(n.) A word of opposite meaning; a counterterm; -- used as a correlative of synonym.
Example Sentences:
(1) These bipolar scales were derived from words previously judged by speech clinicians as descriptive of stutterers and antonyms of those words.
(2) First, the students were asked to circle one adjective from each of 28 antonym pairs, which was "most like" themselves.
(3) The negativity related to the expected antonym was almost nonexistent.
(4) A model of antonym learning is proposed that assigns a prepotent role to the second-to-emerge term in a contrastive pair.
(5) The article also attempts to categorize several examples of confusion suggestions by seven linguistic characteristics: (1) antonyms, (2) homonyms, (3) synonyms, (4) elaboration, (5) interruption, (6) echoing, and (7) uncommon words.
(6) Thirty-six younger and 36 older adults studied antonym pairs, half of which were intact and half of which were missing two adjacent interior letters requiring active encoding (generation) to complete the word.
(7) Hebrew-speaking subjects were presented with 42 pairs of Chinese characters designating antonymic concepts and were required to match them with their corresponding Hebrew words.
(8) The groups of words were arranged such that potential pairings reflected shared denotative (e.g., linked by being antonyms) or shared connotative meaning (e.g., linked at a metaphorical level).
(9) In further experiments, it is shown that primes in sentence contexts can produce facilitation of antonyms if they are strongly associated, or in the absence of association if the target must be named.
(10) Subjects described themselves, using an alphabetically ordered list of 191 trait adjectives, which included sets of synonyms and antonyms, half of each type more difficult than the other half.
(11) Each BS and BS' form contains 28 pairs of antonymic everyday adjectives, whose French translation has been checked by back-translation.
(12) The right shift was pronounced with the reading, orthographic error detection, and antonym conditions.
(13) When instead the target is an antonym (again of low association strength), there is no priming effect; lexical decision is facilitated only when the prime word is presented in isolation.
(14) Spelling by choosing the appropriate letters with his left hand, he could process nouns, verbs, rhymes, antonyms, and superordinate concepts.
(15) Might I propose an antonym: atheophobia, a term for those who fear ideas based upon reason and rationality?
(16) Nina Power : Being misogynist, acting sexist In a moment of idle curiosity a good few years ago, I wondered whether there was an antonym for misogyny.
(17) They are about “vocabulary” (synonyms and antonyms).
(18) In the word-antonym (W-A) and the word-nonantonym (W-NA) conditions, both S1 and S2 were words.
(19) The subjects' task was to think of the antonym to S1 and respond as fast as possible after the presentation of S2 by pressing a "YES" button if S2 was an antonym to S1 (in the W-A trials), or a "NO" button if S2 was not an antonym to S1 (in the W-NA trials).
(20) Although the provision of definitions served to increase consistency (especially for the difficult antonyms), it did not decrease the range of consistency values across either synonym or antonym pairs.
Cookbook
Definition:
(n.) A book of directions and receipts for cooking; a cookery book.
Example Sentences:
(1) The frying of some common food items following cookbook recipes also emitted mutagenic aerosol particles but the emitted activity was less than that in the pork experiment.
(2) Cookery programmes bloat the television schedules, cookbooks strain the bookshop tables, celebrity chefs hawk their own brands of weird mince pies ( Heston Blumenthal ) or bronze-moulded pasta ( Jamie Oliver ) in the supermarkets, and cooks in super-expensive restaurants from Chicago to Copenhagen are the subject of hagiographic profiles in serious magazines and newspapers.
(3) He added that the best cookbooks are often those whose pages are stuck together with sauce, and questioned how the iPhone would deal with the hands-on, often messy, nature of cooking.
(4) Kitchen Cabinet is now in its fifth season so a cookbook spin-off was bound to happen sooner or later.
(5) All These Things That I've Done by The Killers Record: Tangled Up in Blue Book: The River Cottage Cookbook by Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall Luxury: A crate of Scottish whisky.
(6) Last summer, I spent several days in the British Library reading austerity cookbooks: survival manuals for housewives who had to cope with the rationing that would outlast the war by several years (butter, cheese, margarine, cooking fats and meat did not come off the ration until 1954).
(7) US food writer, Mark Bittman’s The VB6 Cookbook also demonstrates how to cut back in the day without giving up meat completely.
(8) Jane Baxter, who is writing a vegetarian cookbook for restaurant chain Leon, agrees: "Avoid water.
(9) Writing the cookbook was “an exercise in shared memory”, says Crabb.
(10) Big Penguin sellers were cookbooks by celebrity chef Jamie Oliver and Kathryn Stockett's The Help.
(11) From Polpo: A Venetian Cookbook (Of Sorts) by Russell Norman (Bloomsbury, £25).
(12) In truth it is less a cookbook than a cultural over view of the entire Jewish diaspora, with appropriate recipes attached.
(13) Cookbook conversion factors should be revised so that condoms (100 per CYP) credit is reduced and IUDs (2.5 CYP per IUD) is increased; CYP factors need to be developed for Norplant and Lactational Amenorrhea Method (LAM).
(14) Well-established rich list millionaires such as Jamie and Jools Oliver saw their worth go up by £90m to £240m, ranking them at 396, as the celebrity chef's restaurant chain, TV appearances, cookbook sales and Jool's childrenswear range continued to pay dividends.
(15) Email from Roger Kirkby: Where do I send "the gluten-free" cookbook to?
(16) In many cases these cell types were selected because there was a great deal of preexisting literature on the cell type (i.e., "cookbook" methods of transfection for the cell) or the cell was simply being carried in the lab at the time the effort was made to express a biopharmaceutical product.
(17) It should be emphasized that no clinical test is 100% sensitive or specific, and attention must be paid to chronological discrepancies in the patient's presentation and "cookbook"-type approaches to evaluation should be avoided.
(18) Production of a cookbook can thus be a focal point for involving food industry, restaurants and institutional kitchens in a community intervention program aiming at a change of dietary habits.
(19) I'd already written two cookbooks in French by then, and I knew from experience that there was a lot of food waste.
(20) While ostensibly a cookbook, It's All Good is a cookbook characterised by a complete fear of food.