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The cause for the start of the project was the arrival of OpenOffice.org in 2002, which was missing the thesaurus of its parent, StarOffice, due to its licensing.. OpenThesaurus filled that gap by importing possible synonyms from a freely available German/English dictionary and refining and updating these in crowdsourced work through the use of a web ap
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 ...
Some lists of common words distinguish between word forms, while others rank all forms of a word as a single lexeme (the form of the word as it would appear in a dictionary). For example, the lexeme be (as in to be ) comprises all its conjugations ( is , was , am , are , were , etc.), and contractions of those conjugations. [ 5 ]
List of English homographs; List of English words with disputed usage; List of English–Spanish interlingual homographs; List of ethnic slurs; List of generic and genericized trademarks; List of Germanic and Latinate equivalents in English; List of self-contradicting words in English; Lists of Merriam-Webster's Words of the Year; Most common ...
This is a comparison of English dictionaries, which are dictionaries about the language of English.The dictionaries listed here are categorized into "full-size" dictionaries (which extensively cover the language, and are targeted to native speakers), "collegiate" (which are smaller, and often contain other biographical or geographical information useful to college students), and "learner's ...
He was convinced that the world needed to gradually eradicate minority languages and use as much as possible only one: English, in either a simple or complete form. [3] Although Basic English was not built into a program, similar simplifications have been devised for various international uses. Richards promoted its use in schools in China. [4]
The two-week window for NFL teams to apply the franchise tag to pending unrestricted free agents (UFAs) opened Tuesday. Among stars with expiring contracts, the tag is often an unpopular mechanism ...
Aspic with chicken and eggs. Aspic (/ ˈ æ s p ɪ k /) [1] or meat jelly is a savoury gelatin made with a meat stock or broth, set in a mold to encase other ingredients.These often include pieces of meat, seafood, vegetable, or eggs.