• A dictionary is a listing of lexemes from the lexicon of one or more specific languages, often arranged alphabetically (or by consonantal root for Semitic languages or radical and stroke for logographic languages), which may include information on definitions, usage, etymologies, pronunciations, translation, etc. (wikipedia.org)
  • [3] Nevertheless, the Chinese made their dictionaries, and developed three original systems for lexicographical ordering: semantic categories, graphic components, and pronunciations. (wikipedia.org)
  • NAVER English Dictionary features pronunciations provided by various trusted dictionaries. (google.com)
  • There are other types of dictionaries that do not fit neatly into the above distinction, for instance bilingual (translation) dictionaries, dictionaries of synonyms (thesauri), and rhyming dictionaries. (wikipedia.org)
  • The first recorded dictionaries date back to Sumerian times around 2300 BCE, in the form of bilingual dictionaries, and the oldest surviving monolingual dictionaries are Chinese dictionaries c. 3rd century BCE. (wikipedia.org)
  • The oldest known dictionaries were cuneiform tablets with bilingual Sumerian-Akkadian wordlists, discovered in Ebla (modern Syria) and dated to roughly 2300 BCE, the time of the Akkadian Empire. (wikipedia.org)
  • The following provide links to monolingual dictionary resources (one language), bilingual dictionary resources (two languages) and multilingual dictionary resources (several languages). (lu.se)
  • dictionary definitions. (yahoo.com)
  • The primary content on Dictionary.com is a proprietary dictionary based on Random House Unabridged Dictionary, with editors for the site providing new and updated definitions. (yahoo.com)
  • Nov 2, 2023 · Get America's most useful and respected dictionary , optimized for your Android device. (yahoo.com)
  • The word dictionary (unqualified) is usually understood to refer to a general purpose monolingual dictionary. (wikipedia.org)
  • Another recommended monolingual dictionary is the Oxford English Dictionary (OED). (lu.se)
  • Use this tool to search for dictionary entries in all lexica. (tufts.edu)
  • The following dictionary interactive search boxes are strong recommendations for monolingual dictionaries. (lu.se)
  • It's the Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary on online version in which words must be typed on search box. (bvsalud.org)
  • A Tibetan-English dictionary : with Sanskrit synonyms / by Sarat Chandra Das, Rai Bahadur, C.I.E. (oeaw.ac.at)
  • the formal statement of the meaning or significance of a word, phrase, idiom, etc., as found in dictionaries. (yahoo.com)
  • For example, the Cambridge Dictionaries Online consists of several types of dictionaries, featuring a choice between an advanced learner's dictionary, an idiom dictionary, and a phrasal verb dictionary. (lu.se)
  • Please leave your inquiry with NAVER English Dictionary Customer Center ( https://help.naver.com/service/24549/category/bookmark?lang=en ) in case a problem occurs while using the app. (google.com)
  • https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​web/​t/tabernacle.html. (studylight.org)
  • https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​web/​m/martyred.html. (studylight.org)
  • In particular, we employ the orthogonality-promoting regularization to mitigate correlations among dictionary atoms. (aaai.org)
  • Iconographic or Pre-Stokoean era dictionaries employ analogical representation, resorting to mimicry, pantomime and gestures. (bvsalud.org)
  • Linguistic or Stokoean era dictionaries employ linguistic representation strategy based on the description of discrete recombinative units pertaining to hand-shape, articulation place, movement and facial expression. (bvsalud.org)
  • Contemporary or Post-Stokoean era dictionaries employ both, analogical and linguistic representation strategies. (bvsalud.org)
  • The first Sanskrit dictionary, the Amarakośa, was written by Amarasimha c. 4th century CE. (wikipedia.org)
  • There are three periods in sign language lexicography (pre-Stokoean, Stokoean, and post-Stokoean), each with its own lexicographic strategy for designing sign language dictionaries. (bvsalud.org)
