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Example sentences for: headword

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

Then, thinking that we have captured them all, we find that passkey, passmark , and password are given separate headword status, presumably because they are solid.
Fourth, I think it a mistake to merge under one headword words of distinctly different provenances (that is, homographs), as in gloss . And, finally, there are far too many typographical errors for a book of this sort: under absent : “4nt”; after: “millenium”; loo: “existance.”
Typically, an entry begins with the etymology of the headword, e.g.:
Longman: a dictionary headword [!], often together with its definition.
The general production of the book is poor: the paper has too much “see-through,” causing the type on the back of a page to interfere with the legibility; the type is too gray; the definitions are run into one another, with semicolons in place of definition numbers, making it difficult to distinguish senses and requiring one to read through a long entry before coming to the sense sought; it is almost impossible to discover where a new part of speech begins; subentries of idiomatic phrases and phrasal verbs are given the same prominence as headwords, making them easy to find but detracting from the headword treatment; and the substandard typography has created many loose lines which poor proofreading has failed to catch.