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pos: Longest word in English major English language dictionaries is "pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis", a word that refers to a lung disease contracted from the inhalation of very fine silica particles, specifically from a volcano; medically, it is the same as silicosis. The word was deliberately coined to be the longest word in English, and has since been used in a close approximation of its originally intended meaning, lending at least some degree of validity to its claim. The "Oxford English Dictionary" contains "pseudopseudohypoparathyroidism" (30 letters). "Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary" does not contain "antidisestablishmentarianism" (28 letters), as the editors found no widespread, sustained usage of the word in its

pos: Antidisestablishmentarianism (word) Antidisestablishmentarianism (word) The English word antidisestablishmentarianism (, ) is notable for its unusual length of 28 letters and 12 syllables, and is one of the longest words in the English language. It has been cited as the longest word in the English language (excluding coined and technical terms), although some sources say that it is not used enough to carry that title. The longest word found in a major dictionary is "pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis", but this is a technical term that was coined specifically to be the longest word. The word became known in the public realm in the United States via

pos: Longest words has been certified by the Dutch Language Union (the official Dutch language institute) and is included in many open-source applications, contains the following longest words, which are 40 letters long: The word often said to be the longest in Dutch – probably because of its funny meaning and alliteration – which has also appeared in print, is " ("construction ground for the Hottentot soldiers' tents exhibition"); counting 53 letters. The 45-letter word pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis is the longest English word that appears in a major dictionary. Antidisestablishmentarianism, at 28 letters, is the longest non-coined, non-systematic English word in Oxford Dictionaries. It refers

pos: Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis () is a word invented by the president of the National Puzzlers' League as a synonym for the disease known as silicosis. It is the longest word in the English language published in a dictionary, the "Oxford English Dictionary", which defines it as "an artificial long word said to mean a lung disease caused by inhaling very fine ash and sand dust." Silicosis is a form of occupational lung disease caused by inhalation of crystalline silica dust, and is marked by inflammation and scarring in the form of nodular lesions in the upper lobes of the lungs. It

neg: Longest words goaty-legged-above-and-under-general-war-commanding-sergeant") as a parody on the long Danish military titles. This word is 54 letters long. Dutch, like many Germanic languages, is capable of forming compounds of potentially limitless length. The 53-letter word "Kindercarnavalsoptochtvoorbereidingswerkzaamhedenplan", meaning "preparation activities plan for a children's carnival procession", was cited by the 1996 Guinness Book of World Records as the longest Dutch word. The longest word in the authoritative Van Dale Dutch dictionary (2009 edition) "in plural form" is "; 38 letters long, meaning "multiple personality disorders". The entry in the dictionary however is in the singular, counting 35 letters. The free OpenTaal dictionary, which

neg: Letters and Numbers may return for a special tournament at the end of each series. Every contestant also wins a "Macquarie Dictionary 5th Edition", signed by the presenters. One contestant chooses how many vowels and consonants they would like to make up nine randomly chosen letters. There must be at least three vowels and four consonants. The contestants then have thirty seconds to find the longest word that they can make out of these letters. Any word which appears in the "Macquarie Dictionary" is allowable, as well as some inflections. The contestant with the longest word is awarded one point for each letter

neg: Longest word in English original meaning. The longest word in that dictionary is "electroencephalographically" (27 letters). The longest non-technical word in major dictionaries is "floccinaucinihilipilification" at 29 letters. Consisting of a series of Latin words meaning "nothing" and defined as "the act of estimating something as worthless"; its usage has been recorded as far back as 1741. Ross Eckler has noted that most of the longest English words are not likely to occur in general text, meaning non-technical present-day text seen by casual readers, in which the author did not specifically intend to use an unusually long word. According to Eckler, the longest words

neg: Longest word in Turkish Longest word in Turkish As an agglutinative language, Turkish allows the construction of words by adding many suffixes to a word stem. The longest word in the Turkish language used in a text is ""muvaffakiyetsizleştiricileştiriveremeyebileceklerimizdenmişsinizcesine"" which has 70 letters. It is derived from the noun ""muvaffakiyet"" (success) and means "As though you are from those whom we may not be able to easily make into a maker of unsuccessful ones". It was used in a contrived story designed to use this word. Not considering suffixes, the longest Turkish dictionary words have 20 letters: These are "kuyruksallayangiller" (the biological genus Motacillidae),

neg: Longest words in language: The longest word in Spanish is "" (inflammation of the sternocleidomastoid muscle, 30 letters). Runners-up are "" ([proceeding in a manner that is] contrary to the constitution) and "" (specialists that do electrical scans on brains (electroencephalographists)), both 23 letters. The word "" is usually considered the longest word "in general use". This word can be made even longer by the addition of the absolute superlative suffix, rendering "anticonstitucionalísimamente" (i.e.: "very strongly against the constitution"). Some dictionaries (but not the RAE dictionary) removed its root word ("anticonstitucional") in 2005, causing comments about it not "being a valid word

neg: Longest words use in ordinary language. Afrikaans, as it is a daughter language of the Dutch language, is capable of forming compounds of potentially limitless length in the same way as in the Dutch language. According to the Total Book of South African Records, the longest word in the language is The longest Basque toponym is "" (39). The Bulgarian online etymological dictionary claims that longest word in Bulgarian to be the 39-letter-long ("), introduced in the Constitution of Bulgaria of 1947 (Dimitrov Constitution). The word means "do not perform actions against the constitution" (addressed to more than one person). The longest

neg: Joseph Esmond Riddle a vigorous defender of evangelical principles against the Tractarian movement. At Ramsgate Riddle began a translation of Immanuel Johann Gerhard Scheller's folio Latin dictionary, "Lexicon totius Latinitatis", and it was published at the Clarendon Press in 1835. Several abridgments followed, and in 1838 he issued a "Complete English-Latin Dictionary", and in 1849 "A Copious and Critical Latin-English Lexicon", based on the dictionaries of Wilhelm Freund. Riddle was also joint editor of Latin dictionaries with John Tahourdin White, and of an "English-Latin Dictionary" with Thomas Kerchever Arnold. Riddle's other major publications were: Riddle contributed to the "Encyclopædia Metropolitana" the articles "Annals

