Some of these synonyms indicate the theoretical and unsupported opinions of their authors, and others refer merely to a symptom.
Atmospheric vicissitudes, checking of perspiration, catching cold, aresynonyms in the present popular as in the ancient professional conception of the genesis of dysentery.
A knowledge of synonyms will be valuable to you in several ways.
Give one or more synonyms for each of the following words.
Synonyms are words which have the same or nearly the same meaning.
Choose one of the synonyms given in each of the following sentences.
Accordingly, the several names proposed for this purpose are arranged here as synonyms of the generic name Lepus Linnaeus.
Thirteen species are here described, and as it has been found extremely difficult in most cases to identify any of them with the very few hitherto noticed forms, the synonyms given must be regarded as at least extremely doubtful.
Of the fifty-three species, about thirty-three seem to be new, or to have been so imperfectly described as not to admit of precise identification, and five others have synonyms more or less doubtful applied to them.
The right dictionary of synonyms would give the context of each variant in the usage of the best authors.
It is not chiefly, however, for the purposes of this accumulated and varied emphasis that the need of synonyms is felt.
Some Vannans have assumed the name Irkuli Vellala, and Rajakan and Kattavaraya vamsam have also been recorded as synonymsof the caste name.
Viswakarma and Viswa Brahman are synonyms for Kammalan, the members of which class claim descent from the five faces of Viswakarma, the architect of the gods.
In this list of synonyms we may probably also include Rudolphi’s Distoma tornatum.
A great variety of other equine bot-flies have been described, but all, or nearly all, of them are mere synonyms of the above-mentioned forms.
But these names are merely eulogistic synonyms for imagination, implying (what is perfectly possible) that the imagination has not misled us.
Hell, in English, and Enfer in French, are erotic synonyms for the female pudendum, as are devil and diable for the male organ of generation.
Farmer: Slang and its Analogues, for his amazing list of synonyms denoting the sexual act under the heading “Ride.
Words of the same meaning are less often so than they are so called; and we sometimes give lists of synonyms showing the differences of their meanings.
Twains of words are, however, less oftensynonyms than they are so called.
All of the synonyms created by pomologists to whose works we have had access have been noted but in no case have we published synonyms quoted by other writers.
The variety reproduces itself from seed and this fact has led to its being distributed under a number of different names as is shown by the synonyms listed in the references.
The work of reading references and seeking outsynonyms is a tremendous one, involving nearly three years' work for several persons.
In any formal list of Roses, both names should be given, together with any other commercial synonyms that may exist.
The coining of commercialsynonyms is not, of course, to be encouraged, and should only be done if the original name is clearly unsuitable for the new country.
But Gould, regarding Latham's specimens as all of the same species, takes all Latham's scientific and vernacular names as synonyms for the same bird.
Here the group of synonyms arises from weakening of the ordinary prose meanings; and this tendency to use words in colourless or forced senses is a general defect of alliterative verse.
Unless the alliteration is to be monotonous, there must be many synonyms for common words like man, kni[gh]t: e.
This conjecture is confirmed by what we know of some Victorian tribes whose speech comprised a regular set of synonyms to be used instead of the common terms by all members of a tribe in times of mourning.
This taboo naturally produced a plentiful crop of synonyms in the Maori language, and travellers newly arrived in the country were sometimes puzzled at finding the same things called by quite different names in neighbouring tribes.
Synonyms adopted in order to avoid naming the dead, 359 sqq.
The writer who records this custom surmises that it may explain the presence of a number of synonyms in the language of the tribe.
Over 8,100 classified synonyms with their various shades of meaning carefully discriminated, this being an exclusive feature of this work.
Without accepting the doubtful synonyms of Bugiada d'Hiver des Italiens and Brute-Bonne de Rome which have been applied to it, we may judge from its name, Holy Father, that it came from Italy.
It is also very doubtful whether the synonyms of Pendar and Knaves' pear given by Miller and Forsyth apply to this fruit.
The Pendar of La Quintinye, and the Hanging pear of Evelyn, although quoted as synonyms of this pear, are probably not the same as they are said to ripen in October.
It should not be confused with Summer Portugal although the two varieties have various synonyms in common and have some qualities in common.
This has ten synonyms in Europe, which indicates its popularity.
Their name is legion, and they are rapidly increasing, and their synonyms multiplying.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "synonyms" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
