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- vocabulary - Difference between lexicon and dictionary - English . . .
A lexicon is a list of words that belong to a particular language Sometimes, lexicon is used as another word for thesaurus (see below) A dictionary is a list of words and phrases that are (or were) in common usage, together with their definitions - so a dictionary is different from a lexicon because a lexicon is a simple list and doesn't define the words A thesaurus is a dictionary of
- Difference between lexicon, vocabulary and dictionary
Some say the lexicon is inherent to a language (objective) while a vocabulary is only relative to a (group of) person (s) (subjective) Wikipedia says the lexicon is the vocabulary of a language Dictionary should be an easy one, it's a mapping, either between languages or between words and word sense definitions
- differences - Terminology vs jargon vs lexicon - English Language . . .
A lexicon is just a catalog or dictionary of terms Terminology is the set of specialized terms in my field of study These items are clearly understood by others in my field of study Jargon is a set of terms used by people in other fields of study These terms are confusing, ambiguous and frustrating
- Whats a big-vocabulary word for someone with a big vocabulary?
A lexicomane? Literally: someone who’s mad about dictionaries… This seems to be too new and or marginal a coinage to appear in the major dictionaries yet; but it’s made from standard parts, and made well, so should be easily comprehensible (certainly by any big-vocabulary-person), and seems to be gaining quite a bit of currency (googling it reveals plenty of use) On Wordnik
- meaning - What is it called when words are deliberately spelled . . .
For example, Night -> Nite Through -> Thru The -> Da Though -> Tho Nite even appears in some dictionaries as having the same meaning as night What is it called when words are deliberat
- Part of speech of very, extremely, really, and quite
While working on developing the lexicon in one of my constructed languages, I encountered a slight difficulty in using standard classifications for words like very, extremely, really, and quite To
- What are the percentages of the parts of speech in English?
All words not used in discourse -- even as they listed in a lexicon (without meanings) are nouns They don't become Parts of Speech (or writing, which is recorded speech) until they are used as one of the Eight (nine in England) parts of speech
- Origin of wise guy to mean a member of the Mafia (US)
Epithets are frequently appropriated by the recipients and incorporated into their own lexicon, which is what happened with the gangsters who began referring to themselves as "wise guys " The term was popularized in the movie "Goodfellas," and then Hollywood took it all the way to this question here and now I'm answering it
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