synonyms:  if all words have a unique meaning then how come some words mean the same?
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The difference is in the degree of the meaning.  If I were to call something blue - is it sky blue, sea blue, baby blue, blue-green, green-blue, or midnight blue?  \n\nHe blew until he was blue!  But what shade of blue did he become?\n\nAnd is my answer boring or did it just bore you and you became uninterested?\n\n:-)
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very simple approach to words is to see them as labelling things in the world. This works well for some words. Concrete nouns like cat, sheep, or frog are used to refer to certain animals that can readily be described or pointed to. \nHowever, there are many nouns for which this approach will not work. We cannot point to abstractions like feelings, employment, or pleasure, even though we understand the meaning of these concepts. Other word classes also present problems with this simple approach: we cannot point to referents for words like when or until. \n\nIt is useful to make a distinction between this kind of "naming" meaning, which is called denotation, and another kind of meaning, which is called connotation. Connotation refers to the associations that words can have in our minds. \n\nThe denotation of the noun pig is a non-ruminant omnivorous ungulate. \n\nFor some people, the word pig might have connotations of dirty and smelly; others will think of inquisitive or cheeky. \n\nOften we have a choice of words that can express our point of view. One person's din might be another person's music. Some might see terrorists where others see freedom fighters. One person's stunning architectural statement might be another's hideous blot on the landscape. \n\nThe American linguist S. J. Hayakawa invented the terms purr words and snarl words to describe words with different associations in people's minds.\nthinking day-dreaming \ndancing jiggling about \nsmiling smirking \nweeping snivelling \nwriting scribbling \n\nSome words bring very different connotations to mind among different groups of people.\nfeminist\nrugby\nsocialist\ncasino\n\nThose whose profession it is to persuade us, such as advertisers, politicians, preachers, and orators, need to be sensitive to the connotations of the words they use. One way of testing the connotative meaning of words is to ask speakers to rank them on a scale of different qualities. \n\n     good----------bad\n     sincere--------insincere\n     happy---------unhappy\n     light-----------dark\n     beautiful-------ugly\n     strong---------weak\n     valuable-------worthless\n     smooth--------rough\n\nIt might seem a little strange, but people seem to be quite good at saying whether words like natural or fresh or smelly or fragrant are smooth or rough, light or dark, valuable or worthless. \n\nThe connotations of words are culturally determined.\nIn English, the word "red" can have negative connotations of "blood" or "communism". In Russian, krasnyj, the word for "red", has very good connotations. The Russian word for "beautiful" is prekrasnyj, which contains within it the word for "red". \nWithin contemporary society, connotation branches into a culmination of different meanings. These could include the contrast of a word or phrase with its primary, literal meaning (known as a denotation), with what that word or phrase specifically denotes. The connotation essentially relates to how anything may be associated with a word or phrase, for example, an implied value judgement or feelings.\n\nA stubborn person may be described as being either strong-willed or pig-headed. Although these have the same literal meaning (i.e. stubborn), strong-willed connotes admiration for someone's convictions, while pig-headed connotes frustration in dealing with someone. Likewise, used car and previously owned car have the same literal meaning, but many dealerships prefer the latter, since it is thought to have fewer negative connotations. \nIt is often useful to avoid words with strong connotations (especially disparaging ones) when striving to achieve a neutral point of view. A desire for more positive connotations, or fewer negative ones, is one of the main reasons for using euphemisms.\n\nIn logic and in some branches of semantics, connotation is more or less synonymous with intension. Connotation is often contrasted
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Try looking in a Thesaurus.  There's lots of words with the same meaning.
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I don't think this has anything to do with communication.  I think what it means is that words equal ideas.  If we don't have the word, the idea doesn't exist and we are, therefore, unable to explore a concept that can't exist in our own minds.
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How unique ?  Like : Unique, more unique, most unique, most uniquest.  Dat be had ta saaay. I gots ta go wif "mos unikess"
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Don't use the word weird, use unique. Everyone is unique in their own special way. :)
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A homonym is a word that has the same pronunciation or spelling (or both) as another word, but a different meaning.\nHomonyms can be subdivided into:\n\n    * Homophones: words that are pronounced the same (and may or may not be spelt the same), but differ in meaning, such as waste and waist.\n    * Homographs: words that are spelled the same (and may or may not be pronounced the same), but differ in meaning, such as desert (abandon) and desert (arid region).\n\nHomonyms that are spelt and pronounced the same – such as mean (intend) and mean (average) – are both homophones and homographs. Examples of homophones are waste and waist, pear and pair, wear and ware, tear and tier and bear and bare.
