(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.
Setter
Definition:
(n.) One who, or that which, sets; -- used mostly in composition with a noun, as typesetter; or in combination with an adverb, as a setter on (or inciter), a setter up, a setter forth.
(n.) A hunting dog of a special breed originally derived from a cross between the spaniel and the pointer. Modern setters are usually trained to indicate the position of game birds by standing in a fixed position, but originally they indicated it by sitting or crouching.
(n.) One who hunts victims for sharpers.
(n.) One who adapts words to music in composition.
(n.) An adornment; a decoration; -- with off.
(n.) A shallow seggar for porcelain.
(v. t.) To cut the dewlap (of a cow or an ox), and to insert a seton, so as to cause an issue.
Example Sentences:
(1) Coactivation of the serotonin-containing cells and command fibers, or inhibition of the serotonin-containing cells while activating command fibers, however, shows that the cells act as "gain-setters," modulating the interaction between command inputs and motoneuron outputs.
(2) In the Red setter an ovarian cortex had developed in mosaic gonads with 8 and 10% of Y-bearing cells.
(3) Mark Carney is a jet-setter who worked for the global Goldman Sachs.
(4) Using brains of English setter dogs afflicted with a form of this disorder, the autofluorescent storage granules have been isolated and subjected to extraction with chloroform-methanol.
(5) We had studied cerebrospinal fluid monoamine metabolite concentrations and glucose metabolism in 58 violent offenders and impulsive fire setters in the early 1980s.
(6) These included an investigation of egg handling techniques from nest box to hatcher; the adoption by the hatchery of plastic setter trays; an improvement to incubator environment; an improvement in the overall hatchery hygiene programme and the introduction of a regular monitoring programme based on the examination of hatchery fluff.
(7) The purpose of this special communication is to emphasize the importance of balancing the physical therapy director's dual roles as fiscal manager and professional value setter.
(8) Ozone and formaldehyde were evaluated as disinfectants in a prototype laboratory setter against microorganisms that are naturally present on fertile, freshly laid, broiler hatching eggs.
(9) Two male English Setters were noticed to be breathing rapidly, hyperexcitable, and atactic after roaming a rural area for 2 hours.
(10) a) synovial bursa ( schleimbeutel ) b) sneeze guard ( Spukschutz ) c) snotty-nosed brat – literally snot spoon ( rotzloeffel ) d) grumpy bastard – literally lump of vomit ( kotzbrocken ) 4,000 Jet-setters complain of a) Jetleg b) Jetleck c) Jetlag d) Jetlack 8,000 Who, if a contestant on Who Wants To Be A Millionaire, would definitely not call the Joker?
(11) Using light microscopic immunocytochemistry, the localization of S-antigen was studied in the retinas of normal dogs and Irish setters affected with rod-cone dysplasia, a hereditary retinal degeneration characterized by abnormal cGMP metabolism and arrested outer segment differentiation.
(12) Test setters retain influence over what counts, and there is no adjusting for test-takers' inclination to apply themselves – or not.
(13) A 5-month-old female Gordon Setter was examined because of a soft, fluctuant, subcutaneous swelling in the right submandibular region.
(14) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Andrew Sentance ANDREW SENTANCE Former Bank of England interest-rate setter Is Brexit now more likely?
(15) The etiology, pathogenesis and clinical manifestations of the Irish setter leucocyte adhesion deficiency were similar to that of the leucocyte adhesion deficiency in humans.
(16) The FTSE fell after the Bank decision was announced and it closed down 55 points, or 0.7%, at 7419.36. Business Today: sign up for a morning shot of financial news Read more Since the Brexit vote the Bank’s committee of rate-setters has been forced into a balancing act between keeping import-fuelled inflation in check and providing support to the economy as uncertainty and a squeeze on incomes bites.
(17) Seemingly, the seborrheic skin observed in these Cocker Spaniels and Irish Setters was associated with an altered rate of epidermal keratinization.
(18) Today's budget is being seen as a scene-setter for the election, with the electorate being presented with a choice between the Labour party and Liberal Democrats making massive cuts to public sector spending in a year, or the Conservative party making even bigger cuts to the public sector, but starting with a special George Osborne budget 50 days after they are elected to government.
(19) These findings document a wheat-sensitive enteropathy in Irish setter dogs and suggest that brush-border alkaline phosphatase is specifically susceptible to damage by wheat.
(20) Irish setters affected with rod-cone dysplasia type 1 (rcd1) were bred to Norwegian elkhounds affected with early retinal degeneration (erd).