neg: Longest words which means: "About your investigations of the upgradeability of the manifestation of the syndrome of the neurosis about the need to decide which is the world record of the most complex longest word." The longest dictionary form word is the word in use (although it is constructed from the word: "szent" meaning: "saint"), "", with 25 characters, and means "something that cannot be desecrated". Icelandic has the ability to form compounds of arbitrary length by stringing together genitives (), so no single words of maximal length exist in the language. However, and are sometimes cited as particularly long words; the

neg: Longest words (30 letters).. Other long words are: There is some disagreement about what is the longest word in the Korean language. The longest word appearing in the "Standard Korean Dictionary" published by the National Institute of the Korean Language is (); Revised Romanization: ", which is a kind of ceramic bowl from the Goryeo dynasty; that word is 17 syllable blocks long, and contains a total of 46 hangul letters. The term (), a phonetic transcription of "nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide", has a larger number of syllable blocks (19) but a smaller number of letters (41), and also might not qualify as

neg: Scrabble variants the winner. In others, a calculation based on word length is used to determine the winner. Some variants allow for the exchange of unwanted tiles. Local variants include Take One or Take Four; the banning of 2 letter words; having a dictionary on hand for any players to use (but since it is a game of speed, this doesn't get used much); a bonus of 50 points for building the word "chicken", a bonus for longest word (number of letters in word, not tile values; and only if a single player has longest word), etc. Team Speed Scrabble is when

neg: Longest word in Spanish as well (25 letters). In the table below, all of the Spanish nouns except for "arteriosclerosis" can be pluralised by adding an "s" to the end. The adjective "otorrinolaringológico" can also be pluralised with an "s"; the plurals of the other adjectives end in "es". The "RAE" column indicates whether the Real Academia Española lists and defines the word in the "Diccionario de la lengua española", its official dictionary. Longest word in Spanish This article describes some of the longest words in the Spanish language. "Esternocleidooccipitomastoideos" (31-letters) is the plural of the noun "esternocleidooccipitomastoideo", which is the sternocleidomastoid, a muscle

neg: Star Golden Bell correct word, they move onto a second hit, for a smaller dollar amount. This time, a dictionary definition is read. Previously, the positions of the first and second hints were switched. If the word still has not been guessed, a third, less-valuable hint is given, in which the consonants of the word are shown. The final segment, which has remained unchanged, has the winner of the third segment answering a difficult riddle or trivia question. If the question is answered correctly, the amount in the pot is deposited into the donation pot. If the question is answered incorrectly, the day's

neg: Longest words of thousands of characters in length. The rules of creation of such names are commonly defined by international bodies, therefore they formally belong to many languages. The longest recognized systematic name is for the protein titin, at 189,819 letters. While lexicographers regard generic names of chemical compounds as "verbal formulae" rather than words, for its sheer length the systematic name for titin is often included in longest-word lists. Longest word candidates may be judged by their acceptance in major dictionaries such as the "Oxford English Dictionary" or in record-keeping publications like "Guinness World Records", and by the frequency of their

neg: Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious children. In another instance, they wrote: When we were little boys in the mid-1930’s, we went to a summer camp in the Adirondack Mountains, where we were introduced to a very long word that had been passed down in many variations through many generations of kids. … The word as we first heard it was super-cadja-flawjalistic-espealedojus. The Oxford English Dictionary defines the word as "a nonsense word, originally used esp. by children, and typically expressing excited approbation: fantastic, fabulous", while Dictionary.com says it is "used as a nonsense word by children to express approval or to represent the longest word

neg: Four Bird Brothers asks, is "Which bird will die earliest?". The proper answer for this riddle is that the bird that drinks tears will die earliest, even though it may seem that the bird that drinks poison will die earlier. This is due to that tear represents sadness of people. Another riddle that involves this tale is "Which bird will live longest?" The proper answer for this is that the bird that drinks blood will live longest, although every one dislikes blood-drinking bird due to the smell of blood. The third possible riddle is "Which bird will fly fastest?" The proper answer for

neg: A Greek–English Lexicon dictionary. It is also sometimes compared with the Bauer lexicon, which is a similar work focused on the Greek of the New Testament. Greek scholars use these books so much that two short memorable clerihews have been written to describe the seminal work: 1. <poem>Liddell and Scott, Liddell and Scott: Some of it's riddle, and some of it's rot. That which is riddle was written by Liddell, That which is rot was written by Scott.</poem> 2. <poem>Two men wrote a dictionary, Liddell and Scott, And one half was good, the other was not. Now tell me the answer, boys, quick,

neg: Euouae Amen." According to the "Guinness Book of World Records", at six letters long, "Euouae" is the longest word in the English language made up of nothing but vowels (the v spelling notwithstanding), and also the English word with the most consecutive vowels. As a mnemonic coming from Latin, it is unclear that it should count as an English word; however, it is found in the unabridged Collins English Dictionary. A similar abbreviation, Aevia (or Aeuia), was used for Alleluia in medieval Office books. In Venetian and other Italian Office-Books of the 16th century, an equivalent abbreviation Hal'a, or Hal'ah, can

neg: Veronese Riddle the word for "plow" in today's Veronese dialect (and the other varieties of Venetian language) as the verb "parar" is still the word for 'push on', 'drive', 'lead' (in Italian " spingere", "guidare"). Michele A. Cortelazzo and Ivano Paccagnella say that the plural "-es" of "boves" may well be considered Ladin and therefore not Latin, but Romance too. "Albo" is early Italian, especially since Germanic "blank" entered Italian usage later, leading to current Italian "bianco" ("white"). Veronese Riddle The Veronese Riddle () is a riddle written in late Vulgar Latin on the margin of a parchment, on the Verona Orational,

