As a hypernym can be understood as a more general word than its hyponym, the relation is used in semantic compression by generalization to reduce a level of specialization.
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It's very useful to link the words with one another, to find synonyms and antonyms, hyponyms and hypernyms, to learn contribs } 16 : 08, 8 September 2007 ( UTC)
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Strictly speaking, the meaning relation between hyponyms and hypernyms applies to lexical items of the same word class ( or parts of speech ), and holds between the drink made with vodka and orange juice.
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This is because, in order for a software program to construct a taxonomy from a corpus ( for example, from Wikipedia, a web page, or the World Wide Web ), it must hyponym-hypernym pairs, among other approaches.
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Metonymy can sometimes be a form of synonymy, as when, for example, " the White House " is used as a synonym of " the administration " in referring to the U . S . hyponym of the word " synonym ".
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In addition, it should be noted that a word can be both a hypernym and a hyponym : for example " purple " is a hyponym of colour but itself is a hypernym of the broad spectrum of shades of purple between the range of " crimson " and " violet ".
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In addition, it should be noted that a word can be both a hypernym and a hyponym : for example " purple " is a hyponym of colour but itself is a hypernym of the broad spectrum of shades of purple between the range of " crimson " and " violet ".
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And indeed, the term " X-ray imaging " is the ultimate hypernym that unites all of them, even subsuming both fluoroscopy and 4D CT . However, it may be many decades before the earlier hyponyms fall into disuse, not least because the day when 4D CT displaces all earlier forms of moving X-ray imaging may yet be distant.
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An "'exocentric compound "'( called a " bahuvrihi " compound in the Sanskrit tradition ) is a hyponym of some unexpressed semantic category ( such as a person, plant, or animal ) : none ( neither ) of its components can be perceived as a formal head, and its meaning often cannot be transparently guessed from its constituent parts.
