This traditional geographical definition is used, for example, in the latest edition of Merriam-Webster's Geographical Dictionary, as well as the archeological community.

The Britannica contains 100, 000 articles and Merriam-Webster's Dictionary and Thesaurus ( US only ), and offers Primary and Secondary School editions.

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Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary added the word in 2008.

The Oxford English Dictionary defines racism as the “ belief that all members of each race possess characteristics, abilities, or qualities specific to that race, especially so as to distinguish it as inferior or superior to another race or races ” and the expression of such prejudice, while the Merriam-Webster's Dictionary defines it as a belief that race is the primary determinant of human traits and capacities and that racial differences produce an inherent superiority or inferiority of a particular racial group, and alternatively that it is also the prejudice based on such a belief.

The term is listed in the Oxford English Dictionary and Merriam-Webster's Dictionary.

According to Merriam-Webster's Dictionary, the term was first used in 1989, though the use is not attributed to anyone. The term ' trip hop ' was first used in print by Andy Pemberton, a music journalist writing for Mixmag, in June 1994 to describe Mo Wax Records Artist ( U. K ) R. P. M and ( American ) DJ Shadow's " In / Flux " single.

It is mentioned in Giovanni Capnist's 1983 cookbook I Dolci Del Veneto, while Merriam-Webster's Online Dictionary gives 1982 as the first mention of the dessert.

The Chicago Manual of Style, followed by many book publishers and magazines in the United States, recommends Webster's Third, along with Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary for " general matters of spelling ", and the style book " normally opts for " the first spelling listed ( with the Collegiate taking precedence over Webster's Third because it " represents the latest research ").

The latest edition of Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary can be searched online at the company's website.

Most scholarly publishers have a preferred style guide, usually a combination of Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary and: ( a ) either the Chicago Manual of Style, the MLA Style Manual, or the APA Publication Manual in the US ; or ( b ) the New Hart's Rules in the UK.

Merriam-Webster's Geographical Dictionary defines the Umbrian Apennines to extend from the " sources of the Tiber " to Scheggia Pass, bounded on the east by the border between Umbria and Marches, which runs along the divide.

Merriam-Webster's Dictionary of English Usage ( page 720 ) refers to three statistical studies of passive versus active sentences in various periodicals: " the highest incidence of passive constructions was 13 percent.

Merriam-Webster's Online Dictionary defines micromanagement as " manage especially with excessive control or attention on details ".

Merriam-Webster has also published dictionaries of synonyms, English usage, geography ( Merriam-Webster's Geographical Dictionary ), biography, proper names, medical terms, sports terms, slang, Spanish – English, and numerous others.

River Leame is given as an alternative spelling in Merriam-Webster's Geographical Dictionary.

* Merriam-Webster's Geographical Dictionary, Third Edition.

On August 14, 2012, the word " energy drink " will be listed for the first time in the mainstream Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary.

However, to label enjo-kōsai by the most basic definition of prostitution whereby a person attains money through the exchange of sexual acts < ref >" prostitution " Merriam-Webster's Dictionary of Law.

Merriam-Webster's Dictionary of English Usage stated that modern use of the term is largely limited to advertisements, headlines and banners, where its conciseness is valued.

According to Merriam-Webster's Dictionary of English Usage, most of the evidence for these words comes from " educated Englishmen who knew their Greek ".

This term is now in use on many pages on the internet and has passed into the general lexicon, even to the extent of being included in Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary.

According to the Merriam-Webster's dictionary, ' bagel ' derives from the transliteration of the Yiddish ' beygl ', which came from the Middle High German ' böugel ' or ring, which itself came from ' bouc ' ( ring ) in Old High German, similar to the Old English ' bēag ' ( ring ), and ' būgan ' ( to bend or bow ).

According to Merriam-Webster's, " vernacular " was brought into the English language as early as 1601 from Latin vernaculus, " native ", which had been in figurative use in Classical Latin as " national " and " domestic ", having originally been derived from vernus and verna, a male or female slave respectively born in the house rather than abroad.

The Oxford English Dictionary and Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary are not so restrictive.

The Oxford English Dictionary ( OED ) has around 300, 000 headwords, while Merriam-Webster's Third New International Dictionary has about 470, 000.

A number of words chosen by the ADS are also on the list of Merriam-Webster's Words of the Year.

Polity is a political system that combines ideals from an oligarchy, " government by the few " ( Merriam-Webster's Online Dictionary ), with ideals from a democracy, " government by the people, especially: rule of the majority " ( Merriam-Webster's Online Dictionary ).

A wide majority of geographers, via nearly all atlases and many other publications from the National Geographic to the CIA World Factbook and Merriam-Webster's Geographical Dictionary define Europe, Asia and Africa as continents.

From the Official Tournament and Club Word List, or TWL, published in 2006 derived from the Merriam-Webster's Dictionary and four other collegiate dictionaries.

This may have originally been a slang adaptation, since leverage was a noun, however, modern dictionaries ( such as Random House Dictionary and Merriam-Webster's Dictionary of Law ) refer to its use as a verb as well .< ref >

Merriam-Webster's dictionary traces the usage of the term back as far as 1903.

All of these offer college editions, but Merriam-Webster's Collegiate is the largest and most popular.

The Oxford English Dictionary traces the earliest use ( as " Androides ") to Ephraim Chambers ' Cyclopaedia, in reference to an automaton that St. Albertus Magnus allegedly created.

* 1755 – Samuel Johnson's A Dictionary of the English Language is published in London.

Stokoe used it for his 1965 A Dictionary of American Sign Language on Linguistic Principles, the first dictionary with entries in ASL — that is, the first dictionary which one could use to look up a sign without first knowing its conventional gloss in English.

The Oxford English Dictionary defines the older broad meanings of the term " artist ":

The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary.

" Est vir qui adest ", explained below, was cited as the example in Samuel Johnson's A Dictionary of the English Language.

According to The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, Asgard is derived from Old Norse āss, god + garðr, enclosure ; from Indo-European roots ansu-spirit, demon ( see cognate ahura ) + gher-grasp, enclose ( see cognates garden and yard ).< ref >; See also ansu-and gher -< sup > 1 </ sup > in " Appendix I: Indo-European Roots " in the same work .</ ref >

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* Ansible from the Oxford English Dictionary

* 1928 – The 125th and final fascicle of the Oxford English Dictionary is published.

* The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 3rd edition, Houghton Mifflin ( 1992 ), hardcover, 2140 pages, ISBN 0-395-44895-6

The Oxford English Dictionary traces the origin of the word bridge to an Old English word brycg, of the same meaning, derived from the hypothetical Proto-Germanic root brugjō.

According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the word baroque is derived from the Portuguese word " barroco ", Spanish " barroco ", or French " baroque ", all of which refer to a " rough or imperfect pearl ", though whether it entered those languages via Latin, Arabic, or some other source is uncertain.

The Oxford English Dictionary applies the term to English " as spoken or written in the British Isles ; esp the forms of English usual in Great Britain ", reserving " Hiberno-English " for the " English language as spoken and written in Ireland ".

Others, such as the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary, define it as the " English language as it spoken and written in England.

Though some deplore the name, arguing that it makes the industry look like a poor cousin to Hollywood, it has its own entry in the Oxford English Dictionary.

Young currently supports Creative Commons, the Public Knowledge Project, the Dictionary of Old English, the Internet Archive, ibiblio, the NCSU eGames, and the Bald Head Island Conservancy, among others.

The Oxford English Dictionary, finding examples going back to 1961, defines the adjective born-again as:

* American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, Houghton Mifflin Company ( 2006 ).