Polysemy (/pəˈlɪsɪmi/ or /ˈpɒlɪˌsiːmi/; from Ancient Greek πολύ- (polý-) 'many' and σῆμα (sêma) 'sign') is the capacity for a sign (e.g. a symbol, a morpheme...

number of distinct senses that are listed in Wiktionary is shown in the polysemy column. For example, "out" can refer to an escape, a removal from play...

linkage of two senses depends upon a pun, this is known as synaesthetic polysemy. Examples include: "the hyacinth purple, and white, and blue, Which flung...

this phenomenon is called polysemy—a term borrowed from linguistics. Some examples of polysemy include: intersection polysemy—pairs of graphs G1 and G2...

digits on a hand". Autohyponymy is also called "vertical polysemy". Horn called this "licensed polysemy", but found that autohyponyms also formed even when...

homonymy. Heterosemy contrasts with polysemy: while heterosemy implies two distinct words with the same form, polysemy implies one word with multiple meanings...

smallest possible unit of meaning) or a sememe (larger unit of meaning), and polysemy of a word of phrase is the property of having multiple semes or sememes...

watched in anticipation of a romance, thanks, in part, to his strategic polysemy. He can deny that these fans had reason to do so, however, since he has...

other automatic translation tools, has its limitations, struggles with polysemy (the multiple meanings a word may have) and multiword expressions (terms...

skewed definition of term Plausible deniability: a blame-shifting technique Polysemy: the property of word or phrase having certain type of multiple meanings...

meaningless, the structural integrity of this sentence is high. The mechanism of polysemy – where a word has multiple meanings – can be used to create an interpretation...

representation (a single vector in the semantic space). In other words, polysemy and homonymy are not handled properly. For example, in the sentence "The...

Retrieved 24 July 2024. Seravalle, Francesca (2017). "The Fist Photos: On the Polysemy of the Fist". Photographic Museum of Humanity. Retrieved July 2, 2019....

possible to disambiguate them to discern the intended meaning. The term polysemy is used if the different meanings are closely related to one another, like...

natural language processing tasks, such as coreference resolution and polysemy resolution. ELMo was historically important as a pioneer of self-supervised...

2008-09-24. Retrieved 2011-03-11. Bush, Olga (2015). "Entangled Gazes: The Polysemy of the New Great Mosque of Granada". Muqarnas. 32: 97–134. doi:10.1163/22118993-00321P07...

An albur (plural: albures) is a word play in Mexican Spanish that involves a double entendre. The first meaning in the Spanish language of albur refers...

Synecdoche and metalepsis are considered specific types of metonymy. Polysemy, the capacity for a word or phrase to have multiple meanings, sometimes...

hyponym of the word synonym.[citation needed] The analysis of synonymy, polysemy, hyponymy, and hypernymy is inherent to taxonomy and ontology in the information...

source of the non-alignment about the communicative act. Aberrant decoding Polysemy "Definition of MISCOMMUNICATION". www.merriam-webster.com. Retrieved 2020-03-01...

natural language processing tasks, such as coreference resolution and polysemy resolution. It is an evolutionary step over ELMo, and spawned the study...

ISBN 978-1412965804. LCCN 2008009151. OCLC 750831024. Taylor, Charles. "The Polysemy of the Secular", Social Research, Winter 2009, Vol. 76 Issue 4, pp. 1143–1166...

Rewrites Sex, Gender, Hollywood and the American Dream, noted that there is a polysemy in "Like a Prayer" since Madonna addresses either God or her lover, and...

that are spelled or pronounced the same way but hold different meanings. Polysemy refers to a word having two or more related meanings. Lexical semantics...

Eerdmans Publishing Co. ISBN 978-0-8028-6761-2. Taylor, Charles (2009). "The Polysemy of the Secular". Social Research. 76 (4): 1143–1166. doi:10.1353/sor.2009...

cremation or burial. Though the charnel ground is to be understood as a polysemy and metaphor it must be emphasized that holy people as part of their sadhana...

settings such as bufo theatre, is largely responsible for such worldwide polysemy of the term. In addition, "rumba" was the primary marketing term for Cuban...

stability and cultural continuity". Fredric Jameson's analysis highlights the polysemy of the shark and the multiple ways in which it can be and has been read—from...

modelling of lexical knowledge : a corpus-based investigation of systematic polysemy. lib.ed.ac.uk (PhD thesis). University of Edinburgh. hdl:1842/22394. OCLC 1063499316...

similar words (homonymy), of different shades of meaning of one word (polysemy), or of a literal meaning with a metaphor. Juxtaposition is a literary...