WordNet Search - 3.1
-
WordNet home page
-
Glossary
-
Help
Word to search for:
Display Options:
(Select option to change)
Hide Example Sentences
Hide Glosses
Show Frequency Counts
Show Database Locations
Show Lexical File Info
Show Lexical File Numbers
Show Sense Keys
Show Sense Numbers
Show all
Hide all
Key: "S:" = Show Synset (semantic) relations, "W:" = Show Word (lexical) relations
Display options for sense: (gloss) "an example sentence"
Noun
S:
(n)
aphaeresis
,
apheresis
((linguistics) omission at the beginning of a word as in `coon' for `raccoon' or `till' for `until')
domain category
S:
(n)
linguistics
(the scientific study of language)
direct hypernym
/
inherited hypernym
/
sister term
S:
(n)
omission
,
deletion
(any process whereby sounds or words are left out of spoken words or phrases)
S:
(n)
linguistic process
(a process involved in human language)
direct hyponym
/
full hyponym
domain category
direct hypernym
/
inherited hypernym
/
sister term
derivationally related form
S:
(n)
apheresis
,
pheresis
(a procedure in which blood is drawn and separated into its components by dialysis; some are retained and the rest are returned to the donor by transfusion)