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Key: "S:" = Show Synset (semantic) relations, "W:" = Show Word (lexical) relations

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S: (n) content word, open-class word (a word to which an independent meaning can be assigned)

S: (n) headword, head word (a content word that can be qualified by a modifier)
S: (n) noun (a content word that can be used to refer to a person, place, thing, quality, or action)

S: (n) collective noun (a noun that is singular in form but refers to a group of people or things)
S: (n) mass noun (a noun that does not form plurals)
S: (n) count noun (a noun that forms plurals)
S: (n) generic noun (a noun that does not specify either masculine or feminine gender)
S: (n) proper noun, proper name (a noun that denotes a particular thing; usually capitalized)
S: (n) common noun (a noun that denotes any or all members of a class)

S: (n) gerund (a noun formed from a verb (such as the `-ing' form of an English verb when used as a noun))

S: (n) adnoun (an adjective used as a noun) "`meek' in `blessed are the meek' is an adnoun"

S: (n) verb (a content word that denotes an action, occurrence, or state of existence)

S: (n) reflexive verb (a verb whose agent performs an action that is directed at the agent) "the sentence `he washed' has a reflexive verb"; "`perjure' is a reflexive verb because you cannot perjure anyone but yourself"
S: (n) copula, copulative, linking verb (an equating verb (such as `be' or `become') that links the subject with the complement of a sentence)
S: (n) frequentative (a verb form that serves to express frequent repetition of an action)

S: (n) modifier, qualifier (a content word that qualifies the meaning of a noun or verb)

S: (n) intensifier, intensive (a modifier that has little meaning except to intensify the meaning it modifies) "`up' in `finished up' is an intensifier"; "`honestly' in `I honestly don't know' is an intensifier"
S: (n) adjective (a word that expresses an attribute of something)

S: (n) descriptive adjective, qualifying adjective (an adjective that ascribes to its noun the value of an attribute of that noun (e.g., `a nervous person' or `a musical speaking voice'))
S: (n) relational adjective, classifying adjective (an adjective that classifies its noun (e.g., `a nervous disease' or `a musical instrument'))

S: (n) positive, positive degree (the primary form of an adjective or adverb; denotes a quality without qualification, comparison, or relation to increase or diminution)
S: (n) comparative, comparative degree (the comparative form of an adjective or adverb) "`faster' is the comparative of the adjective `fast'"; "`less famous' is the comparative degree of the adjective `famous'"; "`more surely' is the comparative of the adverb `surely'"
S: (n) superlative, superlative degree (the superlative form of an adjective or adverb) "`fastest' is the superlative of the adjective `fast'"; "`least famous' is the superlative degree of the adjective `famous'"; "`most surely' is the superlative of the adverb `surely'"

S: (n) positive, positive degree (the primary form of an adjective or adverb; denotes a quality without qualification, comparison, or relation to increase or diminution)
S: (n) comparative, comparative degree (the comparative form of an adjective or adverb) "`faster' is the comparative of the adjective `fast'"; "`less famous' is the comparative degree of the adjective `famous'"; "`more surely' is the comparative of the adverb `surely'"
S: (n) superlative, superlative degree (the superlative form of an adjective or adverb) "`fastest' is the superlative of the adjective `fast'"; "`least famous' is the superlative degree of the adjective `famous'"; "`most surely' is the superlative of the adverb `surely'"
S: (n) adverbial (a word or group of words function as an adverb)

S: (n) dangling modifier, misplaced modifier (a word or phrase apparently modifying an unintended word because of its placement in a sentence: e.g., `when young' in `when young, circuses appeal to all of us')

S: (n) dangling participle (a participle (usually at the beginning of a sentence) apparently modifying a word other than the word intended: e.g., `flying across the country' in `flying across the country the Rockies came into view')