neg: Reverse dictionary and Scavnicky's "A Reverse Dictionary of the Spanish Language". A form of "reverse dictionary" is the "suffix (word-listing) dictionary". The reverse word dictionary is a dictionary where the word entries in the dictionary are not alphabetized in the same manner as a traditional dictionary. For example, "A Reverse Dictionary of the Spanish Language" and "Walker's Rhyming Dictionary" are reverse dictionaries, the organization of which is based upon sorting each entry word upon its last letter and the subsequent letters proceeding toward the beginning of that word. Consequently, in these reverse dictionaries all words that have the same suffix appear in

neg: Oxford English Dictionary the "OED" second edition, 60 years to proofread them, and 540 megabytes to store them electronically. As of 30 November 2005, the "Oxford English Dictionary" contained approximately 301,100 main entries. Supplementing the entry headwords, there are 157,000 bold-type combinations and derivatives; 169,000 italicized-bold phrases and combinations; 616,500 word-forms in total, including 137,000 pronunciations; 249,300 etymologies; 577,000 cross-references; and 2,412,400 usage quotations. The dictionary's latest, complete print edition (second edition, 1989) was printed in 20 volumes, comprising 291,500 entries in 21,730 pages. The longest entry in the "OED2" was for the verb "set", which required 60,000 words to describe some 430

neg: La Sibilla a cryptic way, for which reason she has always been associated with the idea of mystery and enigmas. Monthly from 1975 to 1978, then bimonthly, the magazine has so far published 32 supplements ("Quaderni della Sibilla") and is one of the longest established puzzle magazines ever published in Italy. Among many other word puzzles, "La Sibilla" publishes works in poetic form (either long and with a serious subject, or short and witty called "epigrammatici") that are in fact puzzles alluding through hidden double meanings to a different subject, which must be found besides the apparent meaning (see riddle). It also

neg: Korochun word, as does also the "Romanian Etymological Dictionary", tracing its roots back to the Latin "creatio,-nis". However, most probably, this word is loanword with Slavic roots as in Romanian, as well as in Hungarian. "Koročun" or "Kračun" was a pagan Slavic holiday. It was considered the day when the Black God and other spirits associated with decay and darkness were most potent. The first recorded usage of the term was in 1143, when the author of the Novgorod First Chronicle referred to the winter solstice as "Koročun". It was celebrated by pagan Slavs on December 21, the longest night of

neg: ...ish (audio drama) ...ish (audio drama) …ish is a Big Finish Productions audio drama based on the long-running British science fiction television series "Doctor Who. The Sixth Doctor and Peri attend a conference of lexicographers at a college where an unfortunate murder has occurred. The victim was a perfectionist linguist compiling the galaxy's biggest dictionary, and also a personal friend of The Doctor, but the only suspect is her holographic assistant, named Book, who is also a repository for every word in the English language. The Omniverbum is the mythical longest word in existence. According to records, no one who has found the

neg: ...ish (audio drama) Distraught and unhinged enough to kill her... ...ish (audio drama) …ish is a Big Finish Productions audio drama based on the long-running British science fiction television series "Doctor Who. The Sixth Doctor and Peri attend a conference of lexicographers at a college where an unfortunate murder has occurred. The victim was a perfectionist linguist compiling the galaxy's biggest dictionary, and also a personal friend of The Doctor, but the only suspect is her holographic assistant, named Book, who is also a repository for every word in the English language. The Omniverbum is the mythical longest word in existence. According to

neg: Chinese dictionary "cídiǎn"; "tzʻŭ²-tien³"; "word dictionary") or (/词典; "cídiǎn"; "tzʻŭ²-tien³"; "word dictionary"); using "cí" (; "word, speech; phrase, expression; diction, phraseology; statement; a kind of poetic prose; depart; decline; resign"), and its graphic variant "cí" (; "word, term; expression, phrase; speech, statement; part of speech; a kind of tonal poetry"). "Zidian" is a much older and more common word than "cidian", and Yang (1985:xxii) notes "zidian" is often "used for both 'character dictionary' and 'word dictionary'." The precursors of Chinese dictionaries are primers designed for students of Chinese characters. The earliest of them only survive in fragments or quotations within Chinese classic

neg: Charades the 11th edition of the "Encyclopædia Britannica" offered these two prose charades as "perhaps as good as could be selected": and with the answers being tartar and conundrum. A charade was a form of literary riddle popularized in France in the 18th century where each syllable of the answer was described enigmatically as a separate word before the word as a whole was similarly described. The term "charade" was borrowed into English from French in the second half of the eighteenth century, denoting a "kind of riddle in which each syllable of a word, or a complete word or phrase,

neg: Exeter Book Riddle 24 Exeter Book Riddle 24 Exeter Book Riddle 24 (according to the numbering of the Anglo-Saxon Poetic Records) is one of the Old English riddles found in the later tenth-century Exeter Book. The riddle is one of a number to include runes as clues: they spell an anagram of the Old English word "higoræ" 'jay, magpie'. There has, therefore, been little debate about the solution. As edited by Williamson and translated by Stanton, the riddle reads: It is clear for metrical reasons that the runes were supposed to be sounded by their names, which are also words in their own right,

neg: Dictionary-based machine translation Dictionary-Based Machine translation explores a different paradigm from systems such as LMT. An example-based machine translation system is supplied with only a "sentence-aligned bilingual corpus". Using this data the translating program generates a "word-for-word bilingual dictionary" which is used for further translation. Whilst this system would generally be regarded as a whole different way of machine translation than Dictionary-Based Machine Translation, it is important to understand the complementing nature of this paradigms. With the combined power inherent in both systems, coupled with the fact that a Dictionary-Based Machine Translation works best with a "word-for-word bilingual dictionary" lists of words it