  • The paper compares lexicographic strategies used in six classical sign language dictionaries, which pertain to one or another of the three eras of sign language lexicography. (bvsalud.org)
  • Registration is open for Linguistic Databases: Dictionary, Grammar, or Dataset Repository? (lu.se)
  • There are hundreds of dictionaries for the Chinese language , and this article discusses some of the most important. (wikipedia.org)
  • For the purpose of maximizing pragmatic efficacy of sign language dictionaries, the paper discusses the importance of graphic illustrations and sign form descriptions emphasizing how sign form is inspired by sign meaning. (bvsalud.org)
  • Samuel Johnson defined dictionary as "a book containing the words of any language in alphabetical order, with explanations of their meaning" in his dictionary . (wikipedia.org)
  • The meaning of DICTIONARY DEFINITION is a definition reporting established meanings or uses of words or symbols. (yahoo.com)
  • The documentation includes this abstract, pertinent information about the file, a glossary, code lists, and a data dictionary. (cdc.gov)
  • It's a medical dictionary for healthcare consumers which presents its content in alphabetical order. (bvsalud.org)
  • Go beyond dictionary lookups with Word of the Day, facts and observations on language, lookup trends, and wordplay from the editors at Merriam-Webster Dictionary. (merriam-webster.com)
  • No other dictionary matches M-W's accuracy and scholarship in defining word meanings. (merriam-webster.com)
  • In theory, general dictionaries are supposed[citation needed] to be semasiological, mapping word to definition, while specialized dictionaries are supposed to be onomasiological, first identifying concepts and then establishing the terms used to designate them. (wikipedia.org)
  • For a language written in an alphabet or syllabary , dictionaries are usually ordered alphabetically. (wikipedia.org)
  • Al-Khalil ibn Ahmad al-Farahidi's 8th century Kitab al-'Ayn is considered the first dictionary of Arabic. (wikipedia.org)
  • Al-Zamakhshari wrote a small Arabic dictionary called "Muḳaddimetü'l-edeb" for the Turkic-Khwarazm ruler Atsiz. (wikipedia.org)
  • The newborn dictionary was printed several times, the first by the Iraqi Arabic Academy in 1973. (who.int)
  • the Unified Dictionary of Dentistry (English-Arabic and Arabic-English), the Unified Dictionary of Pharmacy (English-Arabic), and the Unified Dictionary of Anatomy. (who.int)
  • While in Mamluk Egypt, Ebû Hayyân el-Endelüsî finished his work "Kitâbü'l-İdrâk li-lisâni'l-Etrâk", a dictionary about the Kipchak and Turcoman languages spoken in Egypt and the Levant. (wikipedia.org)
  • zidian (character/logograph dictionary) for written forms, that is, Chinese characters , and cidian (word/phrase dictionary), for spoken forms. (wikipedia.org)
  • This is normally used to create a view to prevent modification of the dictionary for non-dynamic class types. (python.org)
  • Depending on the purpose of writing and the level of your proficiency, different types of dictionaries will be needed. (lu.se)
  • and some sources cite the Shizhoupian (probably compiled sometime between 700 BCE to 200 BCE, possibly earlier) as a "dictionary", although modern scholarship considers it a calligraphic compendium of Chinese characters from Zhou dynasty bronzes. (wikipedia.org)
  • The circa 3rd-century BCE Erya ( 爾雅 "Approaching Correctness") is the oldest extant Chinese dictionary, and scholarship reveals that it is a pre-Qin compilation of glosses to classical texts. (wikipedia.org)
  • A Dictionary of Psychology is an invaluable work of reference for students and teachers of psychology and related disciplines, professionals, and is ideally suited to anyone with an interest in the workings of the mind. (oxfordreference.com)
  • As should be self-evident, a dictionary is an invaluable tool, not only for the language learner, but also when engaged in the writing process. (lu.se)
  • The systematic study of dictionaries as objects of scientific interest arose as a 20th-century enterprise, called lexicography, and largely initiated by Ladislav Zgusta. (wikipedia.org)
  • WELCOME to NAVER English Dictionary! (google.com)
