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In its most common meaning, the term idea is used as a synonym for theme, melody, phrase or motive.
This impressively contrasts with the first half of the century when Germany was the synonym of a highly cartelized country.
Even middle class is these days often used as a venomous synonym for smug, unadventurous or selfish.
He points out that I used hue in the sub-title of my article about colour words almost as a synonym for colour.
Since then, she's been reclusive, stand-offish, and another synonym for those two words.
Most of our uncorrupt political leaders were murdered and for many Colombians the word politician is now a synonym for corruption and abuse.
Thus, we use the name P. ultima as the senior synonym of P. praetriangularis.
Buck hares are wild frolickers in March, their breeding season, which has made them a synonym for lunacy for centuries.
As in the passage quoted above, he often uses equality of condition as a virtual synonym for democracy.
It is therefore perhaps best to say that a synonym is a word that shares the same denotation with another word.
Many persons persist with the earlier, naive, view that the role of a definition is only to offer a synonym for the term to be defined.
The term Polychaeta may no longer be valid because Polychaeta is likely a synonym for Annelida.
Nor is she a colleen, a frail, a skirt, a broad, a womyn, a twist, or any other synonym.
For simplicity's sake, I use the term here as a synonym for gravitational wave, as researchers themselves often do when speaking casually.
The term histrionic here is being used as a synonym for theatrical or dramatic.
A dictionary, a thesaurus or synonym finder, a good grammar book and language tapes are good investments for anyone wishing to develop or maintain language skills.
Each entry begins with the synonym, varietal, or discredited name in question in normal typeface, followed by an equals sign, then the modern, accepted name in boldface type.
This method of preservation was so prevalent that cerement became a synonym for grave clothes.
In it, 'Jew' is a synonym for a wheedler, a schemer, a miserly accumulator of vast wealth and a cheater on his fellows.
On the Allied side it became a synonym for treasonable or hostile activity, so that to call people collaborators was to express strong disapproval for their actions.
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More usually the Japanese themselves speak of hara-kiri by its Chinese synonym, seppuku.
As the term anesthesin had become a common name for the drug, the Council recognized this as a synonym for benzocaine.
Black Russian, listed by some firms, is probably Black Tartarian as it is used many times as a synonym by foreign writers.
There appear to be several varieties of cassolette three or four of which bear the synonym of Lechfrion.
He regarded it as a synonym of the fantasia, which was a free form made up of fugato instrumental passages.
The fox is the synonym of cunning, and will often outwit the shrewdest trapper.
The synonym of Morison at least, which he has thus by memory applied, proves to be erroneous.
The pseudoscientific synonym pheno-methylene-formate carries the idea that Pyo-Atoxin is a definite chemical substance.
But the name of Pullman is destined to long remain a synonym of philanthropy.
Its synonym was impotency among the law-abiders who were yet political cowards.
I am sure you understand by this time, Mr. Burns, that Colorado is a synonym for perfection.
Ziyan caan appears to be used as a synonym of it, or else refers to a part of it.
By this name it has been known ever since, and only one additional name is included in its synonym, xiphias rondeletic of Leach.
He, however, puts it on one side as merely a synonym for pyrite, nor can it be satisfactorily defined in much better terms.
Trionyx carinatus is questionably listed as a synonym of ferox by Stejneger.
By and by, which was once a synonym, has become an antonym of immediately, meaning at some future time.
It came to be used interchangeably with Leninism, as a synonym.
Board-of-Green-Cloth, a facetious synonym for a card or billiard table.
Bush gives Sharon as a synonym of Cayuga but this appears to be an error.
If such a habituation be identical among all, it is a synonym.
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