dictionary

The dictionary is an alphabetical listing of words, in any given language or cross-language, which provides definitions, proper pronunciation, correct spelling, and derivations as well as any restrictive labels attached to a word. A good dictionary is an invaluable tool for anyone who uses the written word and would like to do so more effectively and correctly.

Robert Cawdrey's "Table Alphabetical," first printed in 1604, is generally regarded to be the first fully developed representative of the monolingual dictionary in English.  One of the earliest known dictionaries was written in Latin and compiled during the reign of Augustus. The Chinese had a dictionary in the third century B.C.  In 1806, Noah Webster compiled his dictionary of the English language, America's first dictionary. The British Philological Society to begin compiling a comprehensive dictionary, which would later become the Oxford English Dictionary.

Dictionaries are found in book form, online for free or paid, and as software programs for computers, and PDAs.

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• Numerical Orderliness

  
  I Am The Cheese — Authority: 424
    Someone should make a numerical dictionary. I keep forgetting how to write “ six trillion seven hundred and forty four billion eight hundred and ninety two million five hundred and thirty one thousand nine hundred and seventy two “. I don’t think my dictionary is very good with numbers.   note: ...
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• Getting paid through AdSense program

  
  Business Blog — Authority: 142
  Getting paid through AdSense program Once you have setup your AdSense account and updated your website with AdSense code, you would surely be looking forward to earning some revenue from the AdSense Ads. Though revenue will start accruing to your AdSense account almost immediately, the actual payments to you are ...
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• perspicuous

  
  Merriam-Webster's Word of the Day — Authority: 127
  Merriam-Websters Word of the Day for November 14, 2009 is: perspicuous • \per-SPIK-yuh-wus\  • adjective : plain to the understanding especially because of clarity and precision of presentation Example sentence: "His language is very pure, perspicuous, and to the point." (John Kaminski, The ...
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• Top 4 Tips for getting the best results from your AdSense Ads

  
  Business Blog — Authority: 142
  The revenue that you earn from Google AdSense program is totally dependent on you and your abilities. Here are some tips that you can use to get the best results from your AdSense Ads: 1. Use channels: Channels help you in conducting a better analysis of the performance of your AdSense Ads. You can use custom ...
  14 hours ago

• unruly visual dictionary

  
  unruly helpmeet — Authority: 127
  The unruly children present: A Visual Dictionary Ballerina: Anyone who buys a used leotard for $1.50 and spins around a lot * Big Kid: Someone who stays up late, has special treats, rides a bigger bike, jumps very high, runs so so fast, has more frequent birthdays, and doesnt have to wear pants ...
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• White Picket Fences

  
  Christy's Book Blog — Authority: 125
  Mias x-ray showed that her elbow has healed enough for her to go without a cast, for which we are all so happy! I dropped her off at school after the appointment, and she must have overused the arm, because she was in tears when she got off of the bus from pain, and shes wearing the sling again just to offer some ...
  15 hours ago

• Hypocritical: Rock & Roll Dictionary

  
  Rock and Roll Guru — Authority: 144
  Hypocritical : writing a book celebrating atheism and then praying it will sell.
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• Find Your Niche - The Internet Marketer’s Goldmine

  
  Free Internet Marketing Information — Authority: 159
  If you haven’t heard the word ‘niche’ being batted around by Internet Marketers then you haven’t been listening. Finding a niche has become the antidote to competing in overly saturated online markets. What is a niche? According to Merriam-Webster’s Online Dictionary a niche is described as “a place, ...
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• Lenguaje Ensamblador en .NET y otras ideas

  
  Windows 2008 Security — Authority: 152
  Hola Comunidad, El siguiente post es sobre algo no tan nuevo en .NET que le
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• Principal Bans “Meep”

  
  Blippitt.com — Authority: 598
  Students at Danvers High School in Massachusetts have been banned from uttering the word "meep," a word which is commonly used by Muppet Show character Beaker. Principal Thomas Murray banned the strange word after school officials received word of a student uprising that had bee brewing on Facebook .  Students ...
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• Obama asks, “Who are you going to believe, me or that lying dictionary?”

  
  Liberty Maven Liberty Maven: For Liberty, One Individual At A Time — Authority: 549
  D o w n s i z e r – D i s p a t c h The “cap and trade” bill will supposedly limit CO2 emissions. But it’s really a giant tax increase, mostly on the middle class. This violates promises President Obama and the Democrats made to get elected. The President even wants to redefine the word “tax” in order ...
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• Public Domain Images from Webster ~ Fruits, Flags & Coats of Arms

  
  Perpetualplum's Weblog — Authority: 116
    Again this week, I’m uploading colored illustrations from my shabby Webster’s.   Actually with the number of illustrations in this book, I could be uploading for several more weeks.   Like last week,  all the illustrations are in color.  The illustrations this week  are even larger.  They are ...
  21 hours ago

• I Needed A Funnel

  
  Life at HOK — Authority: 132
  With a little encouragement from Rachel Peine  I am posting a picture from my breakfast this morning.  You see, in this design intensive industry, when an item is not available to us, we create one… I used a piece of scrap paper to make a funnel so that I could chocolatize my milk with chocolate powdery ...
  22 hours ago

• Network Dictionary — Knowledge Worker

  
  My Etherealmind — Authority: 426
  Define "Knowledge Worker"
  23 hours ago

• Hey Justin, to answer that question you IM’d me…

  
  Schadenfreude. — Authority: 134
  It’s called a “hustle.” photo courtesy Fred Mowery
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• Beauty Dictionary: Beauty Acronyms

  
  beautifulwithbrains.com — Authority: 133
  If you regularly read beauty blogs and forums, you surely have come across lots of acronyms and abbreviations, like BNIB or HE for example. But what do they mean? While some of them are pretty easy to understand at first glance, others are more complicated and you could be wrecking your brains for hours trying to ...
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• Profitable Proposition For Investing

  
  Make Cash Online Today — Authority:
  Maybe you currently do not invest, because you think it is too risky. Or perhaps you own stock in the past few years, and seriously reconsider their investment strategies, because your portfolio has taken a turn for the worse during the recent bear market and still has not recovered. If any of these situations applies ...
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• gust

  
  Merriam-Webster's Word of the Day — Authority: 127
  Merriam-Websters Word of the Day for November 13, 2009 is: gust • \GUST\  • noun : keen delight Example sentence: The hungry children ate every morsel with gust. Did you know? Youre no doubt familiar with the simple "gust" that means "a brief burst of wind." But that word, which first ...
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• Art Journal Update

  
  creativitE — Authority: 120
  Im trying to catch up my art journal since I didnt work on it last week.  I still have a bit more to finish up tonight, but I wanted to share what Ive done so far... I made some add-in booklets out of dictionary pages that will go in between the main pages. I also made a couple of collage sheets and then ...
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• The Art of Survivorship

  
  Wendy Harpham on Healthy Survivorship — Authority: 421
  Last evening I was interviewed by Betsy de Parry on Lymphomation Live, a weekly webcast sponsored by Patients Against Lymphoma. In this show entitled "The Art of Survivorship," we discuss...
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