate]
A single word which sums up the option of AM/PM or morning/afternoon.
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Politically correct substitutes for (fe)male and (wo)man
In the English language, the pairs man/woman and male/female both look as if one gender or sex was considered a special case for it is denoted by putting an arbitrary prefix (wo-, fe-) before the ...
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A hypernym for 'insects', 'worms' and the like
From Oxford:
insect:
any small creature with six legs and a body divided into three parts. Insects usually also have wings. Ants, bees and flies are all insects
Insect is often used to refer to other ...
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Is there a word for two words that refer to something similar but aren't identical?
The best example I came up with is the following:
Just for the sake of argument, Eastern Orthodox and Catholic; two words which refer to similar religions, but are not identical.
How would that be ...
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Hypernym for "bark", "meow", "roar"
Is there a hypernym for animal noises like "bark", "meow", "roar", et cetera?
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French (and, hey, others too) equivalent of "anglicize"
Is there a preferred word that means "to change (a word) to sound (or otherwise appear) as if it came from French"? I've found both "Frenchize" and "Francize" with a web search. If the latter is ...
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Hypernym for "to increase" and "to decrease" [closed]
I'm writing a walkthrough for a video game I really enjoy and I came to a point where there is a system that you can change the "power level" of monsters. It goes up and down, 0 - 1 - 2 - 3 - ect...
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'Male'/'female' is to 'gender' as 'plural'/'singular' is to what? [closed]
'Male'/'female' is to 'gender' as 'plural'/'singular' is to ?
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What's the single-word for "left or right handed"?
'Male'/'female' is to 'gender' as 'left-handed'/'right-handed 'is to...?
Is there a word to describe this? For example, if I ask a guy
What's your ____?
It should mean I'm asking whether he's ...
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Hypernym for different time sections of a day [duplicate]
In a day, we have different names for different times of it. For example, morning, afternoon, night, evening, noon.
I need a hypernym for them all. What word should I use?
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Hypernym for "for sale", "for rent", etc
What do you call the category whose members include "For Sale," "For Rent," "For Lease," etc.?
To put it another way, how would you fill in the blank:
When we see a signage for an apartment for ...
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Word that includes laptop, tablet, smartphone etc
What's a word (or phrase) that includes laptops, tablets and cellphones (or similar portable electronic devices that resemble a computer)? I would prefer it to be a short (and intuitive) term.
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What is the common name/word for movies, games, songs, books etc? [closed]
English is not my main language. I am trying to find a word or a phrase (2 or 3(!) words maximum) to make a reference to these actions for an article.
What is the common name for these kind of ...
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A word that means to both encrypt and decrypt [duplicate]
I am currently writing a small class in C# which will take an image, decompile it down to a byte array, obfuscate the data into a proprietary format (thus making it unreadable), and store said data ...
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Name for the property of a thing that allows it to be described practically infinite ways
There are things that can be described in numerous ways, but the description still means the same thing.
Is there a word or phrase that encapsulates such things, or the property about the things that ...
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Hypernym for "individual" and "company"
Could anyone let me know any good umbrella term for individual and company?
I'm trying to create a form as below. And I need a word or phrase to fill the blank:
_____: individual/company
name: [...
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Dating equivalent of 'spouse'
I want to ask someone, "Describe the perfect girlfriend/boyfriend" but I don't want to be so hetero-normative. So I'm looking for a simple gender-neutral/gender-inclusive equivalent for boyfriend/...
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A general term for standards, legislation, handbooks, etc.?
What is a general word or phrase that could encompass the class of documents called standards (i.e. ISO, ANSI, BS, etc.), legislation, laws, handbooks, style guides, manuals, etc.? Basically, all ...
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Hypernym for "scientist" and "engineer"
I'm writing a paper about the practice of programming by scientists and engineers, but I find it increasingly tedious to always refer to my subject as "scientists and engineers".
Is there a single ...
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Analog for 'side', but for front vs. rear [duplicate]
I wish to name a property that expresses whether something is in the front or at the rear. This term has to be used together with 'side' without causing ambiguity.
Much like 'side' can be left or ...
