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a reference book giving information about the meanings, pronunciations, uses, and origins of words listed in alphabetical order
try to develop the habit of going to the dictionary whenever you encounter an unfamiliar word
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Don’t shy away from exploring the depths of your subconscious — consider a dream dictionary with symbols and meanings.
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Valerie Mesa, People.com, 8 Oct. 2024
Naturally, plenty of Gen Z slang and social media terminology also joins the English language in the dictionary this year.
—Melissa Kravitz Hoeffner, Forbes, 1 Oct. 2024
The miracle enables physicists to perform otherwise impossible quantum calculations — by calculating them in the other perspective and using the dictionary to translate the results back.
—Charlie Wood, Quanta Magazine, 25 Sep. 2024
Despite working with limited data sets—the agency has a little over 350 dictionaries for each unique language, many of which are still incomplete—Aminudin is undeterred.
—Chad De Guzman, TIME, 5 Sep. 2024
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Valerie Mesa, People.com, 8 Oct. 2024
Naturally, plenty of Gen Z slang and social media terminology also joins the English language in the dictionary this year.
—Melissa Kravitz Hoeffner, Forbes, 1 Oct. 2024
The miracle enables physicists to perform otherwise impossible quantum calculations — by calculating them in the other perspective and using the dictionary to translate the results back.
—Charlie Wood, Quanta Magazine, 25 Sep. 2024
Despite working with limited data sets—the agency has a little over 350 dictionaries for each unique language, many of which are still incomplete—Aminudin is undeterred.
—Chad De Guzman, TIME, 5 Sep. 2024
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“Dictionary.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dictionary. Accessed 22 Nov. 2024.
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