What's the difference between johnsonian and lexicographer?

Johnsonian


Definition:

  • (a.) Pertaining to or resembling Dr. Johnson or his style; pompous; inflated.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In Johnsonian fashion, it said that the truth tellers were corrupt liars in Brussels’ pocket .

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.

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