Words similar to definitions
- defense
- defenses
- deferred
- deficiency
- defining
- definite
- definitely
- definition
- definition--also
- definition--in
- definition--it
- definition-writing
- definitional
- definitions
- definitions--fifteen
- definitions--really
- definitions—but
- definition—conjunct
- definitive
- deflating
- deflation
- defleur
- defoe
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Example sentences for: definitions
How can you use “definitions” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:
Authors put in text definitions easily forgo-able by readers.
In the US, publishers do not generally advertise the number of definitions in their dictionaries but flaunt their entry counts.
First, let us look at the statistics (as presented on the back of the dustjacket of the New Shorter [NSOED ]): 500,000 definitions; 96,600 headwords; 7.5 million words; 25,250 variant spellings; 83,000 illustrative quotations; 7300 sources of quotations (including VERBATIM and 5900 individual authors, among which appears the name of your proud editor).
To return to whimsical definitions.
To be sure, the W usage note, even with its verbosity and the oxymoron “pure hyperbole,” is more helpful than L 's cryptic “disapproved of by some speakers”; but the definitions are better in L because they assume that if a user does not know the meaning of literally , then that of literal is unlikely to be that obvious.
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