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Alliteration - The commencement of two or more words of a word group with the same letter, as in Apt Alliteration's Artful Aid \n\nAllusion - A passing or casual reference; an incidental mention of something, either directly or by implication: an allusion to Shakespeare. \n\nAnalogy - A similarity between like features of two things, on which a comparison may be based: the analogy between the heart and a pump. \n\nAssonance - \n1. Resemblance of sounds.  \n2. Also called vowel rhyme. Prosody. rhyme in which the same vowel sounds are used with different consonants in the stressed syllables of the rhyming words, as in penitent and reticence.  \n\nBlank Verse - Unrhymed verse, esp. the unrhymed iambic pentameter most frequently used in English dramatic, epic, and reflective verse.\n\nImagery - The formation of mental images, figures, or likenesses of things, or of such images collectively: the dim imagery of a dream. \n\nMetaphor - A comparison that does not use the words; "like" or "as"\n\nMeter - Poetic measure; arrangement of words in regularly measured, patterned, or rhythmic lines or verses. \n\nOnomatopoeia -  The formation of a word, as cuckoo or boom, by imitation of a sound made by or associated with its referent.  \n\nPersonification - Giving an inanimate object human traits.\n\nRepetition - The act of repeating; repeated action, performance, production, or presentation\n\nRhyme Scheme - The pattern of rhymes used in a poem, usually marked by letters to symbolize correspondences, as rhyme royal, ababbcc. \n\nRhythm - Metrical or rhythmical form; meter. \n\nFree Verse - Verse that does not follow a fixed metrical pattern.\n\nSimile - A comparison using the words; "like" or "as"\n\nStanza - An arrangement of a certain number of lines, usually four or more, sometimes having a fixed length, meter, or rhyme scheme, forming a division of a poem.\n\nSymbol - A word, phrase, image, or the like having a complex of associated meanings and perceived as having inherent value separable from that which is symbolized, as being part of that which is symbolized, and as performing its normal function of standing for or representing that which is symbolized: usually conceived as deriving its meaning chiefly from the structure in which it appears, and generally distinguished from a sign. \n\nTone - To give a particular tone or inflection to. \n\nNext time, do your own homework!
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It is a word the  meaning of which has not been changed by the addition of any prefixes or suffixes. example:\nlove is the root of unloved (prefix 'un") as well as loveless (suffix "less")
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go to urbandictionary.com \nthis site has is full of new jargon that is defined by those who use those kinds of words\nsometimes it helps
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Sometimes, a synonym helps define a word, so the word "definition" could be considered a synonym for synonym...although not quite.
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I've found a synonym for a homophone of synonym and it is accident, don't think this is the one your looking for though. For the other meaning of synonym as in words with the same meanings, there is none in the English language.
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Synonyms are a word that describes the same thing.\nSynonyms are very useful.\nI like using synonyms in essays that i write.\n\nthats 3!
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There is no difference, they are interchangeable words.
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They both mean the same thing but the second is more common.
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I've got no problem with them at all, so long as they use this idiom correctly.\n\n"Same difference" --the slang idiom from the 1940s-- is simply a very effective retort when you want to dismiss a distinction someone is trying go make that you think is silly or insignificant.  It amounts to "it's the same thing, there's no difference".  In fact, it likely is simply a shortened version of just that sort of statement.\n\nIf people understand what you mean by it (they should!) and it makes it's point very effectively (not just stating a fact but suggesting "who cares?"/"so what?") I think it's a fine and useful expression.  \n\nFrankly, I prefer it to its modern day equivalent --"whatever"!  (That one, by the way, I think is also probably a shortened form of "whatever you say", used as a patronizing dismissal of what the person actually IS saying.)\n\n(General observation:  I think the complaint about this sort of expression misunderstands how language works.  It is much like that complaint against the double negative, though such forms work very nicely and serve a very useful purpose in many languages.  We sometimes get this notion that language is nothing more than logic; that we are simply adding pieces together, like a mathematical formula.  But it's NOT mathematics.  We express much MORE than simple facts.  To begin with we express emotion and emotion -- how we FEEL about the fact and about the person we're speaking to...)
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do you mean something like.... Why has this happened?  How has this happened?  What has happened?  The words meaning similar things and can be interchanged?