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sheet
  5

It has several interpretations as a noun and as a verb, but they are all related to a flat, thin surface. It is understood as "sheet, sheet of paper, face of a nautical sail, cape or cover, shroud, sheet music, . . . " which can also be used as "the part of the ground that covers a rain" or the "hatch that serves to stretch the sails in a ship". It surely has a proto-Germanic origin, which came into Old English as sceat and evolved in the Middle Ages as schete ("length of cloth").

  
plomos
  10

Plural of lead (several meanings, but all from metal).

  
coyuyos
  6

Plural of the coyuyo insect ( Quesada gigas ) . See cicada.

  
piejos
  8

Plural of piejo ("vulgarism by louse").

  
consumidas
  6

1º_ Plural of consumed ("plunge") . 2º_ Feminine plural of consumed ("reduced in itself for some cause") .

  
interrelaciones
  7

Plural of interrelation ("mutual relation between parts").

  
perniles
  7

Plural of pernil ("leg", "leg and thigh of an animal").

  
sollozantes
  9

Plural of sobbing ("sobbing").

  
guamos
  7

Plural of guamo (tree, musical instrument). See cayambicaranqui/guamo .

  
archisilabismo
  10

More than a linguistic resource, it is a vice of language by which archsyllables ("elongated words with more syllables unnecessarily") are used within sentences, usually to pretend an erudition or technical knowledge that most of the time ends in pomposity or sesquipedalism. For this, prefixes and suffixes are used that are usually redundant because they do not add anything to the concept of the words they modify. They also make use of the periphrasis and the style of culteranism. See pleonasm, polysylabism, ecstasy.

  
éctasis
  8

It is a poetic device where a short syllable is made long to adjust the measure of the verse. From Greek 949; 954; 964; 945; 963; 953; 962; ( ektasis "prolongation, extension" ) . See systole .

  
conciliatio
  5

It is a rhetorical figure where a word mentioned above is used (most of the time by the interlocutor) and the meaning is changed for the purposes of mockery, irony or by simple intellectual play. From Latin conciliatio, onis ("association").

  
metonimia
  5

Literary device by which something is named or described using another name, but which is associated by some characteristic. It is taken from the Greek voices 956; 949; 964; 945; ( put "between, in the middle of" ) 959; 957; 959; 956; 945; ( onoma "name" ) .

  
sesquipedalismo
  7

It is to increase a sentence in letters or words unnecessarily, with a pretentious character as if in that way the speech became more cultured. The etymology is explained in sesquipedal. See culteranism, archisilabism, sesquipedaliophobia.

  
sinónimo
  9

It is said of each word that it has a different one but with the same meaning. Figuratively it is also used to name analogous situations. It consists of the Greek voices 963; 965; 957; ( syn "with , union" ) 959; 957; 959; 956; 945; ( onoma "name" ) .

  
diéresis
  7

1º_ Diacritic sign in the form of two horizontal points ( ? ) that in Spanish is used only in the syllables 'güe' and 'güi' to indicate that the /u/ is pronounced . See cream . It has a Greek origin in 948; 953; 945; 953; 961; 949; 963; 953; 962; ( diairesis "division, separation" ) . 2º_ In grammar it is the separation of two vowels that would normally form a diphthong. See diastole . 3º_ In surgery is the procedure to section tissues.

  
párison
  9

Parity, symmetry, balance between two terms of a sentence. See bimemberment .

  
fb
  10

Among the abbreviated forms of writing of social networks 'FB' is used to mention Facebook.

  
mn
  9

1º_ 'Mn' is the chemical symbol for manganese. 2º_ ' . mn' is the internet domain for Mongolia. 3º_ In Spanish 'MN' appears, although very little, as an abbreviation of "mother nature". Also as a version of m. n . ("national currency") . In computing it is an acronym for Microsoft Network.

  
bc
  5

In Spanish it is an acronym that is used with various developments, such as "low calories", "cultural good" or "Central Bank".

  






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