English noun: omission |
1. | omission (act) a mistake resulting from neglect |
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| Synonyms | skip |
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| Broader (hypernym) | error, fault, mistake |
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| Narrower (hyponym) | failure |
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2. | omission (state) something that has been omitted |
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| Samples | She searched the table for omissions.
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| Broader (hypernym) | disuse, neglect |
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3. | omission (process) any process whereby sounds or words are left out of spoken words or phrases |
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| Synonyms | deletion |
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| Broader (hypernym) | linguistic process |
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| Narrower (hyponym) | aphaeresis, apheresis, aphesis, eclipsis, elision, ellipsis |
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4. | omission (cognition) neglecting to do something; leaving out or passing over something |
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| Broader (hypernym) | disregard, neglect |
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| Narrower (hyponym) | elision, exception, exclusion, inadvertence, oversight, pretermission |
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