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SYNONYMOUS
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
(of words) meaning the same or nearly the same
Classified under:
Similar:
similar ((of words) expressing closely related meanings)
substitutable ((of words) interchangeable in a given context without changing the import of the expression)
Antonym:
antonymous (of words: having opposite meanings)
Derivation:
synonym (two words that can be interchanged in a context are said to be synonymous relative to that context)
synonymity; synonymousness (the semantic relation that holds between two words that can (in a given context) express the same meaning)
Context examples:
But in Martin's estimation the whole tribe of bank cashiers fell a few hundred per cent, and for the rest of the evening he labored under the impression that bank cashiers and talkers of platitudes were synonymous phrases.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
You think me foolish to call instruction a torment, but if you had been as much used as myself to hear poor little children first learning their letters and then learning to spell, if you had ever seen how stupid they can be for a whole morning together, and how tired my poor mother is at the end of it, as I am in the habit of seeing almost every day of my life at home, you would allow that 'to torment' and 'to instruct' might sometimes be used as synonymous words.
(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)
A Non-synonymous Coding SNP consists of a variation at an appreciable frequency between individuals of a single interbreeding population of a single nucleotide, due to base substitution, at an equivalent location within a protein-coding region of a gene that causes an alteration of the translation of the affected codon into a different amino acid in the protein product.
(Non-synonymous Coding SNP, NCI Thesaurus)
