Polysemy

Polysemy is a term to refer to a word which has a set of different meaning which are related by extension. Example:

WordBackA set of different meaningHuman back The back of the chair The back of the sofa The back of the knife The back of the hand The back of the head The back football player

WordEyeA set of different meaningHuman eye The eye of a needle The eye of a potatoThe hook and an eyeHuman foot WordFootA set of different meaningHuman foot The foot of a bed The foot of a hill/mountainPolysemyHomonymyHomonymy is a term that refers to one form, which is the same in both written and spoken with two or more unrelated meanings. Some examples are: Bank : of a river : of a financial institutionPupil : student : in the eye Mole : an animal : a small dark mark on the skin : a stone wall built in the sea

Sole: of the shoes : fish Leaf : of a tree : of a book

ContHyponymyAnother sense relation is hyponymy. Hyponymy involves the notion of inclusion. Hyponymy is a term to refer to a set or a group of words that are included in a higher term a word. The higher or upper term or word is called a super ordinate and the lower is term called a hyponymy. We have one word that can be described in other kinds that have relation with the word.Cont Some example are: Vegetable : carrots , cabbage , spinach , lettuce Avian: duck , goose , cock , hen , canary Bird : swallow , crane , woodpecker , quail Feline : tiger , lion , cat , leopard , puma , cheetahBovine : cow , bull , buffalo , bison

MeronymyMeronymy comes from the Greek words Meros: part and Anoma: name . A meronym denotes a constituent part of a member of something. That is: X is a meronymy of Y if Xs are parts of YX is a meronymy of Y if Xs are parts of Y Some example are : Finger is meronym of hand Chin is meronym of face Boughs is meronym of treeWheel is meronym of autoSleeve is meronym of shirt

Collocation Collocation is a term to refer to words that end to appear together or words that tend to keep company. Frequent examples of collocation are onomatopoeic words that are words which are formed by imitating the sounds associated with the thing concerned. Collocation is what the general sign that animal has usually in sounds. Some examples are:

A horse neighA cat mews / meowsA cock crowsA hen cackles A cow moosA buffalo bellowsA goat bleatsAn elephant trumpetsA snake hissesA mouse squeaks A bee hums

Idioms An idiom is also a type of collocation, which there is a big difference between a collocation and an idiom. In most collocations, the conceptual meaning of the words that collocate is maintained, while in an idiom, the meaning of the idiom cannot be traced from the meaning of the individual words that collocate. An idiom is a group of words with a new meaning which is quite different from the meaning of the words individually. Some English idioms are:

IdiomPut up withMeaningTolerate , endureIdiomRed herringMeaningIntroduce irrelevant matter to distract attention from the subject