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  2. Non-numerical words for quantities - Wikipedia

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    The English language has a number of words that denote specific or approximate quantities that are themselves not numbers. [1] Along with numerals, and special-purpose words like some, any, much, more, every, and all, they are quantifiers. Quantifiers are a kind of determiner and occur in many constructions with other determiners, like articles ...

  3. List of numbers - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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    A list of articles about numbers (not about numerals). Topics include powers of ten, notable integers, prime and cardinal numbers, and the myriad system.

  4. List of dictionaries by number of words - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of dictionaries considered authoritative or complete by approximate number of total words, or headwords, included. number of words in a language. [1] [2] In compiling a dictionary, a lexicographer decides whether the evidence of use is sufficient to justify an entry in the dictionary. This decision is not the same as determining ...

  5. List of mnemonics - Wikipedia

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    One way of remembering this is that the word 'noun' comes before the word 'verb' in the dictionary; likewise 'c' comes before 's', so the nouns are 'practice, licence, advice' and the verbs are 'practise, license, advise'. [27] Here or Hear; We hear with our ear. Complement and Compliment; complement adds something to make it enough

  6. Scribal abbreviation - Wikipedia

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    The typographic abbreviations should not be confused with the phrasal abbreviations: i.e. (id est 'that is'); loc. cit. (loco citato 'in the passage already cited'); viz. (vide licet 'namely; that is to say; in other words' – formed with vi + the yogh-like glyph ꝫ, the siglum for the suffix -et and the conjunction et); and etc. (et cetera ...

  7. Lists of dictionaries - Wikipedia

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    Deutsches Rechtswörterbuch (Dictionary of Historical German Legal Terms) Lists of dictionaries cover general and specialized dictionaries, collections of words in one or more specific languages, and collections of terms in specialist fields. They are organized by language, specialty and other properties.

  8. List of words having different meanings in American and ...

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    For the second portion of the list, see List of words having different meanings in American and British English: M–Z. Asterisked (*) meanings, though found chiefly in the specified region, also have some currency in the other region; other definitions may be recognised by the other as Briticisms or Americanisms respectively. Additional usage ...

  9. Likewise, Inc. - Wikipedia

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    Likewise, Inc., is an American technology startup company which provides a social networking service for finding and saving content recommendations for movies, TV shows, books, and podcasts. [1] A team of ex- Microsoft employees founded Likewise in October 2017 with financial investment from Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates .