(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.
Heterotypic
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) The disassembly of the synthetase complex is consistent with the structural model of a heterotypic multienzyme complex and suggests that the complex formation is due to the specific intermolecular interactions among the synthetases.
(2) The building block of cytokeratin IFs is a heterotypic tetramer, consisting of two type I and two type II polypeptides arranged in pairs of laterally aligned coiled coils.
(3) The human intercellular adhesion molecules ICAM-1, ICAM-2 and their counter-receptors, the beta 2 or leukointegrins, mediate a variety of homotypic and heterotypic leukocyte and endothelial cell-cell adhesions central to immunocompetence.
(4) The results show that the information contained in this protein alone is sufficient to secure its sorting into a special type of vesicle in a heterotypic context, i.e., in the absence of other NE-specific components.
(5) Anti-RNPInd and anti-RNPNJ immunoglobulins also exhibited cross-reactivity by inhibiting transcription of heterotypic virions, but only to a much lesser degree than in the homotypic reaction.
(6) In this co-culture system, the heterotypic neuromuscular junctions show significant similarities previously to those observed in nerve-muscle tissues co-cultured from the same species as well as immature nerve-muscle synapses in situ.
(7) During hematogenous metastasis in certain model systems, platelets are also deposited at endothelial surfaces in heterotypic aggregates with tumor cells.
(8) Heterotypic staining, consisting of a diffused hazy fluorescence, was observed only at the highest concentrations of conjugate and not above the 1:10 dilution.
(9) The proliferative response to isolated virus proteins (VP) involved all three major capsid proteins (VP1, -2 and -3), although the proliferation of lymphocytes from heterotypically vaccinated cattle was due to VP3.
(10) However, multivariate logistic regression models demonstrated that only antibody titers to heterotypic rotaviruses were independently associated with protection against rotavirus disease.
(11) Both heterotypic (epithelial cells and fibroblasts together) and homotypic (highly enriched cultures of epithelial cells or fibroblasts alone) cell cultures were established.
(12) We previously demonstrated that a heterotypic complex of the two rat asialoglycoprotein receptor subunits was assembled during cell-free translation (Sawyer, J. T., and D. Doyle.
(13) The unique heat-resistant DI particle, with an RNA molecule corresponding to the 3' half of the viral genome, exhibited an inactivation target size of approximately 42% of its RNA molecule with respect to both homotypic and heterotypic interference.
(14) This lens-forming bias can be released with favourable culture conditions and by various heterotypic mesenchymes.
(15) Blocking this protein with specific antibodies inhibits the invasion of chicken heart fibroblasts by the tumour cells and normal heterotypic contact inhibition is restored.
(16) Virus neutralizing antibody was not a mediator of this heterotypic, virus-induced protective effect.
(17) One adenovirus type 40 monoclonal (5-8) and one adenovirus type 41 monoclonal (5-15) were found to react to high titre with homotypic but not heterotypic antigen.
(18) These results indicate that most heterotypic combinations are attenuated independently of the virulence of the parental viruses and therefore that the virulence of HSV is controlled multigenically.
(19) These findings indicate that proteins A1, C1, and C2 and most of the premessenger sequences occupy a peripheral position in intact monoparticles and that their homotypic and heterotypic associations are dependent on protein-RNA interactions.
(20) Cortico-pulvinar neurons were identified in one heterotypical cortical area (area 17) and in many homotypical areas in frontal (areas 45, 46, 11, 12), parietal (5, 7), occipital (18, 19) and temporal (20, 21, 22) lobes.