noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
the dictionary definition
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Some doctors don’t accept the dictionary definition of euthanasia, and want to create different categories of assisted death.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
general
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For this reason, the general collocation dictionary is suggested as the more appropriate.
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In the second investigation, a general collocation dictionary was tested using the same document.
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The domain-specific dictionaries made a significant contribution to each respective domain-specific text, but so did the general dictionary.
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The domain-specific dictionary appears to perform slightly better than the general dictionary.
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More general dictionaries tend to define grammatical information less formally than these learners dictionaries.
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In fact, for many domains the general dictionary outperformed the specific.
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Furthermore, there were other reasons why a general dictionary was to be preferred over the domain-specific dictionaries.
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The specific dictionaries show a standard deviation of 9.95%, whereas for the general dictionaries this figure is only 5.95%.
medical
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I disdained to consult a medical dictionary , however.
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This term has been found in medical dictionaries since 1811.
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It's worse than a medical dictionary , that is.
new
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Perhaps, as my niece would say, I should buy myself a new dictionary .
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The new dictionary lays great store by so-called political correctness, especially where women are concerned.
other
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This gives the spelling of words not always included in other dictionaries , e.g. kidnapped.
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Since this work has been carried out other dictionaries have also become available.
specific
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Evidently, this particular specific dictionary is only of use in recognising text from its own domain.
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This variation in performance is further reflected by the higher standard deviation of the specific dictionaries .
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Regular inflected forms of words are not given their own specific dictionary definitions.
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The specific dictionaries have a superior average, but their performance is inconsistent.
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The specific dictionaries show a standard deviation of 9.95%, whereas for the general dictionaries this figure is only 5.95%.
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Thirdly, specific dictionaries are less reliable due to their inconsistency.
standard
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The required list of words, or lexicon, can be acquired from a standard dictionary in machine readable form.
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If you know how to use a standard dictionary and thesaurus, you can use the electronic edition.
■ NOUN
definition
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The dictionary definitions contain the information about the irregular derivations.
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You can see from the dictionary definition that compassion involves both a feeling and an action.
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Hence the expansion of dictionary definitions descends into progressive generality, displaying a weaker and weaker semantic relationship with the original word.
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And this is fortunate, because like most speakers, I find some dictionary definitions remote from my own usage.
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Collocations are similar to dictionary definitions in as much as they can be expressed as a headword followed by a list of semantically related words.
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In particular, dictionary definitions and co-occurrence statistics have been identified as valuable sources of semantic information.
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Not all the information present within dictionary definitions is of use for handwriting recognition.
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If one investigates the format commonly used in dictionary definitions it is clear that there are some conventions that are followed.
entry
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The knowledge structures used to represent the dictionary entries are known as integrated semantic units, or ISUs.
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It is individual characters that form the basis for dictionary entries .
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Proofs of dictionary entries have two principal forms.
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Each dictionary entry is divided up into sequences of the required gram length.
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Reports showing the status of given dictionary entries will, however, be available on request.
■ VERB
compile
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In his first book, Talking With Horses, he even went to the extent of compiling a dictionary of horse vocabulary!
find
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And this is fortunate, because like most speakers, I find some dictionary definitions remote from my own usage.
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This term has been found in medical dictionaries since 1811.
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We tend to expect pupils to find words in dictionaries , because we assume it is a skill which is simply acquired.
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Security is a word I found in a dictionary .
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A number of tags are missing from the Text710 tagset because they are for word types that are not found in dictionaries .
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The spelling checker highlights words which are not found in the dictionary .
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Such information can be found in machine readable dictionaries and corpora.
make
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Jackson's has bought the rights, and Jackson's could make a Coptic dictionary into a best-seller if they tried.
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Fewer assumptions are made in such dictionaries about the linguistic competence of the user.
put
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You can also view the open-plan attic, in which Johnson and his six helpers put together the dictionary .
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Another useful resource is offered by the possibility of putting very large dictionaries on to a single compact disc.
use
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The knowledge structures used to represent the dictionary entries are known as integrated semantic units, or ISUs.
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If you know how to use a standard dictionary and thesaurus, you can use the electronic edition.
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Some programs, PageMaker for example, only use an exception dictionary .
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It is suggested that semantic analysis using machine-readable dictionaries is restricted to their definitions and not their expansions.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
walking dictionary/encyclopedia
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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a dictionary of business terms
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a Korean-English dictionary
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A dictionary is useless unless one already knows the meanings of many words.
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Despite the competition, Merriam-Webster still accounts for about half of the 2 million dictionaries sold annually in the United States.
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It's worse than a medical dictionary , that is.
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Only letter strings which appeared in this dictionary were considered to be correct.
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The first step towards achieving this task is to use the information present in the machine readable dictionaries.
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To eliminate or locate colloquial words there are dictionaries of slang.
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Word families and dictionary work Best for individual and pair work.