  • Your pronunciation will be shared with other users of NAVER English dictionary, helping them learn how words are pronounced in different parts of the world! (google.com)
  • Specialized dictionaries include words in specialist fields, rather than a complete range of words in the language. (wikipedia.org)
  • A 9th-century CE Irish dictionary, Sanas Cormaic, contained etymologies and explanations of over 1,400 Irish words. (wikipedia.org)
  • It is possible to achieve a time-space tradeoff by pre-computing a list of hashes of dictionary words and storing these in a database using the hash as the key . (wikipedia.org)
  • It has really neat features like a dictionary for words, word of the day, and etc. (google.com)
  • For example, "How many words start with gy are in the dictionary. (enchantedlearning.com)
  • iOS 9 has a useful auto-correct dictionary that keeps tracks of the words you use. (cio.com)
  • Unfortunately, the dictionary will sometimes learn incorrect words and then those words will show up again via Auto-Correction. (cio.com)
  • If you've used your iOS device for a long time then you may have taught the dictionary many incorrect words, and it can be quite maddening to see them appear over and over again while you are typing an email or text message. (cio.com)
  • Strong recommendations for this type of resource when translating between Swedish and English are the comprehensive dictionaries published by Norstedts. (lu.se)
  • This data dictionary specifies data elements that are used to describe the design, fabrication and inspection of weldments. (nist.gov)
  • The data dictionary provides, in one document, the welding information needed to develop format specifications for digital data that can be exchanged by computer programs. (nist.gov)
  • Main interface class enabling users to operate on data dictionary. (mysql.com)
  • Such a regularization, encouraging the dictionary atoms to be close to being orthogonal, can alleviate overfitting to training data and improve the discrimination of the model. (aaai.org)
  • Technical notes on the use of nesting variables and sample weights are at the end of this data dictionary. (cdc.gov)
  • Chinese dictionaries date back over two millennia to the Han dynasty , which is a significantly longer lexicographical history than any other language. (wikipedia.org)
  • The Han dynasty dictionary Xiao Erya ( 小爾雅 "Little Erya") reduces these 19 to 13 chapters. (wikipedia.org)
  • It targets at finding the dictionary over which the training set admits a maximally sparse representation. (aaai.org)
  • Although many hierarchical priors have been used to promote the sparsity of the representation in non-parametric Bayesian DL, the problem of redundancy for the dictionary is still overlooked, which greatly decreases the performance of sparse coding. (aaai.org)
  • A Regularized Expectation Maximization Algorithm is developed to estimate the posterior distribution of the representation and dictionary with orthogonality-promoting regularization. (aaai.org)
  • The authors' intent in writing this dictionary is to provide a concise, clear, up-to-date, accurate use of terms to be used when communicating scientific information in the field of parasitology. (cdc.gov)
  • The experimentation carried out demonstrates how our proposal greatly outperforms the most popular predefined dictionaries in terms of inter-marker distance and how the optimization process significantly improves them. (bvsalud.org)
  • Additionally, part of the proposed method can be used to optimize preexisting dictionaries to take reflection into account. (bvsalud.org)
  • A broad distinction is made between general and specialized dictionaries. (wikipedia.org)
  • The Unified Medical Dictionary (UMD) is an important tool that will end the painful fact of duality of language used by health professionals to communicate with their families, friends and fellow citizens. (who.int)
  • Signs, symptoms, and diagnoses reported to VAERS are assigned Medical Dictionary for Regulatory Activities (MedDRA) preferred terms (PTs) by VAERS staff members. (medscape.com)
  • In the 14th century, the Codex Cumanicus was finished and it served as a dictionary about the Cuman-Turkic language. (wikipedia.org)