• notion that words should be defined using 'terms less abstruse than that which is to be explained', and a defining vocabulary provides the lexicographer...
    5 KB (676 words) - 04:58, 12 May 2024
  • A vocabulary (also known as a lexicon) is a set of words, typically the set in a language or the set known to an individual. The word vocabulary originated...
    30 KB (3,535 words) - 04:22, 1 October 2024
  • Longman Defining Vocabulary, a 2000-word controlled defining vocabulary used to write all of the definitions in the dictionary. This defining vocabulary was...
    12 KB (1,446 words) - 20:58, 27 October 2024
  • of a natural language Defining vocabulary – List of words used by lexicographers to write dictionary definitions IMS Vocabulary Definition Exchange –...
    20 KB (2,536 words) - 18:47, 19 October 2024
  • elements for the description of ontologies. It uses various forms of RDF vocabularies, intended to structure RDF resources. RDF and RDFS can be saved in a...
    17 KB (1,757 words) - 02:10, 28 October 2024
  • difficult language, those in an MLD use a simple and accessible defining vocabulary. The first English MLD, published in 1935, was the New Method English...
    6 KB (714 words) - 00:55, 17 January 2024
  • dictionary: it provides definitions in simple language, using a controlled defining vocabulary; most words have example sentences to illustrate how they are typically...
    5 KB (569 words) - 18:32, 15 February 2024
  • controlled defining vocabulary. In the Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English, each definition is written using the 2000-word Longman Defining Vocabulary based...
    8 KB (1,145 words) - 02:40, 18 June 2024
  • then-recent authors, and a complete review of spelling forms and defining vocabulary. 16,000 words lost their hyphen. Angus Stevenson, the editor of the...
    11 KB (1,342 words) - 14:03, 2 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Advanced learner's dictionary
    children's dictionary. Its definitions are usually built on a restricted defining vocabulary. "Advanced" usually refers learners with a proficiency level of B2...
    4 KB (378 words) - 09:35, 12 February 2024
  • 11 February 2015, kiasu was chosen as OED's Word of the Day. Singlish vocabulary formally takes after British English (in terms of spelling and abbreviations)...
    103 KB (12,828 words) - 07:27, 20 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Circular definition
    reduced by writing definitions using only the words in a constrained defining vocabulary. From a lexicographic point of view, the simplest form of circular...
    12 KB (1,545 words) - 10:15, 27 September 2024
  • restrictions on its vocabulary, e.g. Basic English, copula-free text, defining vocabulary for dictionaries, and other limited vocabularies for teaching English...
    15 KB (1,877 words) - 20:36, 21 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Vocabulary development
    Vocabulary development is a process by which people acquire words. Babbling shifts towards meaningful speech as infants grow and produce their first words...
    54 KB (7,074 words) - 01:09, 29 March 2024
  • elements from a set of existing metadata formats" In addition to defining vocabulary terms to annotate multimedia objects, the document also provides...
    1 KB (171 words) - 04:50, 26 October 2021
  • Thumbnail for English language
    longer consider government of case to be the defining feature of the class of prepositions, rather defining prepositions as words that can function as the...
    228 KB (23,164 words) - 00:11, 21 November 2024
  • Ontology (information science) (category Commons category link is locally defined)
    include representations of all of the words in the Longman dictionary defining vocabulary. Computer Science Ontology, an automatically generated ontology of...
    60 KB (6,205 words) - 21:04, 21 November 2024
  • main vocabulary which defines the subject of the contract, and a supplementary vocabulary to add further qualitative information. The main vocabulary is...
    5 KB (664 words) - 21:46, 19 April 2023
  • first-order logic, a Herbrand structure S is a structure over a vocabulary σ that is defined solely by the syntactical properties of σ. The idea is to take...
    5 KB (495 words) - 11:12, 10 October 2023
  • Some prefer to restrict the domain of the term register to a specific vocabulary which one might commonly call slang, jargon, argot, or cant, while others...
    12 KB (1,408 words) - 12:25, 20 August 2024
  • dictionary (LSP dictionary) is a reference work which defines the specialised vocabulary used by experts within a particular field, for example, architecture...
    4 KB (475 words) - 00:50, 2 May 2022
  • testing. First developed in 2007 and released in 2013, the standard "defines vocabulary, processes, documentation, techniques, and a process assessment model...
    16 KB (1,538 words) - 18:40, 29 August 2024
  • architecture (MDA). The SBVR standard defines the vocabulary and rules for documenting the semantics of business vocabularies, business facts, and business rules;...
    19 KB (2,611 words) - 10:38, 29 April 2022
  • Thumbnail for American English regional vocabulary
    American English regional vocabulary Grinder, hero, hoagie, or sub? Gym shoe, sneaker, or tennis shoe? Regional vocabulary within American English varies...
    23 KB (2,112 words) - 09:54, 29 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Twitchers' vocabulary
    Twitchers' vocabulary is the set of jargon words used by twitchers (committed birdwatchers who travel long distances to see a new species to add a species...
    10 KB (1,456 words) - 19:37, 17 October 2024
  • A slang is a vocabulary (words, phrases, and linguistic usages) of an informal register, common in everyday conversation but avoided in formal writing...
    27 KB (3,196 words) - 15:57, 8 November 2024
  • represent informal neologisms that remain technically outside the defined vocabulary of the language, but have become established by usage. Esperanto distinguishes...
    15 KB (1,762 words) - 09:54, 6 September 2024
  • Newspeak (section Vocabulary)
    Newspeak, which is a controlled language of simplified grammar and limited vocabulary designed to limit a person's ability for critical thinking. The Newspeak...
    28 KB (3,515 words) - 02:40, 18 November 2024
  • Contemporary English (LDOCE) controlled defining vocabulary (2148 words). These words are sufficient to define (linguistically) all of the entries in the...
    48 KB (5,731 words) - 17:31, 5 October 2024
  • Barney, Stephen A. (1985). Word-Hoard: An Introduction to Old English Vocabulary. Yale University Press. ISBN 0-300-03506-3. Pollington, Stephen (2010)...
    23 KB (2,818 words) - 08:58, 14 September 2024