Dictionary that finds other words instead of certain words.

by Anonymous 14 years ago

There is a difference between a definition and a synonym.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

The dictionaries at my school have definitions and under that there is one or two synonyms for the word...

by Anonymous 13 years ago

That's obvious, Is there a synonym for chair, table, dictionary, bed etc.? Objects don't have synonyms.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Dictionary has a synonym: lexicon!

by Anonymous 13 years ago

A dictionary is a book of alphabetically listed words in a specific language, with definitions, etymologies, pronunciations, and other information In linguistics, the lexicon of a language is its vocabulary, including its words and expressions. More formally, it is a language's inventory of lexemes (it roughly corresponds to a set of forms taken by a single word). Each human being possesses a mental lexicon (which is that person's knowledge of vocabulary). The most essential difference between the two is that in a dictionary you only find the undeclined or unconjugated form of the headword, while in the lexicon you find all the possible forms of a word (in the singular, in the plural, the adjective form...)

by Anonymous 13 years ago

stool, armchair; stand, dining table, dinner table; lexicon (thanks treldman!); cot, mattress, bunkbed.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Some of those have a different meaning than the original word.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

yes, but run and sprint have different meanings. as with sports and athletics. hell, even playstation and xbox. they are still synonyms, even if they are slightly different.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Well sports and athletics are pretty much the same. But you wouldn't say "I'm going to go play on my Playstation" if you have an X-box. A synonym is something interchangeable.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

yes, but you also wouldnt say im going to go for a sprint if you are going for a run unless you were going at top speed. it is interchangeable, just not all the time. if you were writing a story and one character had a playstation, you would make the other have an xbox if you didnt want to keep using playstation or console

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Synonym: "a word having the same or nearly the same meaning as another in the language, as joyful, elated, glad. " -Dictionary.com I don't play video games, but I think a lot of people would argue that Playstations and X-boxes are different.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

they both have similar intestines, both are used for gaming and movies, both are considered high quality consoles, both have similar controllers, etc. i agree with you, they are different. but compare one to a computer and they are a lot more close than you think. the main difference is what is played (how a word is used), and the company making it (tone). bare basics, they are very similar consoles and i think a lot of people would agree, despite a few differences

by Anonymous 13 years ago

I honestly know nothing about video games. I can't play Mario Kart without falling off the edge or going into a wall. But a lot of the other examples you gave don't make that much sense either. If I don't have a bunkbed, I would //definitely// not say, "I'm getting new sheets for my bunkbed!"

by Anonymous 13 years ago

all bunkbeds are beds, but not all beds are bunkbeds. if i have a bunkbed i would definitly not say "I'm getting new sheets for my bunkbed!". i would just say "I'm getting new sheets for my bed!". a word doesnt have to exactly match to be a synonym, they just have to be similar

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Still, I think that objects don't really have synonyms. I think if there's a pretty big difference between the words and they don't make sense if used in one another's place, they aren't synonyms.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Stool and armchair are different types of chairs, but they are very different, If i said picture a stool and picture an armchair, would you think of the same thing? Similarly with cot, mattress and bunk-bed because they're types of beds. It's like saying the synonym of lion is leopard. Next thing you know a wooden spoon ad a cupboard are synonyms because they are both made of wood. As for dinner and dining table, to have dinner means to dine, the root word is the same, different functions of the same word are not synonyms otherwise 'to run' and 'running' would be synonyms. I have already explained lexicon.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

ok. you seem to not understand the concept of a synonym. can you say stool instead of chair? yes. can you say stool instead of armchair? only if it is a stool. a stool is a synonym of chair. that is correct. i never said that armchair and stool are synonyms, i said armchair and chair, or stool and chair. same goes for the rest of your speech

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Types of chairs are not synonyms of the word chair. Joyous is a synonym for happy and elated is also a synonym for happy, therefore joyous is a synonym for elated, If you say I'm happy/joyous/elated it's the same thing. So technically you're saying that an armchair, stool, electric chair, lawn chair etc are all synonyms because if they're all synonyms of chair, then they mean the same thing hence they should be synonyms of each other, and it is very different if you say i sat in an armchair or i sat in an electric chair. Therefore stool and chair are NOT synonyms Hence Proved (in the most mathematical way possible)

by Anonymous 13 years ago

i never said armchair and electric chair were synonyms, and electric chair isnt a synonym for chair in the first place (maybe death chair) so i dont know where you got that. stool and armchair arent synonyms for each other, but they are for chair. your logic is basically assuming that every word is a synonym for each other. you are immensly handicapped if you dont think stool is a synonym for chair because it doesnt work both ways. okay, let me try it like this: gray, the NEUTRAL colour, can also be expressed by using silver, lead, iron, etc. so you think that neutral and gray cannot be synonyms because neutral and silver are not. explain that to me please

by Anonymous 13 years ago

You're calling me handicapped, I guess I need to explain irony to you next. Firstly colors are not objects. Lead and Iron are not colors on they're own but a mix of silver and gray, hence there are various shades of lead pencils. Gray is a neutral color, but they are not synonyms because white, beige, brown, gray, light brown are also neutral colors, so context of comparison important. Go ask a parent, friend(if you have any) to draw a person who is joyous and a person who is elated, then ask them to draw a stool and to draw a chair. P.S silver is also considered a neutral color.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Synonymicon. 8th grade spelling word right there. You fail. In the nicest way possible of course. :)

by Anonymous 13 years ago