(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.
Writer
Definition:
(n.) One who writes, or has written; a scribe; a clerk.
(n.) One who is engaged in literary composition as a profession; an author; as, a writer of novels.
(n.) A clerk of a certain rank in the service of the late East India Company, who, after serving a certain number of years, became a factor.
Example Sentences:
(1) Her novels have an enduring and universal appeal and she is recognised as one of the greatest writers in English literature.
(2) "The best artists, the best writers, the best directors are coming from movies and into television.
(3) The award for nonfiction went to New Yorker staff writer Evan Osnos for his book on modern China, Age of Ambition .
(4) Superman fans are up in arms at the decision of the publisher to appoint a noted anti-gay writer to pen the Man of Steel's latest adventures.
(5) Jeanne Haffner is a historian and writer based in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
(6) An untiring advocate of the joys and merits of his adopted home county, Bradbury figured Norfolk as a place of writing parsons, farmer-writers and sensitive poets: John Skelton, Rider Haggard, John Middleton Murry, William Cowper, George MacBeth, George Szirtes.
(7) The writer Palesa Morudu told me that she sees, in the South African pride that "we did it", a troubling anxiety that we can't: "Why are we celebrating that we built stadiums on time?
(8) Louis CK is exploding a few myths about one of pop culture's most hallowed spaces, the sitcom writers' room.
(9) From a study bearing upon 26 patients suffering from a cerebral circulatory insufficiency induced by a stenosis or a thrombosis, the writers analyse the part played by Hyperbare Oxygen in the neurologic evolution.
(10) "What this proves is that the way Bowie engineered his comeback was a stroke of genius," said music writer Simon Price.
(11) Limits are a relief, because they concentrate the drama and free the writer from the torture of choice, as Aristotle knew when he advised playwrights to preserve "the unities" by telling one story in one place over a single day.
(12) The writer John Lanchester concedes that democracies will always need spies, but reading the Snowden documents persuaded him that piecing together habits of thought from internet searches takes things far beyond conventional spying: “Google doesn’t just know you’re gay before you tell your mum; it knows you’re gay before you do.
(13) For a writer barely out of his teens when it was published, in 1946, the book was an unusual achievement.
(14) Curriculum writers and instructors of preservice elementary teachers could be more effective if they were aware of this group's beliefs about school-related AIDS issues.
(15) He added: "There will be all sorts of science fiction writers who will give their own opinions on what this means, but we don't want to enter that game."
(16) "Obviously [writers in translation] have a disadvantage and there's no sense pretending they don't, of being read in translation," said Gekoski.
(17) Most of what we know about it comes from the accounts given by the Roman writers Polybius (c200-118BC) and Livy (59BC-AD17).
(18) Do you feel you were thought of at one stage as a political writer, at a very early stage?
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(20) This affected the outcome of the study so that the differences of the two groups of patients were not as significant as perceived by the writer.