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Example sentences for: headwords

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

In case you didn't recognize those Volume IV headwords, here they are again:
In passing, we cannot refrain from reiterating our perennial complaint about the typography of the newer dictionaries: although the body text is a paragon of clarity, the headwords are set in bold sans-serif type, which makes the characters of some words indistinguishable.
Does that mean that the number of headwords equals the number of entries?
The syllabication of headwords is not an important feature in British dictionaries: the Collins English Dictionary , which offered an elaborate system in its first edition (1979), set the words solid in its second edition (1986), but I am informed that the major portion of the correspondence received at Collins Publishing concerning the dictionary concerns this change and is critical of it.
Both Longman and W9 estimate their macrostructure ( headwords/entries ) and their microstructure ( definitions ). But what of Cobuild and CED ? What do they mean by references ? In CED the relevant definition of reference seems to be “a book or passage referred to,” or perhaps “a mention or allusion”; in Cobuild , “something such as a number or name that tells you where you can obtain the information that you want, for example from a book, list, or map.