neg: De creatura as the 108-line Riddle 40 of the Exeter Book (according to the numbering of the Anglo-Saxon Poetic Records). This was itself shortened and reworked as the ten-line Riddle 66, and adapted even further as the now largely lost, presently six-line Riddle 94, both also found in the Exeter Book. These riddles stand as a rare example of an Old English poem surviving in multiple copies. "De creatura" is the culminatory hundredth poem of Aldhelm's collection of verse riddles, known as the "Enigmata", and also much the longest. The "Enigmata" survive included in his work on Latin poetics, the "Epistola ad

neg: Sphinx for the Sphinx noted by Pierre Grimal's "The Penguin Dictionary of Classical Mythology". The sphinx was the emblem of the ancient city-state of Chios, and appeared on seals and the obverse side of coins from the 6th century B.C. until the 3rd century CE. The Sphinx is said to have guarded the entrance to the Greek city of Thebes, asking a riddle to travellers to allow them passage. The exact riddle asked by the Sphinx was not specified by early tellers of the myth, and was not standardized as the one given below until late in Greek history. It was

neg: Chinese dictionary Chinese dictionary Chinese dictionaries date back over two millennia to the Han Dynasty, which is a significantly longer lexicographical history than any other language. There are hundreds of dictionaries for the Chinese language, and this article introduces some of the most important. The Chinese language has two words for dictionary: "zidian" (character/logograph dictionary) for written forms, that is, Chinese characters, and "cidian" (word/phrase dictionary), for spoken forms. For character dictionaries, "zidian" () combines "zi" ( "character, graph; letter, script, writing; word") and "dian" ( "dictionary, encyclopedia; standard, rule; statute, canon; classical allusion"). For word dictionaries, "cidian" is interchangeably written (/辞典;

neg: Babiniotis Dictionary court case Babiniotis Dictionary court case The court case of the "Babiniotis Dictionary" () was fought in Greece over the legality of the publication of a Modern Greek dictionary that included a definition of the word ""Bulgarian"" (referring to a person or persons). George Babiniotis, professor of linguistics at Athens University, managed the publication of a dictionary in 1998, named "Dictionary of Modern Greek", more commonly known as "Babiniotis Dictionary". The dictionary was published by the Lexicology Centre. For the word ""Bulgarian"" the dictionary provided a dual definition, first its normal use referring to persons descended from Bulgaria, and second a definition

neg: Cunt the word was "sacred", and "a word of immense power, to be used sparingly". "Cunt" has been attested in its anatomical meaning since at least the 13th century. While Francis Grose's 1785 "A Classical Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue" listed the word as "C**T: a nasty name for a nasty thing", it did not appear in any major English dictionary from 1795 to 1961, when it was included in "Webster's Third New International Dictionary" with the comment "usu. considered obscene". Its first appearance in the "Oxford English Dictionary" was in 1972, which cites the word as having been in use

neg: Exeter Book Riddle 30 Exeter Book Riddle 30 Exeter Book Riddle 30 (according to the numbering of the Anglo-Saxon Poetic Records) is one of the Old English riddles found in the later tenth-century Exeter Book. Since the suggestion of F. A. Blackburn in 1901, its solution has been agreed to be the Old English word "bēam", understood both in its primary sense 'tree' but also in its secondary sense 'cross'. The riddle is particularly important because it actually appears twice in the Exeter Book, on folios 108r (numbered 30a in the Anglo-Saxon Poetic Records) and 122v (numbered 30b). Parts of 30b are missing due

neg: Harry Potter in translation translators. One rhyme, a riddle told by a sphinx in "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire", posed a particular problem. The riddle involves taking words from a poem and using them to form a longer word, "spider," in answer to the riddle. In the Taiwanese translation, the English words are simply put in parentheses. In other translations, the riddle is changed to provide different words that can be put together to make up the translated version of "spider". Some acronyms also proved difficult; the abbreviations "O.W.L.s" (Ordinary Wizarding Levels) and "N.E.W.T.s" (Nastily Exhausting Wizarding Tests) needed to be translated

neg: Babiniotis Dictionary court case higher court, with case number 13/1999, decided to overturn the decision of the lower court. Babiniotis Dictionary court case The court case of the "Babiniotis Dictionary" () was fought in Greece over the legality of the publication of a Modern Greek dictionary that included a definition of the word ""Bulgarian"" (referring to a person or persons). George Babiniotis, professor of linguistics at Athens University, managed the publication of a dictionary in 1998, named "Dictionary of Modern Greek", more commonly known as "Babiniotis Dictionary". The dictionary was published by the Lexicology Centre. For the word ""Bulgarian"" the dictionary provided a dual

neg: Speech synthesis program. Determining the correct pronunciation of each word is a matter of looking up each word in the dictionary and replacing the spelling with the pronunciation specified in the dictionary. The other approach is rule-based, in which pronunciation rules are applied to words to determine their pronunciations based on their spellings. This is similar to the "sounding out", or synthetic phonics, approach to learning reading. Each approach has advantages and drawbacks. The dictionary-based approach is quick and accurate, but completely fails if it is given a word which is not in its dictionary. As dictionary size grows, so too does

neg: Karnataka Quiz Association VG. 39 Kolkata: Inmaniacs, 51 New Delhi: Telangana Is an Oily Song, 57 Mega-Whats Title Winners 2009—QED, Chennai Mega-Whats Face-off Winners 2009-10—QED, Chennai Bangalore: MetaQuizziks, 71 Chennai: QED, 76 Hyderabad: Swami and Friends, 46 Thrissur: Guessworks Inc., 43 Mumbai: Travelling Pilsbury, 53 Pune: Mega WTF, 32 Goa: Feni, Vidi, Vici, Twitchy., 41 Kolkata: Bong Connection, 52 New Delhi: Daydreamers, 42 Coimbatore: Quizzyleaks, 16 Mega-Whats Title Winners 2010—QED, Chennai Mega-Whats Face-off Winners 2010-11—Insignificant Others, Chennai Karnataka Quiz Association The Karnataka Quiz Association (or KQA) was founded in 1983 by the late Wing Commander G.R.Mulky, Deepak Murdeshwar, Rajeev Gowda, Thomas Uthup, K.N.Mahabala,

