Example sentences for: dictionary

How can you use “dictionary” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • One of our proudest moments came when, upon first loading into our computer the CD-ROM of the Second Edition of the Oxford English Dictionary , we discovered that it contains 121 quotations from VERBATIM.

  • The Celtic names grug and fraoch apparently come from Old Celtic v-roikos , which is cognate (or so says Klein's Etymological Dictionary ) with Latin brucus , meaning `maned or bristled.

  • I assume that has something to do with trademark worries ("Webster's" is part of the name of several dictionaries now), but it may also reflect an unwillingness on the part of dictionary makers to admit that the public doesn't discriminate the dictionary brands the way marketers would like them to.

  • Contrary to assertion, the language of the internet and some of the associated culture and attitudes of its writers, as of a certain time, is captured quite well in The New Hacker's Dictionary 2d edition, (1993, MIT Press).

  • If a relatively limited access to a synonym dictionary is likely to be of use, then this package may be of service.


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