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WordNet is a lexical database for the English language.

It groups English words into sets of synonyms called synsets, provides short definitions and usage examples, and records a number of relations among these synonym sets or their members.

WordNet can thus be seen as a combination of dictionary and thesaurus.

While it is accessible to human users via a web browser, its primary use is in automatic text analysis and artificial intelligence applications.

The database and software tools have been released under a BSD style license and are freely available for download from the WordNet website.

Both the lexicographic data (lexicographer files) and the compiler (called grind) for producing the distributed database are available.

Roget's Thesaurus is a widely used English-language thesaurus, created in 1805 by Peter Mark Roget (1779–1869), British physician, natural theologian and lexicographer.

It was released to the public on 29 April 1852.

The original edition had 15,000 words, and each new edition has been larger.

The Karpeles Manuscript Library Museum houses the original manuscript in its collection.

A part of speech (abbreviated form: PoS or POS) is a category of words (or, more generally, of lexical items) which have similar grammatical properties.

Words that are assigned to the same word part of speech generally display similar behavior in terms of syntax—they play similar roles within the grammatical structure of sentences—and sometimes in terms of morphology, in that they undergo inflection for similar properties.

Commonly listed English parts of speech are noun, verb, adjective, adverb, pronoun, preposition, conjunction, interjection, and sometimes numeral, article or determiner.

In general usage, a thesaurus is a reference work that lists words grouped together according to similarity of meaning (containing synonyms and sometimes antonyms), in contrast to a dictionary, which provides definitions for words, and generally lists them in alphabetical order.

The main purpose of such reference works is to help the user "to find the word, or words, by which [an] idea may be most fitly and aptly expressed" – to quote Peter Mark Roget, architect of the best known thesaurus in the English language.

In lexical semantics, opposites are words lying in an inherently incompatible binary relationship, like the opposite pairs big: small, long: short, and precede: follow.

The notion of incompatibility here refers to the fact that one word in an opposite pair entails that it is not the other pair member.

For example, something that is long entails that it is not short.

It is referred to as a 'binary' relationship because there are two members in a set of opposites.

The relationship between opposites is known as opposition.

A member of a pair of opposites can generally be determined by the question What is the opposite of X ?.