(of words) meaning the same or nearly the same
synonymous
How to use synonymous in a sentence. Example sentences and definitions for synonymous.
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Now that they've chosen the foursquare name, which is synonymous with checkins, for their Yelp clone, it seems like they haven't thought out... 1.
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(of words) meaning the same or nearly the same
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Core meanings and parts of speech for synonymous.
adjective
(of words) meaning the same or nearly the same
Example sentences
Now that they've chosen the foursquare name, which is synonymous with checkins, for their Yelp clone, it seems like they haven't thought out... 1.
You are right Japanese products around that time were synonymous with bad quality, not just in US. Much water has flowed under the bridge since then.
A subpoena is not synonymous with being a defendant. 3.
I read "cracked iPhone" synonymous with "jailbreaked iPhone". Also, nicely written press release.
While I acknowledge there's some necessity globally, domestic spying through secret courts is more synonymous with the Gulag than the American dream. Stand up for what you believe in; this is one time you can.
In fact, when people do genetic analysis looking for diseases, they routinely throw out all synonymous changes before doing the stats. It makes you wonder how often we miss this when looking for disease genes.
At least in American slang "a tool" is synonymous with someone who is rude, uncaring, and generally arrogant. A "massive tool" is someone who takes all of those properties up a level.
Let's make the term technologist synonymous with a person who understands ethics and technology.
Microsoft is synonymous with software that you use on your desktop and with several botched attempts at doing search. Before you try them again you'd have to see google performing worse than the best that microsoft has ever presented in this field.
Millions of normal not-too-savvy folks use GoDaddy because to them it's synonymous with domain registration. They profoundly do not deserve their sites to be down for that.
Isn't synonymous with "what is your ethnic background?" , especially when there are 3rd and 4th generation Canadians of Asian decent.
Stop confusing your 'country' with your 'nation state' the two are not synonymous. Your country is important because it contains people with whom you share culture, your nation state is a bunch of pieces of paper and lines drawn on a map, if no one believed in these pieces of paper and lines on maps it would cease to exist.
They are synonymous with "internet advertising" and having dealt with a lot of advertising partners, they all seem to end up re-selling Google's ads in one way or another. Its like having three different pizza restaurants but only one kitchen.
That "release" might include, hypothetically, an indemnification, a term which sounds almost synonymous to programmers. It isn't.
Huh, I never realized that "maximum awesomness" was synonymous with "basic functionality".
Think about it: market-societies, or capitalism, are synonymous with firms, companies, corporations. And yet, quite paradoxically, firms can be thought of as market-free zones.
I think his point is that "white" is becoming synonymous with "privileged", and that people are responding by grouping Asians with "whites" because they are increasingly enjoying the same systematic privilege that whites do. The whole privilege debate has always bothered me a bit.
TL;DR for biologists: synonymous codon variation is heavily constrained by the need to maintain transcription factor binding motifs. While I found the article very interesting as a new postgraduate student, it seems like such a straightforward deduction that I find it difficult to believe no one has ever put it into words until now.
'unadulterated hustle' and 'unscrupulous behavior' are surely not synonymous.
I'll be off your lawn in a moment, but first, you might want to consider that just because something can be done the old way doesn't mean that that's superior, that smartphones are in fact very good at showing you new places to go, and that "wanting machines to do tasks that machines are better at than humans" and "helplessness" are not synonymous.
Remnant inventory is also virtually synonymous with Google, which a multinational advertising company which occasionally produces industrial biproducts of advertising which generate non-trivial amounts of value for almost every human alive.
Except it never works that way and you inevitably must actually sit there and learn how indexes work and how queries are parsed and how the optimizer works to a fairly deep level and then sit there on every interesting query and work out which synonymous query will tickle the optimizer into working properly except that you actually can't do that and you end up having to turn to weird annotated comments in the query specific to your database and then you still end up having to break the query into three pieces and manually gluing them together in the client code. And I don't even care to guess how many man-millenia have been poured into that declarative language trying to make it go zoom on a subproblem much simpler than general purpose computing.
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How do you use synonymous in a sentence?
Now that they've chosen the foursquare name, which is synonymous with checkins, for their Yelp clone, it seems like they haven't thought out... 1.
What does synonymous mean?
(of words) meaning the same or nearly the same
What part of speech is synonymous?
synonymous is commonly used as adjective.