Dictionary vs Encyclopedic - What's the difference?
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A reference work with a list of words from one or more languages, normally ordered alphabetically and explaining each word's meaning and sometimes containing information on its etymology, usage, translations and other data.
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By extension, any work that has a list of material organized alphabetically; e.g. biographical dictionary, encyclopedic dictionary.
(label) An associative array, a data structure where each value is referenced by a particular key, analogous to words and definitions in a physical dictionary.
* 2011 , Jon Galloway, ?Phil Haack, ?Brad Wilson, Professional ASP.NET MVC 3
(label) To look up in a dictionary.
(label) To add to a dictionary.
* 1866 , William Henry Ward, The international day, night, and fog signal telegraph (page 12)
* 2001 , The Michigan Alumnus (page 25)
To compile a dictionary.
* 1864 , Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (volume 96, page 334)
(label) To appear in a dictionary.
Of or relating to the characteristics of an encyclopedia; concerning all subjects, having comprehensive information or knowledge.
(lexicography) Relating to or containing encyclopedic information rather than only linguistic or lexical information; about facts and concepts, and not only a word or term; including proper names, biographical and geographical information and illustrations.
* 2001 , Sidney I. Landau, Dictionaries: The Art and Craft of Lexicography , 2nd ed, Scribner:
As a noun dictionary
is a reference work with a list of words from one or more languages, normally ordered alphabetically and explaining each word's meaning and sometimes containing information on its etymology, usage, translations and other data.As a verb dictionary
is (label) to look up in a dictionary.As an adjective encyclopedic is
of or relating to the characteristics of an encyclopedia; concerning all subjects, having comprehensive information or knowledge.dictionary
English
Noun
(dictionaries)- But what other kind(s) of syntactic information should be included in Lexical Entries? Traditional dictionaries' such as Hornby's (1974) ''Oxford Advanced Learner's '''Dictionary of Current English'' include not only ''categorial'' information in their entries, but also information about the range of ''Complements which a given item permits (this information is represented by the use of a number/letter code).
- User calls
RouteCollection.GetVirtualPath, passing in aRequestContext, a dictionary of values, and an optional route name used to select the correct route to generate the URL.
Synonyms
* wordbookDerived terms
* encyclopedic dictionary * explanatory dictionary * fictionary * pedagogical dictionary * Pictionary * pronunciation dictionary * subdictionary * translating dictionary * translationarySee also
* lexicon * encyclopedia * vocabularyAnagrams
*Verb
(en-verb)- By a reference to the following dictionaried abbreviations, the simplicity and harmony of each sentence will be manifestly apparent; although it does not embrace everything, and could not, as it would be far too voluminous for general use.
- Should I use a word that a lot of people use but isn't in the dictionary? Uncle Phil would rather get a root canal than say he was scrapbooking, because the word isn't dictionaried .
- They [dictionary-makers] may have had their romance at home — may have been crossed in love, and thence driven to dictionarying ; may have been involved in domestic tragedies — who can say?
encyclopedic
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Alternative forms
* encyclopaedic *Adjective
(en adjective)- [p 151] Although separate encyclopedic sections have nothing to do with the dictionary proper, there are no compelling logical reasons for condemning them.
- [p 212] Terms derived from names fall into three categories. Some, like Chomskyan'', refer to a person and the work done by that person, or to a place or a person from that place (''Virginian, Londoner ), and should be defined only in relation to the person or place. They are essentially encyclopedic entries and, if the dictionary contains an entry for the person or place in question, could well be run on without a separate definition.
- [p 359] The difficulty of distinguishing between lexical units and items in a nomenclature is especially nettlesome in specialized dictionaries, which are by their nature more encyclopedic than general dictionaries.