hyponymy

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Noun

hyponymy - the semantic relation of being subordinate or belonging to a lower rank or class

subordination

semantic relation - a relation between meanings

Translations

Hyponymie

гипонимия

hyponymy

[haɪˈpɒnɪmɪ] N → hiponimia f

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We have placed the following under the category of felicitous semantic relations: antonymy, hyponymy, lexical and semantic fields (2).

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In my research I follow the commonly accepted definition offered by Bloomfield (1933: 235), who identifies such compounds semantically, by means of hyponymy, i.e.

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Uloga predocivosti u leksicko-semantickoj obradi hiperonimije/hiponimije

What ideologically significant relations of meaning (synonymy, antonymy, hyponymy) are there between words?

Representation of the Afghan National Identity in Hosseini's A Thousand Splendid Suns

Semantic relationships may include similarity, hyponymy, precursor, or equivalence.

Designing a resource evolution support system for open knowledge communities

Words in the same semantic field are linguistically related (out of the semantic relations; synonymy, hyponymy, etc.) and conceptually related (as they represent the human cognition of the world).

Approaching "lost love" theme in two culturally different poems: A cognitive linguistic analysis

The most popular relation among synsets is the IS-A relation also called super-subordinate relation or hyperonymy- hyponymy relation.

OPTIMIZING UNSUPERVISED LEARNING OF OPINION TARGETS FROM UNSTRUCTURED REVIEWS USING WORDNET BASED SEMANTIC ORIENTATION

Nouns and verbs are arranged in structured way based on the hypernymy/ hyponymy relations.

Designing and implementing bi-lingual mobile dictionary to be used in machine translation

For example, bird is a hyponymy of vertebrate, and vertebrate is a hypernym of bird.