Example sentences for: macrostructure

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

  • 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.

  • So we still have no way of knowing whether Longman's macrostructure is smaller or larger than W9 's!

  • No sooner have we assumed that W9's macrostructure of “Almost 160,000 entries” means vocabulary entries , than we must face the possibility that it includes such other dictionary entries as Harvard U., McGill U ., and Abilene Christian U . Have they been counted in?

  • The macrostructure of the word list should be understood as the arrangement of the lemmata occurring in the word list.

  • And that therefore Longman's macrostructure (number of entries ) is much smaller than that of W9 or CED ? We need to look more closely at the meaning of entry .


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