neg: Reverse dictionary Reverse dictionary A reverse dictionary is a dictionary organized in a non-standard order (usually referring to being in a so-called "reverse" order) that provides the user with information that would be difficult to obtain from a traditionally alphabetized dictionary. There are two principal types of reverse dictionaries: reverse "word" dictionaries, and reverse "concept" dictionaries (conceptual dictionary). This article discusses reverse word dictionaries; see conceptual dictionary for reverse concept dictionaries. Reverse dictionaries were historically difficult to produce before the advent of the electronic computer, but have become more common since 1974, when the first computer sorted reverse dictionary was published: Stahl

neg: Neddie Seagoon the setting of the plot; for instance: Seagoon had several catch-phrases, seemingly random gibberish that became his trademarks, such as "Ying tong yiddle I po!” (followed by a shout of "“GOOD!”" by someone else) and "Needle-nardle-noo". He would also express intense surprise by repeating the word "What?!" rapidly and in rising pitch, as "Whatwhatwhatwhatwhatwhatwhatwhatwhatwhatwhatwhat?" (in "The Moon Show", Grytpype replies to this by saying, "Only ten whats [watts as in the unit of power used to rate electric lamps]; you're not very bright, are you?"), and would do likewise with the word "Yes?" as "Yesyesyesyesyesyes?", generally motivating Grytpype-Thynne to request

neg: Official Scrabble Players Dictionary Official Scrabble Players Dictionary The Official Scrabble Players Dictionary or OSPD is a dictionary developed for use in the game Scrabble, by speakers of American and Canadian English. The "Official Scrabble Players Dictionary" was first published in 1978 through the efforts of the National Scrabble Association (NSA) Dictionary Committee and Merriam-Webster, primarily in response to a need for a word authority for NSA-sanctioned clubs and tournaments. Prior to its publication, Scrabble clubs and tournaments used "Funk & Wagnalls Standard College Dictionary" as an official word source, but as tournament play grew, this source proved unsatisfactory. The inclusion of foreign words

neg: Reverse dictionary data is available in electronic form. Reverse dictionary A reverse dictionary is a dictionary organized in a non-standard order (usually referring to being in a so-called "reverse" order) that provides the user with information that would be difficult to obtain from a traditionally alphabetized dictionary. There are two principal types of reverse dictionaries: reverse "word" dictionaries, and reverse "concept" dictionaries (conceptual dictionary). This article discusses reverse word dictionaries; see conceptual dictionary for reverse concept dictionaries. Reverse dictionaries were historically difficult to produce before the advent of the electronic computer, but have become more common since 1974, when the first computer

neg: William Shenstone to Shenstone (Add. MS. 28959), and correspondence between Shenstone and Bishop Percy from 1757 to 1763 the last being of especial interest; To Shenstone was due the original suggestion of Percy's Reliques, a service which would alone entitle him to a place among the precursors of the romantic movement in English literature. In a letter written in 1741 Shenstone became the first person to record the use of "floccinaucinihilipilification". In the first edition of the Oxford English Dictionary this was recognised as the longest word in the English language. William Shenstone William Shenstone (18 November 1714 – 11 February 1763)

neg: Dutch language Germanic languages) either uses the closed form without spaces ("boomhut" = tree house) or inserts a hyphen ("VVD-coryfee" = outstanding member of the VVD, a political party). Like German, Dutch allows arbitrarily long compounds, but the longer they get, the less frequent they tend to be. The longest serious entry in the Van Dale dictionary is (ceasefire negotiation). Leafing through the articles of association (Statuten) one may come across a 30-letter (authorisation of representation). An even longer word cropping up in official documents is "ziektekostenverzekeringsmaatschappij" (health insurance company) though the shorter "ziektekostenverzekeraar" (health insurer) is more common. Notwithstanding official spelling

neg: Official Scrabble Players Dictionary Collegiate Dictionary" (1973) and "Funk & Wagnalls" (1973). The compilation was produced by hand and many errata and omissions were later discovered. For example, the word "granola" was present in all five nominated dictionaries but not in the OSPD. A second edition, OSPD 2, was released in 1991. The current edition is OSPD 6, released in September 2018. Although OSPD bears the name "Official Scrabble Players Dictionary" no countries list their "official" dictionary as the OSPD, whereas the Official Tournament and Club Word List is the official word source of tournament Scrabble in the United States, Canada, Thailand and Israel.

neg: Dictionary (software) spelling errors. Clicking on any word in a definition searches for that word in the dictionary again. Almost any word is clickable, except the pronunciations in phonetic characters and numerals. The Preferences allow a user to select from three different pronunciation schemes, either US English (Diacritical or IPA), or British English (IPA). The dictionary and thesaurus in Dictionary are in an XML format, but make use of precompiled binary index files to access the XML file directly. Therefore, the lexicon cannot easily be modified. However, the user can add new words to the macOS system-wide spell checker, which uses its

neg: Anagram dictionary Anagram dictionary In the main type of anagram dictionary, the letters in words or phrases are rearranged in alphabetical order, and these transpositions are themselves then ordered alphabetically within word-length groups, so that any words consisting of this group of letters can be found. This arrangement is designed for use in solving word puzzles such as crosswords, or for playing games such as "Scrabble". The first such anagram dictionary was "The Crossword Anagram Dictionary" by R.J. Edwards In the other kind of anagram dictionary, words are categorized into equivalence classes that consist of words with the same number of each

neg: Collins English Dictionary Collins English Dictionary The Collins English Dictionary is a printed and online dictionary of English. It is published by HarperCollins in Glasgow. The edition of the dictionary in 1979 with Patrick Hanks as editor and Lawrence Urdang as editorial director, was the first British dictionary to use the full power of computer databases and typesetting in its preparation. This meant that, for instance, subject editors could control separate definitions of the same word and the results could be blended into the result, rather than one editor being responsible for a word. In a later edition, they increasingly used the Bank

