HEADWORD


Meaning of HEADWORD in English

noun

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A typical problem might be to answer the question: How many headwords belong to more than one part of speech?

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.

For example under the headword child is the information that the plural is children rather than childs.

For example, the editor will need to check lists of headwords which begin with lower-case letters.

The format is also comparable, i.e. a headword followed by a list of related words in parentheses.

The irregular inflection will be presented as a headword with a reference to the appropriate root form.

The lemmatised form is simply a convenient representation of the headword lemma.

To reduce overheads when making security copies only headword lemmas are placed in this table.

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