simile
syncrisis
i.e.
id est
ie
metaphor
figura etymologica
oxymoron
figuratively
flower
ploce
epanadiplosis
counteraddress
mimesis
dilogy
metalepsis
language
figurativeness
read
super-token
meiosis
synecdoche
figurative
demegoric
should
-logue
substantive
hypobole
hendiadys
would
all
parse
metatextuality
tautegorical
trope
making known
informing
chatty
clarifier
-log
smack
such
talk about
endophora
guillemet
interpolate
parallel
noise
quotation
semantic field
metapragmatics
spoken
talk the talk
diallage
asteismus
eidolopoeia
anteposition
lard
rhetorize
oration
distinctive
nominal
encomium
-ety
multivalenced
word
liken
verbal creation
compare
imaginative comparison
perlocution
variant
word of mouth
you
phonic
antithesis
descriptionist
rhetorical
comparand
introduce
discourse
imagery
synonym
parlance
ditto
tone
complementer
regimen
copy
tell
coarticulate
contour
breviloquence
eh
figurative
demegoric
tautegorical
chatty
spoken
distinctive
multivalenced
phonic
descriptionist
rhetorical
i.e.
id est
ie
figuratively
all
simile
syncrisis
metaphor
figura etymologica
oxymoron
flower
ploce
epanadiplosis
counteraddress
mimesis
dilogy
metalepsis
language
figurativeness
super-token
meiosis
synecdoche
hypobole
hendiadys
metatextuality
trope
making known
informing
clarifier
such
endophora
guillemet
noise
quotation
semantic field
metapragmatics
diallage
asteismus
eidolopoeia
anteposition
oration
nominal
encomium
word
verbal creation
imaginative comparison
perlocution
variant
word of mouth
antithesis
comparand
discourse
imagery
synonym
parlance
tone
complementer
regimen
copy
contour
breviloquence
read
should
substantive
would
parse
smack
talk about
interpolate
parallel
talk the talk
lard
rhetorize
liken
compare
introduce
tell
coarticulate
noun
- A figure of speech; an ornament of style.
- Something that flows, such as a river.
- A reproductive structure in angiosperms (flowering plants), often conspicuously colourful and typically including sepals, petals, and either or both stamens and/or a pistil.
- A cut flower; the stem of a flowering plant with the blossom or blossoms attached, used for decoration, as a gift, etc.
- Of plants, a state of bearing blooms.
- Ornamental type used chiefly for borders around pages, cards, etc.
- A delicate, fragile, or oversensitive person.
- The vulva, especially the labia majora.
- The best examples or representatives of a group.
- The best state of things; the prime.
- A colorful, conspicuous structure associated with angiosperms, frequently scented and attracting various insects, and which may or may not be used for sexual reproduction.
- A plant that bears flowers, especially a plant that is small and lacks wood.
verb
noun
- The particular words used in a speech or a passage of text.
- A computer language; a machine language.
- A body of sounds, signs and/or signals by which animals communicate, and by which plants are sometimes also thought to communicate.
- A body of words, and set of methods of combining them (called a grammar), understood by a community and used as a form of communication.
- Profanity.
- A sublanguage: the slang of a particular community or jargon of a particular specialist field.
- Manner of expression.
- The ability to communicate using words.
- The expression of thought (the communication of meaning) in a specified way; that which communicates something, as language does.
- A languet, a flat plate in or below the flue pipe of an organ.
verb
intj
verb
- To speak aloud words or other information that is written. (often construed with a to phrase or an indirect object)
- To fetch data from (a storage medium, etc.).
- To be able to hear what another person is saying over a radio connection.
- To read work(s) written by (a named author).
- Used after a euphemism to introduce the intended, more blunt meaning of a term.
- To imagine sequences of potential moves and responses without actually placing stones.
- To call attention to the flaws of (someone) in either a playful, a taunting, or an insulting way.
- To consist of certain text.
- Synonyms: interpret, make out, make sense of, understand, scan
- To look at and interpret letters or other information that is written.
- To make a special study of, as by perusing textbooks.
- To observe and comprehend (a displayed signal).
- Of text, etc., to be interpreted or read in a particular way.
- To substitute (a corrected piece of text in place of an erroneous one); used to introduce an emendation of a text.
- To recognise (someone) as being transgender.
- To interpret, or infer a meaning, significance, thought, intention, etc., from.
noun
- A person's interpretation or impression of something.
- Something to be read; a written work.
- A reading or an act of reading, especially of an actor's part of a play or a piece of stored data.
- The identification of a specific sequence of genes in a genome or bases in a nucleic acid string
- An instance of reading (“calling attention to someone's flaws; a taunt or insult”).
adj
- Of use as a metaphor, simile, metonym or other figure of speech, as opposed to literal; using figures; as when saying that someone who eats more than they should is a pig or like a pig.
