The form of English most commonly associated with the upper class in the southern counties of England is called Received Pronunciation (RP). It derives from a mixture of the Midland and Southern diale ...
The following sentences contain idioms. The fixed words constituting the idiom in each case are bolded:a. She is pulling my leg. - to pull someone's leg means to trick them by telling them something u ...
A core glossary is a simple glossary or defining dictionary that enables definition of other concepts, especially for newcomers to a language or field of study. It contains a small working vocabulary ...
Using a defining vocabulary is not without its problems, and some scholars have argued that it can lead to definitions which are insufficiently precise or accurate, or that words in the list are somet ...
The Synonyma Simonis Genuensis (the Synonyms of Simon of Genoa), attributed to the physician to Pope Nicholas IV in the year 1288, was printed by Antonius Zarotus at Milan in 1473. Referring to a copy ...
The Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology is an etymological dictionary of the English language, published by Oxford University Press.EditionsC. T. Onions, G. W. S. Friedrichsen, R. W. Burchfield (19 ...
The Oxford Dictionary of World Religions is a reference work edited by John Bowker and published by Oxford University Press. It contains over 8,200 entries by leading authorities in the field of relig ...
The African American National Biography Project is a joint project of the W. E. B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research and Oxford University Press. Editors are Henry Louis Gate ...
In 1999, the American Library Association awarded the American National Biography its prestigious Dartmouth Medal as a reference work of outstanding quality and significance. The American Historical A ...
Inter-Active Terminology for Europe (IATE) is the inter-institutional terminology database of the European Union. The project was launched in 1999 with the objective of creating a web-based interface ...
A sub-field dictionary is a specialized dictionary that has been designed and compiled to cover the terms of one (or possibly more) sub-fields of a particular subject field. It is therefore a sub-divi ...
A single-field dictionary is a specialized dictionary that has been designed and compiled to cover the terms of one particular subject field. Single-field dictionaries should be contrasted with multi- ...
A multi-field dictionary is a specialized dictionary that has been designed and compiled to cover the terms within two or more subject fields. Multi-field dictionaries should be contrasted with single ...
The following are lexicographers, people who specialise in the theory and practice of dictionary making (see Lexicography).Contents :Top 0–9 A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y ZA Maulv ...
A specialized dictionary is a dictionary that covers a relatively restricted set of phenomena. The definitive book on the subject (Cowie 2009) includes chapters on (among others) dictionaries of:synon ...
