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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boldness, brass, cheek, face, heart, mettle, nerve, nervus, spunk, steel,
1. NOUN. (nerve)
impudent aggressiveness
"I couldn''t believe her boldness"
"he had the effrontery to question my honesty"
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2. NOUN. (nerve)
the courage to carry on
"he kept fighting on pure spunk"
"you haven''t got the heart for baseball"
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3. NOUN. (nerve)
any bundle of nerve fibers running to various organs and tissues of the body
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motor nerve, sensory nerve, cranial nerve, depressor, depressor nerve, radial nerve, nervus radialis, musculospiral nerve, splanchnic nerve, sciatic nerve, nervus ischiadicus, saphenous nerve, nervus saphenus, ulnar nerve, cubital nerve, nervus ulnaris, spinal nerve, nervus spinalis,
