What is Hyponym and example?

A hyponym is a word or phrase whose semantic field is more specific than its hypernym. For example, verbs such as stare, gaze, view and peer can also be considered hyponyms of the verb look, which is their hypernym. Hypernyms and hyponyms are asymmetric.

What are examples of homophones with meanings and sentences?

50 Homophones with Meanings and Examples

Aunt (noun) or Aren’t (contraction) –
Ate (verb) or Eight(noun) –
Air (noun) or Heir (noun) –
Board (noun) or Bored (adjective) –
Buy (verb) or By (preposition) or Bye (exclamation) –
Brake (noun, verb) or Break (noun, verb) –
Cell (noun) or Sell (verb) –
Chilli (noun) or Chilly (adjective) –

Which sentence uses whether correctly?

It is time to find out whether Janey chose the truck or the sedan is the sentence that uses whether correctly.

How do you use homophones in a sentence?

Some common examples of homophones, including the words used in a sentence, are:

brake/break: When teaching my daughter how to drive, I told her if she didn’t hit the brake in time she would break the car’s side mirror.
cell/sell: If you sell drugs, you will get arrested and end up in a prison cell.

What word has the most definitions?

The word with the most meanings in English is the verb ‘set’, with 430 senses listed in the Second Edition of the Oxford English Dictionary, published in 1989. The word commands the longest entry in the dictionary at 60,000 words, or 326,000 characters.

Which is the shortest word in English?

Eunoia

Are there any words without a vowel?

Words with no vowels Cwm and crwth do not contain the letters a, e, i, o, u, or y, the usual vowels (that is, the usual symbols that stand for vowel sounds) in English. Shh, psst, and hmm do not have vowels, either vowel symbols or vowel sounds.

What is the hardest word to guess?

The hardest word to guess in hangman, according to science, is: Jazz. Composed of 75 percent uncommon letters (J and Z) and allowing only three chances at picking correctly, jazz is the perfect storm of Hangman trickery. It’s kind of fitting, really. They say jazz is all about the notes they don’t play.