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Field Name for "positive, negative or neutral" [closed]
I have a Web form which allows users to give feedback, as a hazard, incident, comment or suggestions.
I'm trying to work out what the best descriptive name for the "Feedback Type" would be, whose ...
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Which word is best; "population", "pick" or "combination"?
Please look at the sentence below.
The ________ of actors and actresses is very important in this movie I will make.
Which of the following three words fit best in the blank space?
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Hypernym for "goods" and "services"
I'm coming up with a model for how human relationships work, and trying to break down the fundamental areas of "value" that people exchange. One of them is simply related to real world survival, and ...
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What is a hypernym for "geography", "areography"?
I am looking for a hypernym for words such as geography (Earth) and areography (Mars), primarily out of curiosity.
In my workplace, we have a database and that has a column for "geo_id" which of ...
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Hypernym for "clock" and "watch"
Yesterday I said: "I can't read analog clocks", but my interlocutor corrected me saying that what I was pointing at was a watch and not a clock.
Now, I am aware of the difference between the two, ...
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Hypernym for 'parallel' and 'antiparallel'
What is a word that includes both parallel and antiparallel ?
This bothers me all the time when I do my math or physics homework.
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Hypernym for "team member" and "contributor"
I work on a web app where the users make forecast of people.
They have to inform for each person with forecast if it's a "TEAM MEMBER" (i. e. the user is the manager of the resource) or a "...
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Hypernym of “move” and “copy” [closed]
Is there a verb to describe an action that can be either "move" and "copy", but in a single word/phrase?
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Term for someone who acquires an image
What is the best word to describe someone (a person) who acquires a digital image with any instrument (which could be a digital camera, microscope, telescope or any other instrument that will produce ...
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What is the hypernym of Earnings and Deduction? [duplicate]
If Earnings means an item that adds value to any stack. And, If Deductions means any item that subtracts value from any stack.
Then what single <word> can be an either Earning or Deduction? ...
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Single word which means 'suffix' or 'prefix'
I would like to get a single word which means suffix or prefix.
I am creating a database table, which has columns - 'suffix' and 'prefix.'
I would like to name the table in such a way that on seeing ...
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Hypernyms for directions
I am searching for hypernyms to summarise and differentiate between two groups words describing possible movement directions in a 2D space.
up, down, left, right
up-left, up-right, down-left, down-...
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Hypernym for cash flow directions [duplicate]
Is there a specific accounting-oriented hypernym for the directions of cash flow, i.e. debit and credit?
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Hypernym for "film" and "TV series" [duplicate]
I'm a software engineer and I need to write a class that will hold code common to a Film class and a Series class. I need to name this class with a hypernym for both.
For the moment, the solution we ...
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Is there a word/term for "verbs which indicate the underlying sentiment of a statement"?
Sorry, I'm not sure the best way to describe this, but hopefully you understand what I mean. Something like the result of the verb(to say) and any adverb(insultingly) = verb(to insult).
Another way ...
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Hypernym for reading a book and listening to an audiobook
I want to state that "I've read 10 books this year", but the books in question can be both dead-wood books and audiobooks. Is there a verb that works here in place of 'read'? Maybe something like '...
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Term for Only "Unbelieved Warner"
I'm looking for a word, phrase, or idiom to describe a person or fictional device.
In stories, especially horror and fantasy, there can be a character who is dismissed when they try to tell others ...
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Hypernym of "pair/dyad", "tetrad", "pentad"
Does the English language have a hypernym for words like "pair", "triad", "tetrad", and "pentad"? I'm not sure where to look.
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Hypernyms for "reactants" and "products"?
I’m looking for a hypernym of both reactant and product.
That is, I want to be able to say that both reactants and products are <unknown term>, but I don’t know what term applies to both.
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History and heritage = hypernym and hyponym?
I'm not quite sure how to phrase my question...but anyways.
History and heritage are often confused with one another.
"Heritage is owned by someone or some group; history is not. History is what ...
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Generalization of "player" and "team" in sports [duplicate]
In a programming context, I need to refer to players and teams interchangeably (in sports). I'm looking for a word - noun or adjective - that would be a generalization of those two terms. I can't seem ...
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