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I'm looking for some words that mean something and that something's opposite. For example, cleave means both to split apart as well as to cling together. DRosenbach ( Talk | Contribs) 03:33, 25 January 2010 (UTC)
And then there's that special sub-group of pairs of homophones (words that are spelled differently but pronounced the same) that have contrary meanings; e.g. "raise" and "raze". I don't know if these have a name - antohomophononym, perhaps? homonymantophone? -- Jack of Oz ... speak! ... 03:10, 26 January 2010 (UTC)
I am not a native speaker of English, I just translate books writenin English to Hungarian. As I read my book I found the expression whirling dervish. In this case it is said to an animal. I looked up the word in Wiktionary, and I found there that it is an expression. Colud somebody descibe me its meaning? -- Ksanyi ( talk) 10:43, 25 January 2010 (UTC)
Excuse me. Leave me to copy here the original sentence. "I actually touched the plate and and the honey badger turned into a roaring wherling dervish!" Thank you foryour help again. -- Ksanyi ( talk) 11:13, 25 January 2010 (UTC)
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I'm looking for some words that mean something and that something's opposite. For example, cleave means both to split apart as well as to cling together. DRosenbach ( Talk | Contribs) 03:33, 25 January 2010 (UTC)
And then there's that special sub-group of pairs of homophones (words that are spelled differently but pronounced the same) that have contrary meanings; e.g. "raise" and "raze". I don't know if these have a name - antohomophononym, perhaps? homonymantophone? -- Jack of Oz ... speak! ... 03:10, 26 January 2010 (UTC)
I am not a native speaker of English, I just translate books writenin English to Hungarian. As I read my book I found the expression whirling dervish. In this case it is said to an animal. I looked up the word in Wiktionary, and I found there that it is an expression. Colud somebody descibe me its meaning? -- Ksanyi ( talk) 10:43, 25 January 2010 (UTC)
Excuse me. Leave me to copy here the original sentence. "I actually touched the plate and and the honey badger turned into a roaring wherling dervish!" Thank you foryour help again. -- Ksanyi ( talk) 11:13, 25 January 2010 (UTC)