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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
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
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
What is the origin of the phrase Top of the morning to you? The phrase is Irish in origin but now very rarely used in Ireland (except as a sterotypical "Irishism") It simply means "the best of the morning to you" - perhaps from the idea of unhomogenised milk, where the cream rises to the top An appropriate response might be a simple "thank you" although the traditional response would be "And the rest of the day to yourself " Terrible attempts at
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
What does “flustrated” mean, and is it a word? What does the flustrated mean? Is it even a word? I am using Lingea Lexicon and it doesn’t know this word, but the Internet is full of it I find myself getting mad at people for using it both in