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Thanks, certainly there is not mistake in my questions, I just like to know if there is such a relation name. I am doing Natural Language Processing research.such as, car -> motor vehiclethe relation between them is, motor vehicle is a hypernym of carcar -> accelerator pedalaccelerator...

In a contemporary American supermarket or health foods store, you could ask, "are these organically grown or conventially grown?"

What is the antonym of organically grown?Consumers are prepared to pay a premium for organically grown vegetables.

Hello! As you may have noticed, these verbs are virtually synonymous. However, there is an easy way to explain the difference. We will have to look at these words in detail. - 'to clarify' is a word formed by its root 'clar-' (to English speakers know as the word 'clear')...

Antipode and near antipode? Antonyms and near antonyms? Do they sound good and "technical enough" for your paper?In my opinion, this kind of demarcation is arbitrary and artificial. Whether two terms are exact, near exact or not opposite in meaning often depends on context.

N2G,CJ is exactly right. If you are going to use topdog you should consider it extremely informal, almost slang. In fact, I notice that the spell checker built into this editor does not recognize topdog as a word but it does recognize underdog.

My estimate of it is that underdog has entered "much deeper" into the standard lexicon than topdog. In describing candidates for political office, for example, journalists use the term underdog all the time -- to the point that we native speakers almost don't register the idea of...

I'm comfortable using the favorite and front-runner but a bit reserved when it comes to topdog. I guess it's a new term to me so I lack confidence.

At first, I thought you were kidding :) . My dictionary agrees with you. But I wonder why the other native speakers didn't suggest it. Is it a common term?

Hello to all, I believe that to learn English depends of the interest of individual and depending of the English knowledge you wanted to learn. like for instance, if you want to speak English all you have to do is to listen very carefully to some tools such as CD, DVD, tapes etc. either audio...