neg: Fictionary Fictionary Fictionary, also known as The Dictionary Game or simply Dictionary, is a word game in which players guess the definition of an obscure word. Each round consists of one player selecting and announcing a word from the dictionary, and other players composing a fake definition for it. The definitions are collected by the selector and read aloud, and players vote on which definition they believe to be correct. Points are awarded for correct guesses, and for having a fake definition guessed by another player. The game requires a large and preferably unabridged dictionary, a pencil, pen or other writing

neg: Google Dictionary Dictionary for English until August 2010 when it switched to the Oxford American College Dictionary. After being integrated into Google Search the dictionary was discontinued as a separate service on August 5, 2011. And can now be accessed by using the "define" operator or by simply searching for the meaning of a word. The dictionary service is also still available in Google Translate and can be accessed by selecting a single word. Google has also released the service as an extension for Chrome. On Arabic Language Day (December 18) in 2015 Google added an Arabic language dictionary, available globally, to

neg: Urban Dictionary a description of some aspect of the word or phrase could suffice for inclusion in the dictionary. Originally, Urban Dictionary was intended as a dictionary of slang, or cultural words or phrases, not typically found in standard dictionaries, but it is now used to define any word or phrase. Words or phrases on Urban Dictionary may have multiple definitions, usage examples, and tags. Some examples include, but are not limited to "Angry Hitler" or "Russian Candy Cane." Visitors to Urban Dictionary may submit definitions without registering, but they must provide a valid email address. By default, each definition is accepted

neg: John Tahourdin White was ordained priest in 1839, and in 1841 was appointed curate at St. Martin Ludgate, serving until 1868, when he was instituted rector. White died at 17 Cambridge Road, Brighton, on 17 December 1893. White published editions of Greek and Latin authors, including the "Grammar School Texts". With Joseph Esmond Riddle he brought out in 1862 "A Latin-English Dictionary", London, based on Ethan Allen Andrews's translation of Wilhelm Freund's "Wörterbuch der lateinischen Sprache". Freund's "Wörterbuch" was published at Leipzig between 1834 and 1845, and Andrews's translation at New York in 1852. White and Riddle's "Dictionary" was later largely superseded by

neg: Riddles (Persian) Riddles (Persian) The Persian term for riddle is chīstān, literally 'what is it?', a word that frequently occurs in the opening formulae of Persian riddles. However, the Arabic loan-word "lughaz" is also used. Traditional Persian rhetorical manuals almost always handle riddles, but Persian riddles have enjoyed little modern scholarly attention. Yet in the assessment of A. A. Seyed-Gohrab, 'Persian literary riddles provide us with some of the most novel and intricate metaphors and images in Persian poetry'. Persian riddles occur in several different literary forms, and it is helpful to trace the history of the Persian riddle through these forms.

neg: Riddle drum referred to as Tambour. However how popular this French word was among the common folk of England is unknown. Tambour also means any drum with a single skin rather than Riddle Drum specifically. Some modern makers of Riddle Drums in England market them under the name "Hylsung". This is based on a strong circumstantial case that this was their name in the Dark Age England. Anglo-Saxon literature mentions only one drum in use in England, called a Hylsung, but gives no description of it. However Norse literature too in Edda mentions drums called Hylsung, though again with no description of

neg: Palindrome with one musician viewing the music upside down compared to the other. The result is somewhat like two speakers simultaneously reading the [[Sator square]] from opposite sides, except that it is typically in two-part polyphony rather than in unison. The longest palindromic word in the "[[Oxford English Dictionary]]" is the [[Onomatopoeia|onomatopoeic]] "tattarrattat", coined by [[James Joyce]] in "[[Ulysses (novel)|Ulysses]]" (1922) for a knock on the door. The "Guinness Book of Records" gives the title to "detartrated", the [[preterite]] and past participle of "detartrate", a chemical term meaning to remove [[tartrate]]s. [[Rotary tiller|Rotavator]], a trademarked name for an agricultural machine, is

neg: Countdown (game show) longest words that can be formed from the available letters, aided by the production team. Any word which appears in the Oxford Dictionary of English is valid, as well as accepted forms of them that may not be explicitly listed. Examples include: Words that are not allowed include: The contestant in control chooses six of 24 shuffled face-down number tiles, arranged into two groups: 20 "small numbers" (two each of 1 through 10), and four "large numbers" of 25, 50, 75 and 100. Some special episodes replace the large numbers with 12, 37, 62 and 87. The contestant decides how

neg: Dictionary-based machine translation Dictionary-based machine translation Machine translation can use a method based on dictionary entries, which means that the words will be translated as a dictionary does – word by word, usually without much correlation of meaning between them. Dictionary lookups may be done with or without morphological analysis or lemmatisation. While this approach to machine translation is probably the least sophisticated, dictionary-based machine translation is ideally suitable for the translation of long lists of phrases on the subsentential (i.e., not a full sentence) level, e.g. inventories or simple catalogs of products and services. It can also be used to expedite manual

neg: Headword Headword A headword, head word, lemma, or sometimes catchword, is the word under which a set of related dictionary or encyclopaedia entries appears. The headword is used to locate the entry, and dictates its alphabetical position. Depending on the size and nature of the dictionary or encyclopedia, the entry may include alternative meanings of the word, its etymology, pronunciation and inflections, compound words or phrases that contain the headword, and encyclopedic information about the concepts represented by the word. For example, the headword "bread" may contain the following (simplified) definitions: The "Academic Dictionary of Lithuanian" contains around 500,000 headwords. The

