Looking up Gravity, Rainbow, in WordNet.

[Glenn Scheper]

The second easy thing I tried was to install "WordNet",
a freeware world-knowledge ontology tool. It has an API
to employ it in some program. (What should I write...?)
I only tried the Windows GUI version, easily installed:

http://wordnet.princeton.edu/

I tried out our two words, gravity, and rainbow, and paste here
their overviews, and various other views, such as were offered:

The 22Kb of output text I broke into 4 emails.
Part 1 of 4:


The noun gravity has 3 senses (first 2 from tagged texts)
                                        
1. (3) gravity, gravitation, gravitational attraction, gravitational force -- ((physics) the force of attraction between all masses in the universe; especially the attraction of the earth's mass for bodies near its surface; "the more remote the body the less the gravity"; "the gravitation between two bodies is proportional to the product of their masses and inversely proportional to the square of the distance between them"; "gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love"--Albert Einstei
2. (1) graveness, gravity, sobriety, soberness, somberness, sombreness -- (a manner that is serious and solemn)
3. gravity, solemnity -- (a solemn and dignified feeling)


The noun rainbow has 2 senses (first 1 from tagged texts)
                                        
1. (2) rainbow -- (an arc of colored light in the sky caused by refraction of the sun's rays by rain)
2. rainbow -- (an illusory hope; "chasing rainbows")


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Display synonyms and immediate hypernyms of synsets containing 
the search string.  Synsets are ordered by frequency of occurrence.  

Hypernym is the generic term used to designate a whole class of 
specific instances.  Y is a hypernym of X if X is a (kind of) Y. 

Hypernym synsets are preceded by "=>". 

3 senses of gravity                                                     

Sense 1
gravity, gravitation, gravitational attraction, gravitational force -- ((physics) the force of attraction between all masses in the universe; especially the attraction of the earth's mass for bodies near its surface; "the more remote the body the less the gravity"; "the gravitation between two bodies is proportional to the product of their masses and inversely proportional to the square of the distance between them"; "gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love"--Albert Einstein)
       => attraction, attractive force -- (the force by which one object attracts another)

Sense 2
graveness, gravity, sobriety, soberness, somberness, sombreness -- (a manner that is serious and solemn)
       => seriousness, earnestness, serious-mindedness, sincerity -- (the trait of being serious; "a lack of solemnity is not necessarily a lack of seriousness"- Robert Rice)

Sense 3
gravity, solemnity -- (a solemn and dignified feeling)
       => feeling -- (the experiencing of affective and emotional states; "she had a feeling of euphoria"; "he had terrible feelings of guilt"; "I disliked him and the feeling was mutual")



2 senses of rainbow                                                     

Sense 1
rainbow -- (an arc of colored light in the sky caused by refraction of the sun's rays by rain)
       => bow, arc -- (something curved in shape)

Sense 2
rainbow -- (an illusory hope; "chasing rainbows")
       => promise, hope -- (grounds for feeling hopeful about the future; "there is little or no promise that he will recover")


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Display synsets containing direct anotnyms of the search string.  

Direct antonyms are a pair of words between which there is an 
associative bond built up by co-occurrences. 

Antonym synsets are preceded by "=>". 

1 of 3 senses of gravity                                                

Sense 3
gravity, solemnity -- (a solemn and dignified feeling)
       Antonym of levity (Sense 1)
      =>levity -- (feeling an inappropriate lack of seriousness)


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