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And if we don't understand the problem, and deal with it, not simply as a plug and play solution - pull out capitalism and plug in socialism - we'll just pretend for a while until it dawns that fundamentally, the lexicon was all that go changed.

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  1. noun A dictionary.
  2. noun A stock of terms used in a particular profession, subject, or style; a vocabulary: the lexicon of surrealist art.
  3. noun Linguistics The morphemes of a language considered as a group.

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  • In the Roosevelt and McCain lexicon, the phrase equates to a moment of reckoning, when worthy men prove themselves. —  msnbc.com: Top msnbc.com headlines
  • And if we don't understand the problem, and deal with it, not simply as a plug and play solution - pull out capitalism and plug in socialism - we'll just pretend for a while until it dawns that fundamentally, the lexicon was all that go changed. —  Dissident Voice
  • What made this case so difficult is that while a lexicon is a compilation of facts, and you can't copyright facts, Rowling's books are invented facts, hence original and inventive. —  unalog
  • Parker Bros Inc. (PWH); 25Feb65; R356485 Rules for Crossword lexicon, Regular lexicon, Lexicon solitaires. —  U.S. Copyright Renewals, 1965 January - June
  • In Mayer's valuable "Conversations-lexicon" the Italian word is derived from the Talmudic "Ghet"==divorce, separation (as parting the Hebrews from the rest of the population) and the Rev. S. R. Melli, Chief Rabbi of Trieste, has kindly informed me that the word is Chaldaic FN#310] [Ar. —  Arabian nights. English
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  1. Medieval Latin, from Greek lexikon (biblion), word(book), from neuter of lexikos, of words, from lexis, word, from legein, to speak; see leg- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. = French lexique = Spanish lexico = Portuguese lexicon = Italian lessico, from Middle Latin New Latin lexicon, from Greek (Middle Greek) λεξικόν (sc. βιβλίον, book), a lexicon, neuter of λεξικός, of words, from λέξις, a saying, speech, word, from λέγειν, speak: see legend.
 

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