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
SYNONYMS: Did you mean?
calefacient, heating, thaw, thawing, warming,
1. NOUN. (warming)
warm weather following a freeze
snow and ice melt
"they welcomed the spring thaw"
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2. NOUN. (warming)
the process of becoming warmer
a rising temperature
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boiling, global warming, induction heating, overheating, radiant heating, thaw, melt, thawing, melting,
3. ADJECTIVE SATELLITE. (warming)
producing the sensation of heat when applied to the body
"a mustard plaster is calefacient"
Similar:
hot,
4. ADJECTIVE SATELLITE. (warming)
imparting heat
"a warming fire"
Similar:
warm,
