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Thesaurus Linguae Latinae. A modern english thesaurus. A thesaurus (pl.: thesauri or thesauruses), sometimes called a synonym dictionary or dictionary of synonyms, is a reference work which arranges words by their meanings (or in simpler terms, a book where one can find different words with similar meanings to other words), [1] [2] sometimes as a hierarchy of broader and narrower terms ...
(full point) syn. with full stop (q.v.) Many, many uses; see Point (disambiguation) piece of land jutting into any body of water, esp. a river ("points and bends"); a prominence or peak (of mountains, hills, rocks), also an extremity of woods or timber pontoon blackjack, twenty-one a buoyant device pop
Normative Swedish language spelling dictionary, which includes only commonly used words, currently includes ~126,000 words, [86] after having added 13,500 and removed 9,000 in its latest edition, SAOL 14, plus an additional 200,000 still encountered words in earlier editions. [87] [88] Eastern Armenian: 125,000
The original edition had 15,000 words and each successive edition has been larger, [3] with the most recent edition (the eighth) containing 443,000 words. [6] The book is updated regularly and each edition is heralded as a gauge to contemporary terms; but each edition keeps true to the original classifications established by Roget. [2]
You’ll often hear that retiring on Social Security alone will result in being perpetually cash-strapped. So, if you’re 65 years old and are tired of working, you may want to stay at your job a ...
used car or bicycle in very poor condition (UK: banger) (slang) wifebeater (q.v.) a sleeveless undershirt (from the stereotype that poor men who wear them beat their wives, perhaps from Jackie Gleason in "The Honeymooners" TV series (50s/60s US) or more likely from the costume of the character Stanley Kowalski in the play " A Streetcar Named ...
The database contains 155,327 words organized in 175,979 synsets for a total of 207,016 word-sense pairs; in compressed form, it is about 12 megabytes in size. [ 3 ] It includes the lexical categories nouns , verbs , adjectives and adverbs but ignores prepositions , determiners and other function words.
After the commercial success of Webster's Third New International in the 1960s, [32] Random House responded by adapting its college dictionary by adding more illustrations and large numbers of proper names, increasing its print size and page thickness, and giving it a heavy cover. In 1966, it was published as a new "unabridged" dictionary.