- With many figures of speech.
- Emblematic, symbolic; representative, exemplative
- representing forms recognisable in life and clearly derived from real object sources, in contrast to abstract art.
- Metaphorically so called.
verb
- Used to express what the speaker would do in another person's situation, as a means of giving a suggestion or recommendation.
- Will be likely to (become or do something); indicates a degree of possibility or probability that the stated thing will happen or be true in the future.
- Indicates that something is expected to have happened or to be the case now.
- Used to express a conditional outcome.
- With verbs such as 'see' or 'hear', usually in the second person, used to point out something remarkable in either a good or bad way.
- To make a statement of what ought to be true, as opposed to reality.
- Used to impart a tentative, conjectural or polite nuance.
- Simple past tense of shall.
- In questions, asks what is correct, proper, desirable, etc.
- Used to issue an instruction (traditionally seen as carrying less force of authority than alternatives such as 'shall' or 'must').
- Used to give advice or opinion that an action is, or would have been, beneficial or desirable.
- Used to form a variant of the present subjunctive, expressing a state or action that is hypothetical, potential, mandated, etc.
noun
verb
noun
adj
- Constituting the substance of content rather than its style, and thus always nontrivial.
- Of or pertaining to a substantive.
- actually and legally held, as distinct from an acting, temporary or honorary rank or appointment
- Having substance; enduring; solid; firm; substantial.
- of the essence or essential element of a thing.
- applying to essential legal principles and rules of right.
- Depending on itself; independent.
- of a dye that does not need the use of a mordant to be made fast to that which is being dyed
verb
- Used to express what the speaker would do in another person's situation, as a means of giving a suggestion or recommendation.
- Used as the auxiliary of the simple conditional modality, indicating a state or action that is conditional on another.
- Was or were determined to; indicating someone's insistence upon doing something.
- Used to; was or were habitually accustomed to; indicating an action in the past that happened repeatedly or commonly.
- Could naturally have been expected to (given the tendencies of someone's character etc.).
- Without explicit condition, or with loose or vague implied condition, indicating a hypothetical or imagined state or action.
- Used to express the speaker's belief or assumption.
- Used interrogatively to express a polite request; are (you) willing to …?
- Used to form the "anterior future", or "future in the past", indicating a futurity relative to a past time.
- Suggesting conditionality or potentiality in order to express a sense of politeness, tentativeness, indirectness, hesitancy, uncertainty, etc.
noun
adv
noun
adj
pron
- The only thing(s).
- Used after who, what, where, how and similar words, either without changing their meaning, or indicating that one expects that they cover more than one element, e.g. that "who all attended" is more than one person. (Some dialects only allow this to follow some words and not others.)
- Everything.
- Everyone.
det
verb
- To resolve (a sentence, etc.) into its elements, pointing out the several parts of speech, and their relation to each other by agreement or government; to analyze and describe grammatically.
- To split (a file or other input) into pieces of data that can be easily manipulated or stored.
- To examine closely; to scrutinize.
- To resolve (a string of code or text) into its elements to determine if it conforms to a particular grammar.
- Of a string of code or text, sentence, etc.: to conform to rules of grammar, to be syntactically valid.
noun
noun
- A figure of speech in which words or phrases are used with a nonliteral or figurative meaning, such as a metaphor.
- Any of the ten arguments used in skepticism to refute dogmatism.
- A short cadence at the end of the melody in some early music.
- An addition (of dialogue, song, music, etc.) to a standard element of the liturgy, serving as an embellishment.
- A particular instance of a property (such as the specific redness of a rose), as contrasted with a universal.
- A cantillation pattern, or one of the marks that represents it.
- Something recurring across a genre or type of art or literature, such as the ‘mad scientist’ of horror movies or the use of the phrase ‘once upon a time’ as an introduction to fairy tales; a motif.
- A pair of complementary hexachords in twelve-tone technique.
- A tangent space meeting a quartic surface in a conic.
verb
verb
- To indicate or suggest something; used with of.
- To strike a child (usually on the buttocks) as a form of discipline. (normal U.S. and Canadian term spank)
- To slap or hit someone.
- To have a particular taste; used with of.
- To wetly separate the lips, making a noise, after tasting something or in expectation of a treat.
- To get the flavor of.
- To kiss with a close compression of the lips, so as to make a sound when they separate.
- To make a smacking sound.
noun
- A group of jellyfish.
- A sharp blow; a slap. See also: spank.
- The sound of a loud kiss.
- A distinct flavor, especially if slight.
- A small sailing vessel, commonly rigged as a sloop, used chiefly in the coasting and fishing trade and often called a fishing smack
- A slight trace of something; a smattering.
- A form of fried potato; a scallop.
