What is the difference between vocabulary and dictionary?
vocabulary | dictionary |
A usually alphabetized and explained collection of words e.g. of a particular field, or prepared for a specific purpose, often for learning.
The collection of words a person knows and uses.
The stock of words used in a particular field.
The words of a language collectively.
A range of artistic or stylistic forms or techniques
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.
Dictionary is a coordinate term of vocabulary.
As nouns the difference between vocabulary and dictionary
is that vocabulary is a usually alphabetized and explained collection of words e.g. of a particular field, or prepared for a specific purpose, often for learning while 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
to look up in a dictionary.vocabulary
English
Noun
(vocabularies)- My Russian vocabulary is very limited.
- The vocabulary of social sciences is often incomprehensible to ordinary people.
- The vocabulary of any language is influenced by contacts with other cultures.
Derived terms
* defining vocabulary * controlled vocabulary * extended vocabularyCoordinate terms
* dictionary * lexicon * wordhoard (obsolete)Synonyms
* (l) * (l) * (l)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?