There is little rationale for providing synonyms for names only at the subspecies level, but not for the other categories.
It's not quite ready for primetime yet, but when it is, it aims to inspire people by providing synonyms and rhymes for words that embody their particular project's spirit.
In an experiment by Murphy and Andrew (1993) participants provided synonyms or antonyms for adjectives that were presented in conjunction with a concept, e.g., fresh WATER, fresh AIR or fresh BREAD.
Because providing synonyms to curated terms are counted as matches, the notation of CYP1 → CYP1A1, for example, indicated that the term CYP1 was text mined, which is a valid synonym for the actual underlying curated term CYP1A1 ; alternatively, FZR1 → FZR1 indicated that the text-mined term of FZR1 exactly matched the curated term.
Part II, Vocabulary in a Multilingual Community, offers an up-to-date list of loanwords from the several languages heard in Hawaii which, because they provide additional synonyms for conversation and writing, appeal particularly to speakers of standard English.
To test for this possibility we dissociated the words "beast" and "virus" from the rest of the crime report in Experiment 3. Before reading the crime report, participants were asked to provide a synonym to the word "beast" or the word "virus" – thereby priming representations for a beast or a virus.
To test for this possibility we dissociated the words "beast" and "virus" from the metaphorical frame in Experiment 3. Before reading the crime report, participants were asked to provide a synonym to the word "beast" or the word "virus" – thereby priming representations for a beast or a virus.
Drawing on Yano et al. 1994and Oh (2001) the target collocations were provided with synonyms, antonyms, extra explanations, and rewording the meaning in more simplified language to the students.
FlyBase provides additional synonyms.
