Meaning of dictionary | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Nickname for a swot or studious person, or one who uses needlessly complicated words.
2. A reference work listing words or names from one or more languages, usually ordered alphabetically, explaining each word's meanings or senses, oftentimes also containing information on its etymology, pronunciation, usage, semantic relations, translations, as well as other relevant information.
3. An alphabetical list of words often defined or translated:glossary, lexicon, vocabulary, wordbook.
4. A reference work on a particular subject or activity in which the entries are arranged alphabetically; an alphabetical encyclopedia.
   broadly
5. A reference work containing an alphabetical list of words, with information given for each word, usually including meaning, pronunciation, and etymology.
6. A person or thing regarded as a repository or compendium of information.
   figuratively
7. A reference work containing an alphabetical list of words in one language with their translations in another language.
8. The collection of words used or understood by a particular person; vocabulary.
   derogatory, especially, possessive, with-of
9. A list of words stored in machine-readable form for reference, as by spelling-checking software.
10. A synchronic dictionary of a standardised language held to only contain words that are properly part of the language.
11. (Library Science & Bibliography) a. a reference resource, in printed or electronic form, that consists of an alphabetical list of words with their meanings and parts of speech, and often a guide to accepted pronunciation and syllabification, irregular inflections of words, derived words of different parts of speech, and etymologies
12. An associative array, a data structure where each value is referenced by a particular key, analogous to words and definitions in a dictionary (noun sense 1).
13. (Library Science & Bibliography) a reference publication listing words or terms of a particular subject or activity, giving information about their meanings and other attributes: a dictionary of gardening.
14. (Library Science & Bibliography) a collection of information or examples with the entries alphabetically arranged: a dictionary of quotations.
15. a book containing a selection of the words of a language, usu. arranged alphabetically, with information about their meanings, pronunciations, etymologies, inflected forms, etc., expressed in either the same or another language.
16. a book giving information on particular subjects or on a particular class of words, names, or facts, usu. arranged alphabetically: a biographical dictionary.
17. a list of words used by a word-processing program to check spellings in text.

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Examples

“If you want to know the meaning of a word, look it up in the dictionary.”

“But what other kind(s) of syntactic information should be included in Lexical Entries? Traditional dictionaries such as Hornby's (1974) Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary of Current English include not only categorial information in their entries, but also information about the range of Complements which a given item permits (this information is represented by the use of a number/letter code).”

“a law dictionary”

“a dictionary of sports”

“Look it up in the dictionary, and what do you find?”

“By 1986 the name Walkman was included as a word in the English dictionary.”

“User calls RouteCollection.GetVirtualPath, passing in a RequestContext, a dictionary of values, and an optional route name used to select the correct route to generate the URL.”

“His friends called him "Dictionary." There were other names they called him that were far worse.”

“He won a scholarship to a prestigious British inspired secondary school, Government College in Umuahia, and also gained a reputation for knowledge in his home village, where they called him Dictionary.”

“Hillis Brown turned toward Simon and whispered, "Hey, DICtionary^([sic]), don't worry, just because you sing like Johnny doesn't mean you gotta be a faggot."”

“Meanwhile, he applied himself so diligently to his formal education that schoolmates called him “Dictionary.” This effort won him admission to a British-run boarding school with an excellent library.”

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