(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.
Train
Definition:
(v. t.) To draw along; to trail; to drag.
(v. t.) To draw by persuasion, artifice, or the like; to attract by stratagem; to entice; to allure.
(v. t.) To teach and form by practice; to educate; to exercise; to discipline; as, to train the militia to the manual exercise; to train soldiers to the use of arms.
(v. t.) To break, tame, and accustom to draw, as oxen.
(v. t.) To lead or direct, and form to a wall or espalier; to form to a proper shape, by bending, lopping, or pruning; as, to train young trees.
(v. t.) To trace, as a lode or any mineral appearance, to its head.
(v. i.) To be drilled in military exercises; to do duty in a military company.
(v. i.) To prepare by exercise, diet, instruction, etc., for any physical contest; as, to train for a boat race.
(v.) That which draws along; especially, persuasion, artifice, or enticement; allurement.
(v.) Hence, something tied to a lure to entice a hawk; also, a trap for an animal; a snare.
(v.) That which is drawn along in the rear of, or after, something; that which is in the hinder part or rear.
(v.) That part of a gown which trails behind the wearer.
(v.) The after part of a gun carriage; the trail.
(v.) The tail of a bird.
(v.) A number of followers; a body of attendants; a retinue; a suite.
(v.) A consecution or succession of connected things; a series.
(v.) Regular method; process; course; order; as, things now in a train for settlement.
(v.) The number of beats of a watch in any certain time.
(v.) A line of gunpowder laid to lead fire to a charge, mine, or the like.
(v.) A connected line of cars or carriages on a railroad.
(v.) A heavy, long sleigh used in Canada for the transportation of merchandise, wood, and the like.
(v.) A roll train; as, a 12-inch train.
Example Sentences:
(1) Circuit weight training does not exacerbate resting or exercise blood pressure and may have beneficial effects.
(2) The Trans-Siberian railway , the greatest train journey in the world, is where our love story began.
(3) Pretraining consumption did not predict (among animals) post-training consumption.
(4) Inadequate treatment, caused by a lack of drugs and poorly trained medical attendants, is also a major problem.
(5) Training in social skills specific to fostering intimacy is suggested as a therapeutic step, and modifications to the social support measure for future use discussed.
(6) Accuracy of discrimination of letters at various preselected distances was determined each session while Ortho-rater examinations were given periodically throughout training.
(7) In the case of nonspecific loading highly trained individuals may have low VT values close to the level characteristic for normal subjects.
(8) The results suggest that RPE cannot be used reliably as a surrogate for direct pulse measurement in exercise training of persons with acute dysvascular amputations.
(9) A 24-h test trial employing a dry target demonstrated a robust memory for the training manifested in passive avoidance behavior.
(10) Consequently, the present data indicate that training-induced changes in the CS-evoked activity of PFCm cells are significantly related to aversively conditioned bradycardia in rabbits.
(11) Thus, brain NE levels after training were not predictive of retention performance in amygdala-implanted or -stimulated animals.
(12) In a comparative study 11 athletes and 11 untrained students were investigated at rest, of these 6 trained and 5 untrained individuals during exercise as well.
(13) Before training, SV at VO2max was 9% lower than during exercise at 50% VO2max (P less than 0.05).
(14) I hope I can play a major part in really highlighting the need for far more extensive family violence training within all organisations that deal with women and children, including the police and the department of human services,” Batty said.
(15) Participants were selected from existing classes forming a weight training, aerobic exercise and activity control group.
(16) In common with other studies, we found that the injury occurred in competitive runners, especially females, and was likely to develop during competitive races or intensive training sessions.
(17) Little difference exists between the proportion of programs that offer training in first-trimester techniques and the proportion that train in second-trimester techniques.
(18) There was no significant correlation between mitochondrial volume and number of SO fibers following endurance exercise training.
(19) Following mass disasters and individual deaths, dentists with special training and experience in forensic odontology are frequently called upon to assist in the identification of badly mutilated or decomposed bodies.
(20) Neuromuscular transmission was measured using "train-of-four" stimulation.