What's the difference between antonym and deserve?

Antonym


Definition:

  • (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.

Deserve


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To earn by service; to be worthy of (something due, either good or evil); to merit; to be entitled to; as, the laborer deserves his wages; a work of value deserves praise.
  • (v. t.) To serve; to treat; to benefit.
  • (v. i.) To be worthy of recompense; -- usually with ill or with well.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In a Bloomberg article last week, for example, one Stanford student compared women who get raped to unlocked bicycles : ‘Do I deserve to have my bike stolen if I leave it unlocked on the quad?’ [Chris] Herries, 22, said.
  • (2) The aim of this paper is to demonstrate that the problems which arise from simultaneously developing regulatory and competitive approaches to health care cost containment can be solved, if recognized, and that those problems deserve more systematic investigation than they have so far received.
  • (3) I also decided that the Kushner-Harvard relationship deserved special attention.
  • (4) Prior exposure and subsequent reactions can, however, take a wide variety of forms, and blanket avoidance may prevent many deserving patients from being transplanted.
  • (5) Enright said: “We call on the home secretary and chair of IICSA [the independent inquiry into child sexual abuse] to engage actively and urgently to find a way forward that secures the confidence of survivors and provides the inquiry’s legal team with the resources and support they need to deliver justice and truth that survivors deserve.” Stein said his clients were “deeply disatisfied” with aspects of how the inquiry had been conducted but called for Emmerson to stay, adding: “I urge the home secretary to seek to find a way in which his valuable contribution can be maintained”.
  • (6) His dedication and professionalism is world class and he deserves all the recognition he has received to date.
  • (7) Such an explanation not only remains vague and speculative but deserves criticism also for being incomplete.
  • (8) To test this hypothesis 30 Wistar rats were subjected to laparotomy and colonic resection and treated with 5-Fluorouracil or Mitomycin C. The bursting strength of the abdominal scars and the colonic anastomotic bursting pressure revealed some interference in the rats treated with 5-Fluorouracil (Student's t test P less than 0.05) but none in the case of Mitomycin C. This preliminary study deserves to be followed up.
  • (9) No one deserves to walk out of the theatre feeling scared, humiliated or rejected.
  • (10) These findings established that the cellular immunological response can be affected by specific inhibition of polyamine biosynthesis and deserve further consideration both under in vitro and in vivo conditions.
  • (11) The fact that sulfinate salts show activity, both ip and po, suggests that the -SO2Na moiety deserves more attention in medicinal chemistry.
  • (12) When you score a hat trick in the first 16 minutes of a World Cup Final with tens of millions of people watching across the world, essentially ending the match and clinching the tournament before most players worked up a sweat or Japan had a chance to throw in the towel, your status as a sports legend is forever secure – and any favorable comparisons thrown your way are deserved.
  • (13) And here they are, giving a certain Irish ode the treatment it deserves.
  • (14) According to the striker in question, the Villa manager received more than he deserved.
  • (15) In the evolution of inflammatory diseases of adnexae algodysmenorrhea and disturbed menstrual rhythm deserves special attention to the clinical interpretation and to the formation of diagnostic hypothesis.
  • (16) The two groups of actors in this new development--the risk assessors and the strain designers--need the same platform of understanding from the field of microbial ecology, and a number of specific areas which may now be approached by modern technology deserve particular attention.
  • (17) I believe that this show, this story, deserves a life.” Cattrall was in Cannes to promote the show, which is currently being sold to broadcasters.
  • (18) He chose to be a man, not an artist, in this painting, and to claim no dignity except that which everyone deserves.
  • (19) The effect of reversing ventricular hypertrophy in patients with and without coronary disease deserves further study.
  • (20) Having always voted Conservative, he says that Labour's increasing doubts about HS2 suggest that they may be more deserving of his vote, something that clearly feels very strange indeed.