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Like the periodic table, the list below organizes the elements by the number of protons in their atoms; it can also be organized by other properties, such as atomic weight, density, and electronegativity. For more detailed information about the origins of element names, see List of chemical element name etymologies.
Dictionary is an Indian Bengali-language drama film directed by Bratya Basu and produced by Firdausul Hasan and Prabal Halder. The music is composed by Prabuddha Banerjee. The storyline of the film is based on the story, Baba Hoya and Swami Hoya, by Buddhadeb Guha The film was theatrically released on 12 February 2
Johnson's dictionary was prepared at 17 Gough Square, London, an eclectic household, between the years of 1746 and 1755.By 1747 Johnson had written his Plan of a Dictionary of the English Language, which spelled out his intentions and proposed methodology for preparing his document.
Articles related to specific bidirectional and bilingual dictionaries for various languages and which include English as one of the language pairs should be listed in Category:English bilingual dictionaries and in a parallel category for the other language used in the book the article is describing, e.g., Category:Swahili bilingual dictionaries ...
In 1806, Webster published his first dictionary, A Compendious Dictionary of the English Language. In 1807 Webster started two decades of intensive work to expand his publication into a fully comprehensive dictionary, An American Dictionary of the English Language. To help him trace the etymology of words, Webster learned 26 languages.
The Dictionary of Received Ideas (or Dictionary of Accepted Ideas; in French, Le Dictionnaire des idées reçues) is a short satirical work collected and published in 1911–13 from notes compiled by Gustave Flaubert during the 1870s, lampooning the clichés endemic to French society under the Second French Empire.
10th Edition (1999, revised 2001) became The Concise Oxford English Dictionary.It was edited by Judy Pearsall. Rather than being a direct revision of the 9th edition, it was based on the larger New Oxford Dictionary of English (1998), which Pearsall had edited.
A page from Robert James's A Medicinal Dictionary; London, 1743-45 An illustration from Appleton's Medical Dictionary; edited by S. E. Jelliffe (1916). The earliest known glossaries of medical terms were discovered on Egyptian papyrus authored around 1600 B.C. [1] Other precursors to modern medical dictionaries include lists of terms compiled from the Hippocratic Corpus in the first century AD.