Glossary for Roget.Org
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 Roget.Org 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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