I use Gavagai Lexicon extensively to lookup the actual use of words present in everyday online language. So, when the notion of “odor”, for some reason, popped up at the office yesterday, I turned to the Lexicon to see what our self-learning semantic memory has learned about it. The annotated screenshot below shows that the semantic memory knows three fairly distinct meanings of “odor”. The most prominent one has to do with “smell, stench, reeked”. A second meaning has to do with odor as instrumental in alerting people to something else, such as “foul odor alerted residents to dead body”. The third meaning is related to Rougned Odor, second baseman of Texas Rangers.
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