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

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    the English language (adj.) the foot-pound-second system of units [citation needed] (UK: Imperial) English (n.) spin placed on a ball in cue sports (UK: side) engineer: a technician or a person who mends and operates machinery one employed to design, build or repair equipment practitioner of engineering

  3. Google Dictionary - Wikipedia

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    On Arabic Language Day (December 18) in 2015, Google added an Arabic-language dictionary, available globally, to the service that showed definitions, translations, and example usages of the word in a sentence. [17] In February 2017, online news website Daily Caller accused Google of changing the definition of the word "fascism" in Google ...

  4. Bilingual dictionary - Wikipedia

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    A 1887 visual dictionary from Japan, in English, kanji and katakana Japanese. Multilingual dictionaries are closely related to bilingual dictionaries. In a multilingual dictionary, a person looks up a word or phrase in one language and is presented with the translation in several languages.

  5. Thesaurus - Wikipedia

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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 ...

  6. List of online dictionaries - Wikipedia

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    LexSite non-collaborative English-Russian dictionary with contextual phrases; Linguee collaborative dictionary and contextual sentences; Madura English-Sinhala Dictionary free English to Sinhala and vice versa; Multitran multilingual online dictionary centered on Russian, and provides an opportunity of adding own translation

  7. Category:Dictionaries by language - Wikipedia

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    Two-language dictionaries which translate in only one direction should be listed in a subcategory of Category:Translation dictionaries. For example, a dictionary with Welsh headwords accompanied by definitions in Ukrainian should be categorized as Category:Welsh translation dictionaries.

  8. List of idioms of improbability - Wikipedia

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    The word nikoli, when stressed on the second syllable, means "never", when stressed on the first it is the locative case of Nikola, i.e. Nicholas Spanish – cuando las vacas vuelen ("when cows fly") or cuando los chanchos vuelen ("when pigs fly").

  9. Glossary - Wikipedia

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    A bilingual glossary is a list of terms in one language defined in a second language or glossed by synonyms (or at least near-synonyms) in another language. In a general sense, a glossary contains explanations of concepts relevant to a certain field of study or action. In this sense, the term is related to the notion of ontology.