(n.) A treasury or storehouse; hence, a repository, especially of knowledge; -- often applied to a comprehensive work, like a dictionary or cyclopedia.
Example Sentences:
(1) On the basis of a dermatopathology thesaurus with more than 200 different diagnoses, the system allows quick access to diagnostic and patient data and supplies rapid seaching and sorting facilities.
(2) The flexible design of the thesaurus facilitates frequent revision and addition of new terminology.
(3) The thesaurus is built on keywords or key-expressions.
(4) We have previously described a user-interactive rule-based computer program (Dyna-SaurI) designed for dynamic thesaurus integration, and demonstrated its efficacy on integrating dermatological subsets of the MeSH and SNOMED thesauruses.
(5) The most striking example is Icelandic, whose thesaurus hasn't changed much since the 12th century.
(6) A thesaurus has been developed to serve as the integrating unit for the computerized information storage and retrieval system of the Vision Information Center.
(7) It was conformed to and conjugated with the thesaurus in the field.
(8) If I ever got round to writing one, both would have prominent entries in my personal flavour thesaurus.
(9) He's a fearsome creation, a thesaurus of withering insults, with a temperament that can only be measured in degrees of boiling rage.
(10) I finally pull the tire off, and I look at the inside of the tire, and it reads: ‘Matsumoto Tire Company – We Are Obstinacy!’” I mention the tire, because it illuminates the experience of reading Paul Ryan’s brand-new don’t-call-it-a-campaign book, The Way Forward: an hours-long ordeal with an epistemically locked-shut Mad Libs thesaurus accident that ultimately says “screw you” as sunnily as possible.
(11) Maybe it’s constant the job ad “buzzwords” that make you want to tear out all the pages of a thesaurus and papier-mâché them in front of the recruiter.
(12) External formatting by semantic fields allows the physicians to attribute medical expressions dynamically to concepts of the thesaurus.
(13) A thesaurus can be used to define the units in relationship to the examination methods described.
(14) These are literature selection, thesaurus maintenance and indexing.
(15) A hierarchical structure was placed on the terms to produce a thesaurus typical of the sort often used in the indexing and retrieving of documents.
(16) The numerical coding system used in the thesaurus permits seven levels of specificity; this specificity is required for depth of indexing, as well as to limit the retrieval to those bibliographic citations which are relevant to a highly specific search request.
(17) Finally, all of the symptom terms were incorporated into a thesaurus from which the questionnaire was derived.
(18) The original system has been improved to provide a thesaurus processor with added capabilities for expanding search request terms and a newly developed set of search programs with user options that make complex and more accurate retrievals possible.
(19) This paper describes the process of preparing the thesaurus and presents an evaluation of its coverage of the "MEDINFO-86 Proceedings."
(20) Modification of the thesaurus is expected to have a far-reaching impact on the retrieval of information in nursing and allied health.
Tidings
Definition:
(n.) Account of what has taken place, and was not before known; news.
Example Sentences:
(1) "So we do what we can to keep the red tide from drowning us.
(2) For the moment, the priority is managing this endless human tide.
(3) Government ministers and officials are distressed that the home secretary's resignation has failed to stem the tide of fresh allegation and counter allegation between the protaganists and a number of potentially damaging questions still hang over the visa affair.
(4) First, the argument that balanced budgets and economic growth inevitably lead to a fairer society because “all boats rise on a rising tide”.
(5) The home side dominated the opening quarter of an hour as Argentina struggled to find their feet but the tide turned when Di Maria curled a right-footed shot past Claudio Bravo for the equaliser 10 minutes later.
(6) Updated at 12.27pm GMT 11.46am GMT There's debate at Chesil Beach over when exactly high tide is, writes Steven Morris.
(7) It soon became a standard text for aspiring Young Conservatives and Bow Groupers in the days before the Thatcherite tide had engulfed even those institutions.
(8) In the debate, Sturgeon clearly signalled she was open to working with Ed Miliband, at one point saying: “I agree with Ed.” She challenged the Labour leader to join her in seeking an end austerity and said the SNP was his “ally” in trying to roll back a tide of privatisation in the NHS.
(9) Governments must defeat a rising tide of protectionism to prevent a further slowdown in global growth, the head of the International Monetary Fund has said.
(10) Tony Abbott has tried to stem the tide of discontent within his own party ranks, defending his decision to award a knighthood to Prince Philip and saying the government is “strong and effective” under his leadership.
(11) Apparently the sea wall is a favourite base for extravagant jumps into the water, but not at low tide.
(12) While those "close relation[s]" are not supposed to be passed on for watchlisting absent other "derogatory information", their data may be retained within TIDE for unspecified "analytic purposes".
(13) Tamerlan Tsarnaev was entered into a central database of potential terrorists, the Terrorist Identities Datamart Environment (Tide), that is maintained by the National Counterterrorism Center.
(14) Donald Trump is fairly progressive about gay people but when you look at Mike Pence and the Republican party, the religious undertone threatens to roll back the tide of progress.
(15) The lack of obvious motive baffled commentators who said the British director of Top Gun, Crimson Tide and Beverly Hills Cop II appeared to have it all: success, wealth, respect, a wife and two young children.
(16) We have not turned the tide on the ease with which money can be shifted out of developing countries.” There are lots of ways to get money out of a country undetected but the easiest is through trade misinvoicing, which is the overpricing of imports and the underpricing of exports – and accounts for 77% of all illicit financial flows.
(17) We are up against a very strong king tide so some of the floodwater will take time to recede.” New Zealand prime minister Bill English addressed the situation on social media on Saturday.
(18) Outbreaks of airborne respiratory irritation in populations exposed to red tides may be the most common public health problem associated with red tides.
(19) While it is still ridiculous to suggest that Boko Haram will be defeated in six weeks, and still far too early to conclude that the tide has turned against the Islamist group, it is reasonable to think that the international intervention may free up some Nigerian military resources in time for the rescheduled election; and, more importantly, keep Boko Haram occupied while voting takes place.
(20) But hard lobbying from the South African government and its regional partners turned the tide for Dlamini-Zuma.