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A reference work with a list of words from one or more languages, normally ordered alphabetically, explaining each word's meaning, and sometimes containing information on its etymology, pronunciation, usage, translations, and other data.

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(preceded by the) A synchronic dictionary of a standardised language held to only contain words that are properly part of the language.

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(by extension) Any work that has a list of material organized alphabetically; e.g., biographical dictionary, encyclopedic dictionary.

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An associative array, a data structure where each value is referenced by a particular key, analogous to words and definitions in a physical dictionary.

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To look up in a dictionary.

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To add to a dictionary.

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To compile a dictionary.

The most important dictionaries of Arabic are late in origin.

He worked intensely on the Talmud and contributed no less than 190 papers to Chambers's Encyclopaedia, in addition to essays in Kitto's and Smith's Biblical Dictionaries, and articles in periodicals.

Appendix D. Using Welsh-English Dictionaries Revision 1.2 (by nodine) clarified the wording in places and improved the formatting.

Another great service to English philology was rendered by his paper, read before the Philological Society, "On some Deficiencies in our English Dictionaries" (1857), which gave the first impulse to the great Oxford New EnglishDictionary.

The following dictionaries can help you with your translations.

To talk dirty, however, you'll need to consult The Alternative Dictionaries.

The use of dictionaries is not permitted unless specifically provided for in the examination rubric.

If your children are school aged and the only dictionary you have in the house is a twenty pound unabridged Webster's, it's time to start looking at kids' dictionaries.

Picture dictionaries are perfect for the earliest learners.

There are plenty of quality children's dictionaries to choose from no matter what developmental age your child is approaching.

Elementary dictionaries are perfect for children between the ages of seven and ten.

These dictionaries include all the elements of a dictionary, but are written to be child-friendly.

Intermediate dictionaries are perfect for the more mature learner who is seeking a user-friendly set-up but more sophisticated definitions.

These dictionaries usually include an extensive guide on how to use a dictionary as well.

Kids' dictionaries are a great resource when a child is required to define vocabulary words, but children should not be sent to the dictionary when reading for meaning or writing if at all possible.

Dictionaries are also available on a CD-ROM, but these are becoming more and more unpopular as most definitions can be easily found by searching via Google, Yahoo, or visiting numerous dictionary websites.

However, kids can build their own dictionaries, play games that will develop their vocabulary skills, and of course use it for homework.

Look up words and definitions in online dictionaries like YourDictionary or read informative articles about history subjects at Encylopedia.com.

Songs, fun repetition, French number picture dictionaries, and games all make it more fun to grasp how to count with French numerals.

There are services you can use to translate complex documents, there are websites that function as automatic translators and there are old fashioned, hardcover dictionaries.

Translation dictionaries are those that contain translations of words from both English to French and French to English in one book.

The aims of these dictionaries is that they be just as useful to French and English speakers alike.

These dictionaries are used by everyone from students to professionals.

For example, dictionaries often give the part of speech of a word, as well as the gender of French nouns.

Some online dictionaries even give pronunciation guidelines and show how the word can be used in context.

While many online dictionaries only offer the most common meaning of a word, this dictionary is more thorough.

Finally, Lexilogos is a very handy site that brings together several different dictionaries onto one page.

You can choose from English to French translation dictionaries, French to English translation dictionaries, and monolingual (French-French or English-English) dictionaries.

The number one mistake that students make when using dictionaries is to rush through the process, taking the very first definition given for a word.

Only the human brain can understand the finer points of language; dictionaries are merely helpful tools.

The two most popular online tools for vocabulary translation are online French dictionaries and English to French translators.

In general, dictionaries have more resources to be used, but translation sites can sometimes translate entire phrases.

In addition, dictionaries give several different definitions/translations, and specify what the different meanings are each for.

For the advanced learner, thorough dictionaries are great tools, but for the beginning and intermediate learner, online tools will suffice in most cases.

Both monolingual and bilingual French dictionaries can be found online, such as the monolingual Lexilogos or the bilingual French Linguistics dictionary that switches from French to English or from English to French.

To determine which dictionaries are the most accurate, check the website's credentials and including how the translation was put together and by whom.

Due to this fact, different Elvish dictionaries, even if based on Lord of the Rings and other Tolkien resources, may not totally agree on translation.

Lord of the Rings fans appreciate Tolkien's eye for detail, quoting dialogue from the novels and creating dictionaries for the languages in the novels and films.

See the liturgical and ecclesiastical dictionaries of Martigny, Migne, and Smith and Cheetham, sub voce, where all the scattered references are collected together and summarized.

Of modern Hungarian dictionaries the best is that of the Academy of Sciences, containing 110,784 articles in 6 vols., by Czuczor and Fogarasi (Pest, 1862-1874).

There are, moreover, HungarianFrench dictionaries by Kiss and Karady (Pest and Leipzig, 18 441848) and Babos and Mole (Pest, 1865), and English-Hungarian dictionaries by Dallos (Pest, 1860) and Bizonfy (Budapest, 1886).

Among the earlier publications of the academy were the Tudomdnytdr (Treasury of Sciences, 1834-1844), with its supplement Literatura; the KUlfoldi jdtPkszin (Foreign Theatres); the Magyar nyelv rendszere (System of the Hungarian language, 1846; 2nd ed., 1847); various dictionaries of scientific, mathematical, philosophical and legal terms; a Hungarian - German dictionary (1835-1838), and a Glossary of Provincialisms (1838).

See articles on mourning customs in the Bible Dictionaries, and, for special studies, Buchler, Zeit.

From this time to his death he devoted himself to the preparation of numerous philological works, consisting of grammars and dictionaries in the Mahratta, Sanskrit, Punjabi, Telinga, Bengali and Bhotanta dialects.

For Christian altars, reference is best made to the articles on the subject in the dictionaries of Christian and liturgical antiquities of Migne, Martigny, Smith and Cheetham, and Pugin, where practically all the available information is collected.

See Biblical Dictionaries of Hastings and Cheyne, s.v.; Jew.

The relevant separate articles in these two great dictionaries, Protestant and Catholic respectively, will supply adequate information and ample references on most points.

Willughby's Ornithologia (1676), however, the word tern is used for more than one species, and, though it does not appear in the older English dictionaries, it may well have been from early times as general a name as it is now.

Without manuals, dictionaries, and easy access to texts, we should go as far astray as any medieval chronicler.

Dictionaries and manuals are the instruments of this industrial revolution.