Glossary for Roget2000
Special Characters
restricted semantic neighbourhood
The senses of a topic word
restricted to only those synonyms that occur in more than one sense
(strong synonyms), and
senses that contain only strong synonyms (at least one);
semantic
neighbourhood without singletons; a.k.a. restricted neighbourhood
semantic neighbourhood
The senses of a topic word, along with all synonyms occurring in those
senses
singletons
Words with only one sense. In a restricted neighbourhood, those words that
occur only once in the semantic neigbourhood of the topic word: words that
share only one sense with a topic word
strong synonyms
words that occur more than once in the semantic neighbourhood of a topic
word
topic word
Input word for form queries; topic of a semantic neighbourhood or
restricted semantic neighbourhood; subject word; search term, in the
context of Roget2000
A standard ASCII character set is used for this database. Special characters
are represented by codes.
e.g., maître d'hôtel => ma=itre d'h=otel
| Code |
Context |
Meaning |
Example |
| / |
before
n |
diacritical tilde |
ma/nana
=> mañana |
| / |
before
vowel |
|
S/ao
Paulo => São Paulo |
| ?? |
before
word |
upside-down
"?" |
??verdad?
=> ¿verdad? |
| ^ |
before
vowel |
umlaut |
D^ammerschlaf
=> Dämmerschlaf |
| _ |
before
vowel |
acute |
l_eg+eret_e
=> légèreté |
| + |
before
a vowel |
grave |
l_eg+eret_e
=> légèreté |
| < |
before
c |
cedilla |
gar<con
=> garçon |
| = |
before
vowel |
circumflex |
m=el_ee
=> mêlee |
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