Dictionaries are justified in glossing if they follow a convention of giving preferred pronunciation first, or as if they give common pronunciation first ( and if they have some way to determine this ).

Dictionaries and scholars have offered a variety of definitions.

Dictionaries may also have cognitive functions such as help users to develop knowledge in general or about a specific topic, such as the birthday of a famous person and the inflectional paradigm of a specific verb.

The Oxford Dictionaries have an article on the usage, saying that it dates back to the 16th century.

Dictionaries have been reluctant to adopt the term Brazilianist both in the United States and in Brazil.

Dictionaries are one of the most useful tools any writer can have.

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Dictionaries generally define gynarchy as ' government by women over women and men '.

Oxford University Press published NOAD2 in electronic form in 2006 at the OxfordAmericanDictionary. com, and in 2010, along with the Oxford Dictionary of English, as part of Oxford Dictionaries Online.

They were of various religions / spiritual traditions including Buddhism ( along with Vajrayana & Bon ) Taoism, Confucianism, Judaism, Nestorianism and Manichaeism as well as wide array of texts on Philosophy, History, Geography, Medicine, Astronomy, Mathematics, Divination, Dictionaries, Music scores, Dance notations, Social documents and Literature ( Popular narratives, Folk songs, Classical poetry ).

Since 2005 Apple Inc .' s Mac OS X operating system has come bundled with a dictionary application and widget which credits as its source " Oxford American Dictionaries ", and contains the full text of NOAD2.

* Library with several attack Dictionaries

Dictionaries often display colloquial words and phrases with the abbreviation colloq.

* Griffiths Institute OXFORD UNIVERSITY ( lists for further research: A key to the translation exercises in Sir Alan Gardiner's Egyptian Grammar, Electronic publications, Egyptological databases, Dictionaries and lexicography, Useful Web sites & Main libraries with Egyptological holdings )

Dictionaries such as Whitaker's Words therefore treat it as a second-declension noun with the following fairly ordinary forms:

Dictionaries usually translate it as curd cheese or cottage cheese, although most commercial varieties of cottage cheese are made with rennet, whereas traditional quark is not.

The names available from the latter type of collections are specifically intended for use in extending MathML, and conversely, a basic set of such " Content Dictionaries " has been designed to be compatible with the small set of mathematical concepts defined in Content MathML, the non-presentational subset of MathML.

Dictionaries are not always consistent in this, particularly when the secondary stress would come after the primary – for instance the foil of counterfoil is transcribed with secondary stress in Merriam-Webster dictionaries but not in the OED, although both of them assign secondary stress to the counter of counterintelligence.

Dictionaries do not generally mark tertiary stress, but as mentioned above, some of them treat all syllables with unreduced vowels as having at least secondary stress.

* American Heritage Dictionaries, Central America.

The online Oxford Dictionaries entry for mouse states the plural for the small rodent is mice, while the plural for the small computer connected device is either mice or mouses.

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* Michael de Vaan, < u > Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages </ u >, Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionaries Series, Brill Academic Publishers, 2008, 826pp.

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) ( 1995 ) Manual of Specialised Lexicography: The Preparation of Specialised Dictionaries, J. Benjamins.

* Green, Jonathon ( 1996 ) Chasing the Sun: Dictionary-Makers and the Dictionaries They Made, J. Cape.

* Landau, Sidney ( 2001 ) Dictionaries: The Art and Craft of Lexicography, Cambridge U. P.

Dictionaries are books or computer programs ( or databases ) that actually represent lexicographical work, they are opened and purposed for the use of public.

Historical Dictionaries of Literature and the Arts.

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Dictionaries are sometimes used erroneously as sources for examples of circular definition.

Dictionaries are not self-contained texts, nor is their use expected to be so contained.

* Clark, Andrew F. and Lucie Colvin Phillips, Historical Dictionary of Senegal, Second Edition Published as No. 65 of African Historical Dictionaries, ( Metuchen, New Jersey: The Scarecrow Press, 1994 ) p. 246-247

He asked, `` Could we have a drink ''??

`` I mean, we don't have any way to get there and we can't expect you to quit work just to take us to town ''.

Before we get through he'll have the Blackfeet hankerin' for our hair and our goods.

As I dug in behind one of the bales we were using as protection, I grudgingly found myself agreeing with Oso's logic, especially when I imagined what would have happened to Missy if Old Knife's large party of screeching warriors had overrun our company.

Don't like to bother no one unless we have to, which I figger we do, in your case.

If we have to we'll take him apart and see what he's made of ''!!

I think I have a way so we can carry on without his suspecting us ''.

Shall we allow her not to have a bath??

Now we peered anxiously for any speck of land in the Pacific, for this interminable bailing would have to stop soon.

`` There's only one thing to move him fast, and we have it right here in this very store ''.

After a while, Kitty murmured something to Cappy, and he held her close, answering, `` We'll just have to wait till we pull into Philly, honey ''.

But in our case -- and neither my wife nor I have extreme views on integration, nor are we given to emotional outbursts -- the situation has ruined one or two valued friendships and come close to wrecking several more.

As Wisman put it, `` They have separate pieces of the pie, and we have the whole pie.

In fact, although we have dispelled the fear, we have not necessarily assured ourselves that there are no dangers.

We have staved off a war and, since our behavior has involved all these elements, we can only keep adding to our ritual without daring to abandon any part of it, since we have not the slightest notion which parts are effective.