- A quick, sharp noise, as of the lips when suddenly separated, or of a whip.
- Heroin.
adv
verb
- To introduce (something) between other things; especially to insert (possibly spurious) words into a text.
- During the course of processing some data, and in response to a directive in that data, to fetch data from a different source and process it in-line along with the original data.
- To estimate the value of a function between two tabulated points.
verb
- To compare or liken something to something else.
- To produce or adduce as a parallel.
- To equal; to match; to correspond to.
- To construct or place something parallel to something else.
- Of a process etc: To be analogous to something else.
- To make to conform to something else in character, motive, aim, etc.
- Of a path etc: To be parallel to something else.
adj
- Having the same overall direction; the comparison is indicated with "to".
- Either not intersecting, or coinciding.
- Equally distant from one another at all points.
- Involving the processing of multiple tasks at the same time.
noun
- A character consisting of two parallel vertical lines, used in the text to direct attention to a similarly marked note in the margin or at the foot of a page.
- A line of latitude.
- One of a set of parallel lines.
- One of a series of long trenches constructed before a besieged fortress, by the besieging force, as a cover for troops supporting the attacking batteries. They are roughly parallel to the line of outer defenses of the fortress.
- Direction conformable to that of another line.
- An arrangement of electrical components such that a current flows along two or more paths; see in parallel.
- Something identical or similar in essential respects.
- A comparison made; elaborate tracing of similarity.
adv
noun
- Speech that is suggestive of an attitude or opinion.
- Various sounds, usually unwanted or unpleasant.
- Sound or signal generated by random fluctuations.
- Any sound.
- Any part of a signal or data that reduces the clarity, precision, or quality of the desired output.
- A genre of rock music that uses static and other non-musical sounds, also influenced by art rock.
- The measured level of variation in gene expression among cells, regardless of source, within a supposedly identical population.
- Rumour or complaint.
- Unwanted fuss or bustle; useless activity.
verb
adj
- Distinguishing a particular sense of word.
- Distinguished, being distinct in character or position.
- Distinguishing, used to or enabling the distinguishing of some thing.
- Discriminating, discerning, having the ability to distinguish between things.
- Characteristic, typical.
- Used to separate clauses in place of stops.
noun
noun
- A part of speech that shares features with nouns and adjectives. (Depending on the language, it may comprise nouns, adjectives, possibly numerals, pronouns, and participles.)
- A person listed in the Police National Computer database as having been convicted, cautioned or recently arrested.
- A number (usually natural) used like a name; a numeric code or identifier. (See nominal number on Wikipedia.)
- A noun or word group that functions as part of a noun phrase.
adj
- Without adjustment to remove the effects of inflation.
- Of, resembling, relating to, or consisting of a name or names.
- Of a species, the species name without consideration of whether it is a junior synonym or in reality consists of more than one biological species.
- Insignificantly small.
- Of or relating to the presumed or approximate value, rather than the actual value.
- Assigned to or bearing a person's name.
- Of, relating to, or being the amount or face value of a sum of money or a stock certificate, for example, and not the purchasing power or market value.
- Existing in name only.
- Of or relating to a noun or word group that functions as a noun.
- Of, relating to, or being the rate of interest or return without adjustment for compounding or inflation.
- Having values whose order is insignificant.
- Of or relating to nominalism.
- According to plan or design.
noun
- A general category of oratory.
- The eighth exercise in the progymnasmata series.
- A method within rhetorical pedagogy.
- Warm praise, especially a formal expression of such praise; a tribute.
- A genre of literature that included five elements: prologue, birth and upbringing, acts of the person's life, comparisons used to praise the subject, and an epilogue.
noun
- Something that someone said; a comment, utterance; speech.
- An order; a request or instruction; an expression of will.
- A unit of text equivalent to five characters and one space.
- A sequence of letters, characters, or sounds, considered as a discrete entity, though it does not necessarily belong to a language or have a meaning
- The smallest discrete unit of spoken language with a particular meaning, composed of one or more phonemes and one or more morphemes
- The fact or act of speaking, as opposed to taking action. .
- A minor reprimand.
- Communication from God; the message of the Christian gospel; the Bible, Scripture.
- News; tidings
- A fixed-size group of bits handled as a unit by a machine and which can be stored in or retrieved from a typical register (so that it has the same size as such a register).
- A watchword or rallying cry, a verbal signal (even when consisting of multiple words).
- A brief discussion or conversation.
- A promise; an oath or guarantee.
- See words.
- The smallest discrete unit of written language with a particular meaning, composed of one or more letters or symbols and one or more morphemes
- A discrete, meaningful unit of language approved by an authority or native speaker (compare non-word).
- The smallest unit of language that has a particular meaning and can be expressed by itself; the smallest discrete, meaningful unit of language. (contrast morpheme.)
