(n.) One who investigates the derivation of words.
Example Sentences:
(1) Eagle-eyed etymologists, however, noted that none of the words in the Liberalnaya Demokraticheskaya Partiya are of Slavic origin, so publishing the name of the party proposing the law could be enough to receive a fine.
(2) In the first study of its kind in 90 years, Columbia University etymologists trapped 133 common New York rats , also known as the Norway rat, to examine bugs that piggyback throughout the city.
Lexicographer
Definition:
(n.) The author or compiler of a lexicon or dictionary.
Example Sentences:
(1) The predictive accuracy of four decision-making models--the weighted compensatory choice model, the unweighted compensatory choice model, the lexicographic model, and the conjunctive model--also was determined.
(2) Lexicographers, too, spent time listening, reading, watching and tracking the words of the Iraq war.
(3) The algorithm is based on lexicographical ordering of fragments.
(4) The great lexicographer, of course, is as fat in fame as ever, though more for his piquant remarks to Boswell than for his own writings.
(5) To the lexicographer, the artist, and the reformer, we can add the colonial administrator.
(6) One of the most readily apparent weaknesses in the field of medicolegal studies has been our inability to develop consistent and lexicographically defensible descriptive titles for the field itself.
(7) Comparisons of the distributions of strategies for each group showed that most gifted children integrated dimensional information by addition and many average children used lexicographic strategies.
(8) Despite these methodological improvements, many children, especially 5- to 7-year-olds, evidenced use of centration and lexicographic strategies, suggesting that these classifications are not simply an artifact of problem sampling.
(9) Robert Jay – QC and noted lexicographer – gives his withering take on Jeremy Hunt's use of the word "impactful" June "WMD."
(10) And lexicographers will tell you that language change is similar to regime change: you can plan and prognosticate all you like, but in the end you will always be surprised.
(11) Mentally retarded children relied on a single dimension of the balance scale, but they were more likely to use lexicographic strategies for the inclined plane.
(12) The search for a functional definition of the practice of psychiatry was perhaps at one time an academic or lexicographic exercise, but, with the advent of peer review, it has become a pragmatic matter deserving of earnest attention.
(13) Of course, lexicographers base new entries on the full range of a word's edited, public use; that is, a word's reported use.
(14) The lexicographic model, which postulates that a pharmacist will choose the practice site with the highest performance rating for the most important factor, was the most accurate predictor of respondents' initial practice sites.
(15) A "lively public radio show about words, language, and how we use them" is how this show is described, and its hosts – Martha Barnette , an author, and Grant Barrett , a lexicographer – brilliantly cover everything to do with language: slang, colloquialisms, grammar, word debates, style and usage, dialects and even archaisms.