neg: Google Dictionary Google Dictionary Google Dictionary is an online dictionary service of Google that can be accessed by using the ""define"" operator and other similar phrases in Google Search. It is also available in Google Translate and in the form of an extension for Google Chrome.The dictionary content is licensed from Oxford University Press's OxfordDictionaries.com. It is available in different languages such as English, Spanish and French. The service also contains pronunciation audio, Google Translate, word origin chart, Ngram Viewer, and word games among other features for the English language version. Originally available as a standalone service it was integrated into Google

neg: Dictionary (software) such as "political," and "apolitical." The definition for "political" associates the word with a man, ""he's a political man"" and the example for "apolitical" associates the word with a woman, "not interested or involved in politics: "a former apolitical housewife"." This form of gender bias has been documented in many dictionaries. Dictionary (software) Dictionary is an application developed by Apple Inc. as a part of macOS. The application provides definitions and synonyms from various dictionaries, Wikipedia articles and a glossary of Apple-related terms. Dictionary was introduced in OS X 10.4 with the New Oxford American Dictionary and "Oxford American Writer's

neg: Touch Dictionary Entertainment Korea produced a similar game, "Hand Dictionary", for release for the PlayStation Portable. Comparing it with the "Touch Dic", IGN jokingly called Sony's version "Hand Dic". The original name of the game, "Touch Dic", fostered controversy after FailBlog posted the cover, noting the similarity of the word 'dic' to the word 'dick', slang for penis. Gaming blog Joystiq called the title "potentially offensive.". WatchMojo.com also placed it 3rd in "Top 10 Worst Video Game Titles". Touch Dictionary Touch Dictionary (, "Teochi Digsyeoneoli") (formerly known as "Touch Dic") is a dictionary software title for the Nintendo DS released in 2005

neg: Visual dictionary Kindersley. Visual dictionary A visual dictionary is a dictionary that primarily uses pictures to illustrate the meaning of words. Visual dictionaries are often organized by themes, instead of being an alphabetical list of words. For each theme, an image is labeled with the correct word to identify each component of the item in question. Visual dictionaries can be monolingual or multilingual, providing the names of items in several languages. An index of all defined words is usually included to assist finding the correct illustration that defines the word. Some international visual dictionary publishers include Oxford University Press, QA International and

neg: Visual dictionary Visual dictionary A visual dictionary is a dictionary that primarily uses pictures to illustrate the meaning of words. Visual dictionaries are often organized by themes, instead of being an alphabetical list of words. For each theme, an image is labeled with the correct word to identify each component of the item in question. Visual dictionaries can be monolingual or multilingual, providing the names of items in several languages. An index of all defined words is usually included to assist finding the correct illustration that defines the word. Some international visual dictionary publishers include Oxford University Press, QA International and Dorling

neg: With a Bang (Case Closed) location of the second bomb. Inspector Joseph Meguire reveals "major league" in the riddle means the riddle should be viewed from an English point of view, due to the fact the major league is not a Japanese term. When viewed in English, extra innings is abbreviated as "EXTRA' while a stopper refers to the earned run average, abbreviated as "ERA". When "ERA" is removed from "EXTRA", "XT" remains and when flipped around, as referred to in the riddle, becomes the kanji which is the symbol for school in the Japanese map. As for the hint, "EVIT" is the incomplete word

neg: Fort Boyard (game show) answer within the time limit, the key is "thrown" into the sea, and another contestant has to swim for it. This was always won as the strongest swimmer would retrieve the key. The swim was removed in series 5 of the UK version, but was re-introduced in "Ultimate Challenge" as Key to the Sea (without the "Watch Tower" riddle). Since 2006, the contestants can no longer swim for the key; it is just put back where it was held. The clue word is also different and is not the same as the riddle. Therefore, the riddle must be solved within

neg: The Riddle of Steel in the nations of "Zaporozhya" (from the Polish historical term for Ukraine) and the "Rzeczpospolita", the Polish word for "Commonwealth". For historical inspiration, see Zaporizhia, Rzeczpospolita and Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. "The Riddle of Steel" has suffered from distribution problems for years and there is a perception among fans that they are not likely to be solved. As of early 2013, there was some worry among the fan community of "The Riddle of Steel" that the RPG might perhaps no longer enjoy viable commercial release channels. That was one factor that contributed to the creation of its licensed successor game Blade of

neg: A Dictionary of the English Language all words which we use in the English tung...into one dictionary..." In 1598 an Italian–English dictionary by John Florio was published. It was the first English dictionary to use quotations ("illustrations") to give meaning to the word; in none of these dictionaries so far were there any actual definitions of words. This was to change, to a small extent, in schoolmaster Robert Cawdrey's "Table Alphabeticall", published in 1604. Though it contained only 2,449 words, and no word beginning with the letters "W", "X", or "Y", this was the first monolingual English dictionary. Several more dictionaries followed: in Latin, English, French

neg: Reverse dictionary starting with the first letter of the entry word and subsequent letters proceeding toward the end of that word. Applications of reverse word dictionaries include: Reverse word dictionaries are straightforward to construct, by simply sorting based on reversed words. This was labor-intensive and tedious before the advent of electronic computers, but is now straightforward. For example, using Perl and sort allows the following one-liner program to produce a reverse dictionary of the file "dict": Some sort utilities can sort on a reversed version of the sort key, making it easy to generate reverse dictionaries on the fly if the dictionary

neg: Japanese dictionary words. The first three homophonous "jiten" compounds of "ten" ( "reference work; dictionary; classic; canon; model") are Chinese loanwords. However, Chinese distinguishes their pronunciations, avoiding the potential ambiguities of Sino-Japanese "jiten": "cídiǎn" 辞典 "word dictionary", "zìdiǎn" 字典 "character dictionary", or "shìdiǎn" 事典 "encyclopedia". The usual Japanese word for "encyclopedia" is "hyakka jiten" (百科事典 "100/many subject dictionary", see Japanese encyclopedias). The "jiten", "jisho", and "jibiki" terms for dictionaries of "kanji" "Chinese characters" share the element "ji" ( "character; graph; letter; script; writing"). Lexicographical collation is straightforward for romanized languages, and most dictionaries enter words in alphabetical order. In contrast, the Japanese

neg: E-mahashabdkosh E-mahashabdkosh e-mahashabdkosh () is an online dictionary website which is hosted and mentioned by Department of Official Language, India. This website is intended for general public use. E-Mahashabdakosh is an online bilingual-bidirectional Hindi–English pronunciation dictionary. In this dictionary basic meaning, synonyms, word usage and usage of words in special domain are included. This dictionary has the facility of search of Hindi and English words. The purpose of this dictionary is to provide a complete, correct, compact meaning and definition of a word. During the year 2011–12, the work for the development of E-Mahashabdkosh for 12 work areas has been completed.

