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Sanctions Over Ukraine
A sanction may be either a permission or a restriction, depending upon context, as the word is an auto-antonym. Examples of sanctions include: Government and law * Sanctions (law), penalties imposed by courts * Economic sanctions, typically a ban on trade, possibly limited to certain sectors (such as armaments), or with certain exceptions (such as food and medicine), e.g., ** Sanctions against Iran ** Sanctions against North Korea * International sanctions, coercive measures adopted by a country or a group of countries against another state or individual(s) in order to elicit a change in their behavior ** International sanctions during the Russo-Ukrainian War * Pragmatic sanction, historically, a sovereign's solemn decree which addresses a matter of primary importance and which has the force of fundamental law Arts, entertainment, and media * ''The Eiger Sanction'' (novel), a 1972 thriller novel by Trevanian, the pen name of Rodney William Whitaker * ''The Eiger Sanction'' (f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Auto-antonym
A contronym or contranym is a word with two Opposite (semantics), opposite word sense, meanings. For example, the word ''wikt:original, original'' can mean "authentic, traditional", or "novel, never done before". This feature is also called enantiosemy, enantionymy (''wikt:enantio-#Prefix, enantio-'' means "opposite"), antilogy or autoantonymy. An enantiosemic term is by definition polysemy, polysemic. Nomenclature A contronym is alternatively called an ''autantonym'', ''auto-antonym'', ''antagonym'', ''enantiodrome'', ''enantionym'', ''Janus word'' (after the Roman god Janus, who is usually depicted with two faces), ''self-antonym'', ''antilogy'', or ''addad'' (Arabic, singular ''didd''). Linguistic mechanisms Some pairs of contronyms are true homographs, i.e., distinct words with different etymology, etymologies which happen to have the same form. For instance ''cleave'' "separate" is from Old English language, Old English ''clēofan'', while ''cleave'' "adhere" is from Ol ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |