WordNet is a semantic lexicon for the English language. It was created and is being maintained at the Cognitive Science Laboratory of Princeton University under the direction of psychology professor George A. Miller.
The purpose is twofold: to produce a combination of dictionary and thesaurus that is more intuitively usable, and to support automatic text analysis and artificial intelligence applications.
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half*, climate, weather, arctic, cyclone, storm, woman, meteorology>, prognostication
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American Samoa, arsenic, AS, atomic number 33, Eastern Samoa, equally, every bit,
1. NOUN. (as)
a United States territory on the eastern part of the island of Samoa
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a very poisonous metallic element that has three allotropic forms
arsenic and arsenic compounds are used as herbicides and insecticides and various alloys
found in arsenopyrite and orpiment and realgar
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herbicide, weedkiller, weed killer, insecticide, insect powder, arsenopyrite, mispickel, orpiment, realgar,
