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

The notion of entry, as described many times in these pages, includes (1) head-word,(2) inflected forms (which, in the sole case of the MW-III , includes regular inflections, which pumps up the entry count considerably), (3) changes in parts of speech, (4) embedded boldface entries (like idioms and phrases), (5) run-on forms (those that are added at the ends of entries to illustrate headwords with suffixes of transparent meaning added, e.g., national and nationally run on to nation and nationalization run on to nationalize , (6) spelling variants (like British honour, nationalise, nationalisation , etc.).
Thus, a dictionary with approximately 80,000 headwords, the size of American college dictionaries, contains more than 170,000 entries.
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.
To ignore this fact is to treat the book as if it were a dictionary of headwords with no accompanying definitions or etymologies.
To give you a sample of what's to come, let me mention a few representative headwords from Volume IV—chosen simply because I like them.