couch/sofa



vomit/throw up


filbert/hazelnut


car/automobile



big/large


How big is that plane?

Would I be flying on a large or small plane?


Not always we can substitute large for big, consider the example below.

Miss Nelson, for instance, became a kind of big sister to Benjamin.
?Miss Nelson, for instance, became a kind of large sister to Benjamin

Examples of  synonym pairs

When word senses of two different word are identical or nearly identical then those two word senses are called synonyms.
Synonym describe the relationship between senses of words rather than relationship between words.

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There are some relations between word senses which need crucial computational analysis and they are



Synonymy


Antonymy


Taxonomic Relations	


Meronymy


Structured Polysemy

Relations Between Senses

An on-going but a helpful book resource about NLP
https://web.stanford.edu/~jurafsky/slp3/

Speech and Language Processing (3rd ed. draft) 

Synonymy

When word senses of two different word are opposite in meaning then thoses two word senses are called antonyms.
Two words are antonyms if their position on a sacle or direction are oppposite.

Antonymy

Word senses or words can be related taxonomically 

Taxonomic Relations

Meronymy represents the part-whole relation.

A leg is part of a chair;


a wheel is part of a car. 

wheel is a meronym of car, and car is a holonym of wheel.

Meronymy and Holonym

Semantic relationship between senses of a word is called Structured Polysemy.

For example 
The bank is on the corner of Nassau and Witherspoon.


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