(n.) A book or table, containing a calendar of days, and months, to which astronomical data and various statistics are often added, such as the times of the rising and setting of the sun and moon, eclipses, hours of full tide, stated festivals of churches, terms of courts, etc.
Example Sentences:
(1) The file reads: “It was not possible to determine from our files whether this photographer is identical with captioned individual.” Another section lists Saltzman’s output – Look Back in Anger, The Entertainer – after an officer consulted “the 1963 edition of the International Motion Picture Almanac”.
(2) Expert panel David Kane, NCVO David is a research officer at National Council for Voluntary Organisations (NCVO), leading on the quantitative analysis of data for NCVO's work on the size and scope of civil society, and is an author of the UK Civil Society Almanac from 2008 to 2013, the State and the Voluntary Sector and the UK Voluntary Sector Almanac 2007.
(3) A year later, Seeger joined the Almanac Singers, whose repertoire expressed their identification with the struggle of labour unions; within a further 12 months he had become a card-carrying member of the American Communist party.
(4) It is more likely to be due to observance of Hinoe-Uma (Elder Fire-Horse), which comes round every sixty years by zodiac almanac.
(5) Grandpa Biff in Back to the Future II gave his younger self a vintage sports almanac, enabling him to build a corrupt empire from strategically placed bets and thereby create a parallel dystopia.
(6) The year of Hinoe-Uma occurs once in every 60 years according to the ancient Sino-Japanese almanac.
(7) And in September, comedian Lee Kern penned an open letter to ITV2 claiming they had “helped create a rapists’ almanac” by giving Dapper Laughs a TV show.
(8) Arbuthnot, a descendant of James V of Scotland and heir presumptive to a baronetcy, is described in The Almanac of British Politics as an "austere, desiccated man with a voice likened to that of a speaking clock".
(9) Full moons were defined as three-day periods in the 29.531-day lunar cycle, with the middle day being described in the world almanac as the full moon.
(10) The Almanac Singers in the early 1940, including Pete Seeger (middle) and Woody Gurthrie (first left).
(11) Another friend in California had given me a “Baja Almanac”, an almost homemade topographical ring-bound guide.
(12) The National Council for Voluntary Organisations almanac does indeed show 78% of voluntary organisations receive no public funds – but the great majority are tiny, micro groups, many semi-inactive.
(13) And you know what, if you look at an almanac you'll see how many years it was that Manchester City wasn't wining a title.
Dictionary
Definition:
(n.) A book containing the words of a language, arranged alphabetically, with explanations of their meanings; a lexicon; a vocabulary; a wordbook.
(n.) Hence, a book containing the words belonging to any system or province of knowledge, arranged alphabetically; as, a dictionary of medicine or of botany; a biographical dictionary.
Example Sentences:
(1) The likes of almond, blackberry and crocus first made way for analogue, block graph and celebrity in the Oxford Junior Dictionary in 2007, with protests at the time around the loss of a host of religious words such as bishop, saint and sin.
(2) Finally, the authors used the US Department of Labor Dictionary of Occupational Titles to obtain characterizations of the physical demands and knee-bending stress associated with occupations and to study the relation between physical demands of jobs and osteoarthritis of the knee.
(3) In the era of Donald Trump and Brexit, Oxford Dictionaries has declared “post-truth” to be its international word of the year.
(4) Our Feature Dictionary supports phrase equivalents for features, feature interactions, feature classifications, and translations to the binary features generated by the expert during knowledge creation.
(5) The dictionary was able to record all the morbidity clinically seen with these three treatment schemes.
(6) Despite the dictionary definition of "craving" (a strong desire), two studies indicate that a substantial percentage of persons with alcohol and drug problems use the word "craving" to mean any desire or urge, even a weak one, to use substances.
(7) Unstructured speech samples from 20 institutionalized and 20 noninstitutionalized retarded children were employed using the computerized General Inquirer System and the Harvard III Psychosociological Dictionary.
(8) Its dictionary definition is “a Scots word meaning scrotum, in Scots vernacular a term of endearment but in English could be taken as an insult”.
(9) According to Samuel Lewis's 19th-century Topographical Dictionary of Wales, "several females" drowned while bathing there.
(10) Tony Abbott’s threat to “shirtfront” the Russian president during an international summit this month has prompted a dictionary to broaden its definition of the word beyond its Aussie rules meaning.
(11) Measures of the acceptability of employee drug testing were obtained from a sample of college students (N = 371) and a second sample of nontraditional, older college students (N = 112) and were correlated with job-analysis data from the Position Analysis Questionnaire (PAQ) and Dictionary of Occupational Titles (DOT) databases, and with measures of perceived danger from impaired performance in each job.
(12) The Urban Dictionary defines hipsters as “a subculture of men and women, typically in their 20s and 30s, that value independent thinking, counter-culture, progressive politics”.
(13) The data obtained in the investigation indicate that the term has acquired a specific connotation within the international nursing context and that specific defined attributes distinguishes it from the broad and general definition found in standard dictionaries.
(14) The dictionary defines colonialism as one country taking control of another to exploit its resources or people.
(15) Every couple of minutes brought forth another word from the No-Turning-Back dictionary: "hard", "determined", "secure".
(16) Merkel’s office has not commented on her dictionary nomination so far, though they might arguably have been able to insist the word was rude or discriminatory, on the same grounds that the nominated word “Alpha Kevin”, meaning the “thickest person of all” was removed from Langenscheidt list, after a reported spate of complaints from people called Kevin, or their parents.
(17) Post-truth has now been included in OxfordDictionaries.com, and editors will monitor its future usage to see if it will be included in future editions of the Oxford English Dictionary.
(18) Acute came from acus , Latin for needle, later denoting pointed things, so cute at first meant “acute, clever, keen-witted, sharp, shrewd”, according to the 1933 edition of the Oxford English Dictionary, which doesn’t suggest the term could describe visual appearance.
(19) The Feature Dictionary supports three methods for feature representation: (1) for binary features, (2) for continuous valued features, and (3) for derived features.
(20) Yet the headline piece of provocation was threaded in the visitors’ colours, and foreign media were quickly scrambling for the history books – and the dictionary – upon deciphering the word printed at the bottom of it.