- A finite string that is not a command or operator.
- A group element, expressed as a product of group elements.
- Logos, Christ.
verb
- To conjure with a word.
- To say or write (something) using particular words; to phrase (something).
- To ply or overpower with words.
intj
verb
- To declare two things to be similar in some respect ["to compare X to Y"].
- To form the three degrees of comparison of (an adjective).
- To be similar (often used in the negative).
- To assess the similarities and differences between two or more things ["to compare X with Y"]. Having made the comparison of X with Y, one might have found it similar to Y or different from Y.
noun
det
- Used before epithets, describing the person being addressed, for emphasis.
- The individual or group spoken or written to.
verb
noun
pron
- Anyone, one; an unspecified individual or group of individuals (as subject or object).
- (To) yourselves, (to) yourself.
- The people spoken to or written to, as a subject. (Replacing ye.)
- The person spoken to or written to, as an object. (Replacing thee; originally as a mark of respect.)
- The people spoken, or written to, as an object.
- The person spoken to or written to, as a subject. (Originally as a mark of respect.)
noun
- Rhetorical decoration in writing or speaking; vivid descriptions presenting or suggesting images of sensible objects; figures in discourse.
- Imitation work.
- Images in general, or en masse.
- Unreal show; imitation; appearance.
- The work of the imagination or fancy; false ideas; imaginary phantasms.
- The work of one who makes images or visible representation of objects.
noun
- A word or phrase with a meaning that is the same as, or very similar to, another word or phrase.
- An alternative (often shorter) name defined for an object in a database.
- Any name for a taxon, usually a validly published, formally accepted one, but often also an unpublished name.
- A word whose meaning is the same as that of another word.
- Any of the formal names for a taxon, including the valid name (i.e. the senior synonym).
intj
adv
verb
noun
- The ditto mark, 〃; a symbol, represented by two apostrophes, inverted commas, or quotation marks (" "), indicating that the item preceding is to be repeated.
- That which was stated before, the aforesaid, the above, the same, likewise.
- A suit of clothes of the same colour throughout.
- A duplicate or copy of a document, particularly one created by a spirit duplicator.
- A copy; an imitation.
noun
- The manner in which speech or writing is expressed.
- The quality of being respectable or admirable.
- The pitch of a word that distinguishes a difference in meaning, for example in Chinese.
- The character of a sound, especially the timbre of an instrument or voice.
- A specific pitch.
- (in a Gregorian chant) A recitational melody.
- The state of a living body or of any of its organs or parts in which the functions are healthy and performed with due vigor.
- a gun
- The shade or quality of a colour.
- The favourable effect of a picture produced by the combination of light and shade, or of colours.
- The definition and firmness of a muscle or organ; see also: tonus.
- (in the diatonic scale) An interval of a major second.
- Normal tension or responsiveness to stimuli.
- The general character, atmosphere, mood, or vibe (of a situation, place, etc.).
pron
verb
verb
- To convey by speech; to say.
- To order; to direct, to say to someone.
- To instruct or inform.
- To narrate.
- To reveal.
- To reveal information in prose through outright expository statement -- contrasted with show
- To count, reckon, or enumerate.
- To have an effect, especially a noticeable one; to be apparent, to be demonstrated.
- To inform someone in authority about a wrongdoing.
- To discern, notice, identify or distinguish.
- To be revealed.
- To use (beads or similar objects) as an aid to prayer.
noun
- A private message to an individual in a chat room; a whisper.
- A hill or mound, originally and especially in the Middle East, over or consisting of the ruins of ancient settlements.
- A reflexive, often habitual behavior, especially one occurring in a context that often features attempts at deception by persons under psychological stress (such as a poker game or police interrogation), that reveals information that the person exhibiting the behavior is attempting to withhold.
verb
- To assimilate the place of articulation of one speech sound to that of an adjacent speech sound.
- To articulate two things simultaneously.
- To unite to form an articulation (joint)
- To articulate a speech sound at two different places of articulation simultaneously, as in the labiovelar approximant [w].
noun
- a speech sound which behaves as a single segment, but which makes an internal transition from one quality, place, or manner to another.
- A line on a map or chart delineating those points which have the same altitude or other plotted quantity: a contour line or isopleth.
- An outline, boundary or border, usually of curved shape.
- A general description giving the most important points.
verb
intj
- An interjection used to ascertain the continued attention of an individual addressed by the speaker.
- Expressing apprehension following or preceding a reasoning or excuse; uh.
- Used as a tag question, to emphasise what goes before or to request that the listener express an opinion about what has been said.
- In isolation, a request for repetition or clarification of what has just been said; compare what, pardon.
- In isolation, expressing surprise or confusion; compare wha, huh, za.
- Expressing apathy or lack of enthusiasm; meh.
adj
verb
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