Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The process or work of writing, editing, or compiling a dictionary.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The art or science of compiling lexicons or wordbooks; the scientific exposition of the forms, pronunciation, signification, and history of words.
- noun The act or process of making a dictionary.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The art, process, or occupation of making a lexicon or dictionary; the principles which are applied in making dictionaries.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The art or craft of compiling, writing and editing
dictionaries . - noun linguistics The
scholarly discipline of analyzing and describing thesemantic ,syntagmatic andparadigmatic relationships within thelexicon (vocabulary) of a language and developing theories of dictionary components and structures linking the data in dictionaries.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the act of writing dictionaries
Etymologies
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The greatest lexicographer of the 19th and early 20th century, James A.H. Murray, began his Romanes Lecture in 1900 on The Evolution of English Lexicography — one of the key texts in English lexicography — with a little story:
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One casualty in the new year, Toon predicts, will be "transformation" as a supply chain strategy, as it will be replaced in the buzzword lexicography by "optimization."
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For the first time in Latin lexicography, suffixes are treated as headwords, a welcome innovation and one that balances with the traditional treatment of prefixes as such.
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It just means to say, in lexicography’s telegraphic fashion, that they’re related etymologically.
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It just means to say, in lexicography’s telegraphic fashion, that they’re related etymologically.
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These books belie the perception that slang lexicography is concerned with swear words.
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These books belie the perception that slang lexicography is concerned with swear words.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
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There remains yet to be considered the distribution of words into their proper classes, or that part of lexicography which is strictly critical.
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Throughout its second half, he tries to draw a contrast between Webster's democratic, "common man" approach to lexicography and his supposedly imperious behavior.
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Its scholarship, accuracy and reliability make it one of the most significant contributions to Arabic lexicography.
Arabic-English Dictionary: The Hans Wehr Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic « Books « Literacy News
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