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Seme vs Semi - What's the difference?

seme | semi |

As nouns the difference between seme and semi

is that seme is anything which serves for any purpose as a substitute for an object of which it is, in some sense, a representation or sign while semi is a semi-detached house.

As a verb seme

is obsolete form of lang=en.

As an adjective seme

is obsolete form of semé|lang=en.

seme

English

Etymology 1

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Noun

(en-noun)
  • (linguistics, semiotics) Anything which serves for any purpose as a substitute for an object of which it is, in some sense, a representation or sign.
    • Related terms
    * semantics * semiotics

    Etymology 2

    Verb

    • Etymology 3

    Noun

    (head)

    • Etymology 4

    Adjective

    (head)
  • * , I.46:
    • I bear Azure seme of trefoiles, a Lions Paw in fæce, Or, armed Gules.

    Etymology 5

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    Noun

    (en-noun)
  • (Japanese fiction) An active or dominant male character in a same-sex relationship; a top.
  • * 2008 , Dru Pagliassotti, "Better Than Romance? Japanese BL Manga and the Subgenre of Male/Male Romantic Fiction", in Boys' Love Manga: Essays on the Sexual Ambiguity and Cross-Cultural Fandom of the Genre (eds. Antonia Levi, Mark McHarry & Dru Pagliassotti), McFarland & Company (2008), ISBN 9780786441952, page 73:
  • * 2010 , Pentabu, My Girlfriend's a Geek , Volume 1, Yen Press (2012), ISBN 9780316221801, unnumbered page:
    • Sebas has always been the seme .
  • * 2011 , Robin E. Brenner & Snow Wildsmith, "Love through a DIfferent Lens: Japanese Homoerotic Manga through the Eyes of American Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender and Other Sexualities Readers", in Mangatopia: Essays on Manga and Anime in the Modern World (eds. Timothy Perper & Martha Cornog), Libraries Unlimited (2011), ISBN 9781591589099, page 97:
    • The seme is larger, stronger, and more traditionally masculine, while the uke is smaller, weaker, and more feminine.
    Antonyms
    * uke

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    semi

    English

    (wikipedia semi)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (UK, Australia, Canada) A semi-detached house.
  • * 2008 , Elliott Placks, quoted in Helen Isbister, Morris Bryant, Property , Career FAQs, Australia, page 40,
    • I?m selling two side-by-side semis that are currently under construction, a waterfront apartment and a house in Rose Bay.
  • * 2008 , Barry Goodchild, Homes, Cities and Neighbourhoods: Planning and the Residential Landscapes of Modern Britain , page 52,
    • The smaller semis of the 1920s and 1930s were closely related to the three bedroom pre-1919 narrow fronted terraces, at least to the larger pre-1919 terraces.
  • A semitrailer; a tractor-trailer; an eighteen-wheeler.
  • * 2011 , Eamonn Duff, Schapelle Corby: The Untold Story Behind Her Ill-Fated Drug Run , Allen & Unwin, Australia, unnumbered page,
    • All night we couldn?t hear each other speak because of the sound of semis changing gear to get over the hill.
  • A semifinal.
  • (slang) A partial erection.
  • * 2010 , Mickey Erlach, Video Boys (page 158)
    • The twink got a semi just from that look.

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