Example sentences for: lexicographic

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

  • Those of us who deal with the lexicographic side of language are well aware of what Jeans characterizes as the astonishing debt that our idiomatic speech owes to the nautical language of the past.

  • As American language buffs know--even those who do not take The New York Times --he is a fearless commentator on every aspect of English who has gathered behind him not only an army of admires but a cadre of contributors, dubbed “the Lexicographic Irregulars,’ who send him citations, comments, and queries.

  • Lexicographic technocrats enjoy using terms like terminology, terminography, LSP language for special purposes, LGP language for general purposes, lemma, lexeme , and other words, reflecting the notion, long prevalent in psychology, sociology, and other social sciences, that if you can give a problem a name, you have somehow gone a long way toward solving it.

  • In a move that, from a lexicographic standpoint, is decidedly un-American, the government set up an official board to rule on and standardize the use of place names, both domestic and foreign.

  • Rather, it constitutes what publishers call a “package,” that is, it contains a fair amount of lexicographic material but little or nothing that is original.


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