Lexical Relations

Furniture > table

• hyponymy

• polysemy

• prototype

• homophones

car park, housework

• synonyms

• antonyms

• homonyms

• compound word

a set of words that denotes a subcategory of a more general class

• hyponymy

• metonymy

• polysemy

• clines

Bird > duck is an example of prototype?

• true

• false

hard work, a heavy subject

• collocation

• compound word

• polysemy

• word family

Lecture, rope

• False friend

• polysemy

• collocation

• hyponymy

has the same pronunciation but different meanings, origins, and spelling

• homonym

• homophones

• clines

• hyponymy

has the coexistence of many possible or related meanings for a word or phrase

• hyponymy

• polysemy

• other

• metonymy

is arranged in terms of strength or intensity of the word/phrase that represents a certain idea

• polysemy

• clines

• synonym

• homonyms

clock = minute hand - hour hand - case

• polysemy

• metonymy

• hyponymy

• synonym