(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.
Gazetteer
Definition:
(n.) A writer of news, or an officer appointed to publish news by authority.
(n.) A newspaper; a gazette.
(n.) A geographical dictionary; a book giving the names and descriptions, etc., of many places.
(n.) An alphabetical descriptive list of anything.
Example Sentences:
(1) UK Press Gazette, the journalists’ trade publication which is running a Save Our Sources campaign, said that 25 police forces had refused to respond to its freedom of information requests for details on their use of the Ripa law.
(2) The announcement that Crosby was being stripped of the knighthood was made in the London Gazette just as the commission's members were locked in negotiations about the conclusions of their final report, which is expected to run to 600 pages.
(3) I’d been away for two weeks and came back last night so confused because all the shops had changed and said Grimsby on them – I thought I was drunk," Bethany Casey, 19, told the local Thurrock Gazette newspaper .
(4) Retail Gazette in the UK has warned that "there is a danger that larger spaces will turn into empty buildings, with only tumbleweed passing through them".
(5) "I was surprised but not that surprised," DNA specialist Vince Evelsizer told the Gazette .
(6) As for those tax exiles and their families living in place like Monaco who have accepted public honours, there should be no hiding place: either they pay back the taxes they should have been paying like everybody else, or, like Fred Goodwin, their honours can be publicly withdrawn in a special issue of the London Gazette.
(7) A Stand Up For The Observer meeting organised by the National Union of Journalists and trade magazine Press Gazette is due to be held at the Friends Meeting House in Euston Road, central London, on Monday, 21 September.
(8) Meanwhile in Brentwood, local paper the Gazette claim a petrol station in the locale has had to close down due to an infestation of rats.
(9) In the early hours of Monday morning, Tsipras published a decree in the official government gazette setting out the capital controls to be imposed on the country.
(10) The two of them composed enticing videos which received thousands of followers and viewers from all over the world within a short period of time,” Mayman told the Saudi Gazette.
(11) In an interview during the campaign with the Glenrothes Gazette, Gordon Brown came close to admitting this.
(12) Paul Dacre, the Daily Mail editor, was given the special award by events organiser Press Gazette, while London Evening Standard investigative reporter Andrew Gilligan was named journalist of the year.
(13) According to the Montreal Gazette, Canadian Pacific's revenues per car have risen 12% in the first quarter since last year, thanks to the oil by rail surge, while 12% of Canadian railroad freight is hazardous material.
(14) Curriculum vitae Age 49 Education Cumnor House prep; Chailey secondary school, East Sussex; Harlow College journalism course Career 1987 reporter, South London News; Streatham and Tooting News 1989 showbusiness editor, the Sun 1994 editor, News of the World 1995 editor, Daily Mirror 2004 sacked 2005 publishes first memoirs; buys Press Gazette 2006 judge, Britain’s Got Talent; launches First News 2009 ITV chatshow host; GQ columnist 2011 replaces Larry King on CNN with Piers Morgan Live 2014 show cancelled, joins Mail Online as editor-at-large (US)
(15) Charlton, who is in his early 60s, previously edited the Sheffield Star for 12 years and before that the Blackpool Evening Gazette.
(16) Guidelines for the protection of privacy in the conduct of medical research have been issued by the National Health and Medical Research Council, approved by the Commonwealth Privacy Commissioner, and gazetted on 1 July 1991 (Commonwealth of Australia Gazette No.
(17) HSBC customers in India suspected of tax evasion have been given 30 days to nominate a legal representative in Switzerland or face seeing their names published in the country’s official gazette.
(18) This is applicable both to major newspapers such as the Wall Street Journal, which implemented its paywall in 1997 and which registered only a 15 % decline in print circulations in the 15 years which followed, and to smaller-market papers such as the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, which adopted its paywall in 2002, and whose print circulation in the second half of 2011 was higher than in 2000.
(19) Drug companies were pouring opioids into West Virginia, delivering 780m painkillers into a state of just 1.8m people over a five year period to 2012, according to an investigation by the Charleston Gazette-Mail .
(20) Dominic Ponsford, editor of the Press Gazette trade publication, said there is a distinction between the Daily Mail, where the stories are carefully checked and put to subjects before publication, and Mail Online.