(n.) The circle of arts and sciences; a comprehensive summary of knowledge, or of a branch of knowledge; esp., a work in which the various branches of science or art are discussed separately, and usually in alphabetical order; a cyclopedia.
Example Sentences:
(1) They are all newspaper editors who have been roundly ignored by online encyclopaedia Wikipedia .
(2) Now the Wikimedia Foundation, the non-profit group which runs the collaboratively edited encyclopaedia, has posted the notices of removal from Google online .
(3) Diagnostic Encyclopaedia Workstation (DEW) is the name of a digital encyclopaedia constructed to contain reference knowledge with respect to the pathology of the ovary.
(4) A block on all language editions of the online encyclopaedia was detected at 5am GMT on Saturday, monitoring group Turkey Blocks said on its website.
(5) My mother promoted my intellectual tendencies and one of my great Christmas presents was Arthur Mee's Children's Encyclopaedia, which I consumed.
(6) Jimmy Wales , co-founder of Wikipedia, said that as a result of the revelations about surveillance, the collaborative online encyclopaedia will begin encrypting communications with its users all over the world so that people cannot be spied on as they access information.
(7) "I sold encyclopaedias in New Orleans, I was a social worker in Haringey.
(8) He cut up a 10-volume illustrated Larousse encyclopaedia he'd bought in Bath, apparently using 32 pairs of scissors, and his collage technique helps depict such Thomas phrases as "slow clocks" (cue for several whirring time-pieces) or "the boys are dreaming wicked" (two pin-ups and touches of a Wild West rodeo).
(9) The centuries which followed witnessed a wealth of descriptions which, thanks in particular to the works of Celsus, Galen and the Arab authors, led to the formation of true medical encyclopaedias, although the diagnosis of skin diseases could not be approached.
(10) The stories of Ibori's "generosity" are enough to fill the pages of an encyclopaedia.
(11) Roth has recently turned his attentions towards trying to persuade Wikipedia , the collaborative online encyclopaedia, to let him adjust an inaccurate description of his novel, The Human Stain.
(12) Bishop, a walking encyclopaedia of house practice, knew the result of naming a Labor member.
(13) However, the episode was airbrushed away on the online encyclopaedia.
(14) A Freedom of Information request , which would reveal whether MPs and peers were engaging in “astroturfing” on the crowdsourced encyclopaedia, was turned down on the basis that “releasing the information would be likely to prejudice the prevention or detection of crime.” The @ParliamentEdits Twitter account, set up by the journalist and developer Tom Scott, was designed to automatically tweet whenever Wikipedia was edited by someone within the Houses of Parliament.
(15) The update places results pulled from Google’s Knowledge Graph – a database containing encyclopaedia entries on about 570m concepts, relationships, facts and figures – under small popup information panels next to search results.
(16) Caliendo, 61, found early success selling encyclopaedias door-to-door, rose up the ranks of the De Agostini publishing group, then in 1979 fixed what were thought to be the first personal endorsements by an Italian footballer, for the international playmaker Giancarlo Antognoni.
(17) Wikipedia has been forced to ban users inside the US Congress building from making edits to the collaborative encyclopaedia, after at least one member of staff began trolling the site.
(18) Now, what else can I tell you?” He mulls something over, then says: “No, I can’t tell you that.” We are in the office of DK Books, which is publishing an exhaustive new Star Wars encyclopaedia to which Daniels has contributed the foreword.
(19) Back in 2004, Berger's debut, Torremolinos 73 , a terrific, oddball sex comedy about husband and wife amateur pornographers during the Franco regime (their first home movies are for the cheekily disingenuous World Audiovisual Encyclopaedia of Reproduction) was a critical and commercial hit.
(20) Images on the world’s largest encyclopaedia must be licensed in such a way that they can be re-used under the same free license that the site itself is licensed.
Encyclopedia
Definition:
(n.) Alt. of Encyclopaedia
Example Sentences:
(1) Indeed, as the Russian encyclopedia for its practitioners concluded: “Information war … is in many places replacing standard war.” The idea was clear enough.
(2) During the survey, the common folk medicine plants used by women were recorded and Ayurvedic and Unani drug encyclopedias were consulted for the antireproductive potential of these plants.
(3) Named Siri after the startup company which developed it and was bought by Apple in April 2010, the voice activation also links through to a non-Google search engine, Wolfram Alpha, which offers a type of online encyclopedia database of facts and theories.
(4) How could we get millions of people to work together, across borders and perspectives, without pay, to build a reliable, accurate encyclopedia?
(5) Overnight, there were more than 100 modifications to the online encyclopedia’s page on Haut Ogooué, a Gabonese province.
(6) The proliferation of weblogs, and particularly the success of the user-edited encyclopedia Wikipedia, prove that democratising the online space can have wide-ranging and legitimate uses.
(7) Information war was less about methods of persuasion and more about “influencing social relations” But when I began to pore over recent Russian military theory – in history books and journals – the strange language of the encyclopedia began to make more sense.
(8) And later: "I'm a human being, not a walking encyclopedia."
(9) It was the loss of his childhood encyclopedia that brought home the heartbreak.
(10) They are doing it every minute of every day in indexed web searches, in blogs, in books, in email, in maps, in news, in photos, in videos, in their own encyclopedia.
(11) In one instance "Blame Liverpool fans" was anonymously added to the Hillsborough section of the online encyclopedia.
(12) Albucasis taught medicine at the university of Cordoba and published an encyclopedia of medicine comprising 30 volumes, the last one dealing with surgery.
(13) So the state doesn’t switch on its self-defence mechanisms.” If regular war is about actual guns and missiles, the encyclopedia continues, “information war is supple, you can never predict the angle or instruments of an attack”.
(14) Perhaps the encyclopedia, and talk of “invisible radiation” that could override “biological defences”, was simply one more bluff – like the fake nuclear weapons that were paraded through Red Square in order to lead overeager western analysts down a hall of mirrors.
(15) This paper describes such a system (a "diagnostic encyclopedia workstation"), which provides information to the pathologist engaged in daily diagnostic practice.
(16) The only reason we know about this block is because of how Wikipedia handles its own blacklist – a list of IP addresses that have been used recently in vandalism against the encyclopedia.
(17) The first image was the one most preferred by the patient; the second was the one determined by the experimenter to represent the most successful mastery of developmental stages according to the schemata outlined by Erickson (International Encyclopedia of Social Sciences, Vol.
(18) "The Merck Index", an internationally recognized encyclopedia of drugs, chemicals, and biologicals was produced by the traditional method for eight consecutive editions.
(19) The revelations come after it emerged that Shapps had changed his entry in the online encyclopedia to correct the number of O-levels he obtained.
(20) The "Hager", undoubtedly a practical, indispensable encyclopedia of more than 10,000 pages is to be found in every German pharmacy.