1.lexical-relation

pork, beef, etc. 2) Vegetable
carrot, eggplant, etc.
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Generally, they have: a) central meaning vs. secondary meaning; b)general meaning vs. specific meaning ; c) abstract meaning vs. concrete meaning; d)literal meaning vs. metaphorical meaning
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How to distinguish full homonyms (同音同形异义词) and polysemants (一词多义)?
1) To see if they are from the same origin; 2) To see if they are correlated with one central
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Sense relations
3) Antonymy: 2 words have the opposite meaning. agree – disagree able – unable regular – irregular;
Hot--cold Excellent--terrible
b) homophones（同音异形异义词） :
sea → see; air → heir our → hour;
right → write
c) full homonyms (同音同形异义词) :
ball → ball; bank → bank词义间的关系
1) Polysemy 一词多义 One word has more than 1 meaning.
Lexical relations 词间关系 & sense relations 词义间的关系
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Lexical relations 词间关系
1) Lexical relations：
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Homonymy 同音同形词
3) a) homographs (同形异音异义词) :
bow → bow ; wind → wind
meaning; 3) To see if they are listed in the same entry in a
dictionary
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Sense relations
2) Synonymy: 2 words have the same or similar meaning. E.g. costly, expensive, dear, valuable, priceless, precious, invaluable
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sense relations
4) Hyponymy: 上下义 the meaning of one word include the meaning of
another. The general one is called superordinate, the specific one is called hyponym. Human being: man, woman; Food: 1)Meat