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Holonymy and Meronomy

  • David Sarmiento
  • Geraldine Sanchez
  • Nathalia Rodriguez
  • Jessica Barrios

What is?

HOLONYMY

The opposite of a meronym is a holonym—the name of the whole of which the meronym is a part.

The whole-to-part relationship is called holonymy. Adjective: holonymous.

The holonym names the whole that materially includes the parts.

HOLONYM

BICYCLE

Example

MERONYM

Pedals

Saddle

Brakes

Wheels

MERONYM

HOLONYM

EXAMPLE

Arm

Hand

Finger

Body

Enterprise is a holonym of boss.

Customers is a holonym of teenagers.

Business Example

Factory is a holonym of machines.

Department is a holonym of human Resources.

Negotiation is a holonym of contract.

Office is a holonym of computer.

EXAMPLES

Accounting is a holonym for numbers.

Product is holonym with price,brand, presentation, color, etc.

Business report is a holonym for objectives.

EXAMPLES

Business plan is a holonym for marketing.

ACTIVITY

Activity

Meronomy

A meronomy or partonomy is a type of hierarchy that deals with the relationships between part and whole, in contrast to a taxonomy whose categorization is based on discrete sets. Consequently, the meronomic classification unit is meron, while the taxonomic classification unit is taxon.

Meronomy

Six - way typology for the meaning of part of

Part of

Component and integral object (Pedal- Bike).

Member and collection (Ship-Fleet).

Portion and mass (Slice- Pie).

Stuff- material and object (steel- car).

Feature and activity (Paying- shopping).

Place and area (Berkeley- California)

Types of Meronymy relation in English

Logical sequence holds for (2) and (4)

Functional component / part to its whole (heart-body; engine-car)

Types of Meronymy

A segment of a pre-existing whole (slices-Cake)

A member to a collection , or an element to a set (sheep-Flock)

Subset to the set (fruit-food - normally considered as a Hyponymy)

Examples

Respiratory system

Example 1

  • Nose
  • Pharynx
  • Tonsils

  • Bronchiole
  • Lugs
  • Alveoli
  • Pleura
  • Larynx
  • Trachea
  • Bronchi

Hand

Wrist

1.

Example 2

Palm

2.

Back

3.

Finger

4.

Company Structure

Business examples

  • Accounts department.
  • Board of directors.
  • Director.
  • Headquarters.
  • Manager.
  • Marketing department.
  • Personnel department.
  • Production department

Computer

Computer

Vocabulary

  • Application
  • Browser
  • byte
  • data
  • file
  • Hardware
  • Keyboard
  • Memory
  • Modem
  • Operating System
  • Mouse
  • screen
  • software

Advertising

Advertising

Vocabulary

  • Ad
  • commercial
  • target
  • poster
  • coupon
  • click
  • Impressions
  • Conversions
  • advertisement
  • AIDA: Attention, Interest, Desire, Action - the objective of all advertisements

Activity

Memory Game

Search for pairs according to their meronym.

https://puzzel.org/es/memory/play?p=-MXjcXNLCUl41Y8jinUB

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