entry word

An entry word is the headword in a dictionary, encyclopedia, or glossary.

Usually references can serve to direct users from words not used as the primary entry word to the word that does have this status.

In the sicker it says under the Multiple entry word: "Each visit limited to 90 days.

His poems are didactic in nature, and either define the entry word in question, or highlight its antonyms.

Its name is Jones, and the guest program entry word is "Michelangelo.""

With 35,000 entry words, 700 illustrations, pronunciation keys and a helpful introductory guide to using the book, it's a worthwhile, long-lasting investment.

Gnut said the entry words.

Stress is not normally marked in writing, except occasionally to distinguish between homographs, or in dictionaries for the entry words.

For preliterate native speakers of a language, the pictures in these dictionaries both define the entry words and are the "keys" to their pronunciation.

In response, the 4th edition Kōjien (1991) was a major revision that added some 15,000 entry words, bringing the total to over 220,000.

First, it will be useful to introduce some key Japanese terms for dictionaries and collation (ordering of entry words) that the following discussion will be using.

An allowable word must appear as an entry in that dictionary or as one of the listed inflected forms of an entry word.

Columns of this matrix are labelled with possible syntactic properties of each entry word and semantic properties, e.g.,'concrete ','animate ', etc.

If the function is understanding foreign-language texts the dictionary will contain foreign-language entry words and native-language definitions, which have been written so that they can be understood by the intended user groups.

A careful estimate indicates that the TBDNE contains about 9,000 headwords with an additional 2,000 or so other entry words; of these 11,000 or so entries, some 2,300 (about 21%) are phrasal.

First, they may have entry words in one language and definitions in another language - these dictionaries give help to understand legal texts, usually written in a foreign language, and to acquire knowledge, usually about a foreign legal system.

Second, bilingual law dictionaries with entry words in one language and equivalents in another language provide help to translate legal texts, into or from a foreign language, and sometimes also to produce legal texts, usually in a foreign language.

The selection of 1200 entries for inclusion seems a bit esoteric, but the general structure of the work--entry word, part of speech, definition, citation(s), and, in many cases, an explanatory comment on the origin of the term, its etymology, and other information--is straightforward.

In modern Korean dictionaries, all entry words of Sino-Korean origin are printed in hangul and listed in hangul order, with the hanja given in parentheses immediately following the entry word.

By way of contrast, in a standard dictionary words are organized such that words with the same prefix appear in order, since the sorting order is starting with the first letter of the entry word and subsequent letters proceeding toward the end of that word.

For example, A Reverse Dictionary of the Spanish Language and Walker's Rhyming Dictionary are reverse dictionaries, the organization of which is based upon sorting each entry word based upon its last letter and the subsequent letters proceeding toward the beginning of that word.

The lexicographic numbers (given in bold after the entry word) reflect degrees or levels of semantic distance between Lexical Units within a vocable: Roman numerals mark the highest-level semantic groupings, while Arabic numerals mark the next highest level, and letters indicate the lowest level distances.

Passamaquoddy-Maliseet Dictionary from the Mi'kmaq-Maliseet Institute, University of New Brunswick (includes sound files with the pronunciation of the entry words, videos of native speakers' conversations including the entry words, and detailed grammatical charts)