neg: Dictionary-based machine translation the study of the patterns of formation of sentences and phrases from words; c. the rules or patterns so studied; "Computers." the grammatical rules and structural patterns governing the ordered use of appropriate words and symbols for issuing commands, writing code, etc., in a particular software application or programming language. Dictionary-based machine translation Machine translation can use a method based on dictionary entries, which means that the words will be translated as a dictionary does – word by word, usually without much correlation of meaning between them. Dictionary lookups may be done with or without morphological analysis or lemmatisation. While

neg: Riddles (Persian) the descriptive riddle form were the innovative poet Mas‘ūd Sā‘d Salmān (d. 1121), who composed at least twelve riddles or riddle-like descriptions, his successors ‘Uthmān Mukhtārī (d. 1118×21) and Ḥakīm Sanā’ī (d. 1131×41), and Amīr Mu‘izzī (d. 1125), whose "divan" includes fourteen riddles. An example is the following riddle by Amīr Mu‘izzī, which involves a series of puns on the different meanings of the word "tir" ('rank, importance; Mercury, associated with scribes and scholars; arrow'): <poem style="margin-left:2em"> What is that body that has received "tir" [importance] from the "tir" of the sky [Mercury]? When it weeps, the soul will smile

neg: Reserve Bank of Australia The longest-serving governor, if his service to both the Commonwealth Bank and the Reserve Bank of Australia are included, is H.C. Coombs, who served nineteen years and six months combined. He is regarded by some as one of the most committed anti-inflationists in government throughout the 1950s and 1960s. The longest-serving Commonwealth Bank governor is Sir Ernest Riddle, who served eleven years and four months, while the longest-serving Reserve Bank governor is Ian Macfarlane, who served ten years. The shortest-serving governor by many years is James Kell, who served 2 years for the Commonwealth Bank. A number of buildings associated

neg: Noisy channel model decision function formula_18 is a function that, given a scrambled word, returns the intended word. Methods of constructing a decision function include the maximum likelihood rule, the maximum a posteriori rule, and the minimum distance rule. In some cases, it may be better to accept the scrambled word as the intended word rather than attempt to find an intended word in the dictionary. For example, the word "schönfinkeling" may not be in the dictionary, but might in fact be the intended word. Noisy channel model The noisy channel model is a framework used in spell checkers, question answering, speech recognition,

neg: Word-sense disambiguation words used together in text are related to each other and that the relation can be observed in the definitions of the words and their senses. Two (or more) words are disambiguated by finding the pair of dictionary senses with the greatest word overlap in their dictionary definitions. For example, when disambiguating the words in "pine cone", the definitions of the appropriate senses both include the words evergreen and tree (at least in one dictionary). A similar approach searches for the shortest path between two words: the second word is iteratively searched among the definitions of every semantic variant of

neg: Sniglet Each monthly episode features a regular segment on sniglets, which Hall described as "any word that doesn't appear in the dictionary, but should". In 1984, a collection of sniglets was published by Hall, titled "Sniglets (snig' lit: any word that doesn't appear in the dictionary, but should)". This was followed by a "daily comic panel" in newspapers, four more books, a game, and a calendar. Many sniglets are portmanteau words, a comedic style often traced to Lewis Carroll. The Hall books have their entries arranged in alphabetical order like a dictionary, with information on how to pronounce the word, followed

neg: Multimodal learning let formula_23 be the dictionary size, and formula_24 be the number of words in the document. Let formula_25 be a formula_26 binary matrix with formula_27 only when the formula_28 word in the document is the formula_29 word in the dictionary. formula_30 denotes the count for the formula_29 word in the dictionary. The energy of the state formula_32 for a document contains formula_24 words is defined as The conditional distributions are given by A deep Boltzmann machine has a sequence of layers of hidden units.There are only connections between adjacent hidden layers, as well as between visible units and hidden units

neg: It's Pat answer is that the word is in the dictionary. Kyle then begins to type in every single word in the dictionary. Meanwhile, a gang of thugs intent on discovering Pat's gender begin harassing Pat, and Pat becomes distraught over the thugs' androgynous nature. Pat goes to complain to Kathy, a friend who is a therapist and host of a radio talk show. When Pat gives acerbic reactions to call-in listeners, the station fires Kathy and replaces her with Pat. Kyle ends up going through the entire dictionary until he reaches the last word, "zythum" (an Egyptian malt beer), which is

neg: Sack (wine) have resembled cheaper versions of medium Oloroso sherry. Today, sack is sometimes seen included in the name of some sherries, perhaps most commonly as the Williams & Humbert brand "Dry Sack". The "Collins English Dictionary", the "Chambers Dictionary", and the "Oxford English Dictionary" all derive the word "sack" from the French "sec", "dry". However, the OED cannot explain the change in the vowel, and it has been suggested by others that the term is actually from the Spanish word "sacar", meaning "to draw out", as in drawing out wine from a solera, which led to "sacas". The word "sack" is

neg: Poglavnik Poglavnik Poglavnik () was the title used by Ante Pavelić, leader of World War II Croatian movement Ustaše and of the Independent State of Croatia between 1941 and 1945. The word was first recorded in a 16th-century dictionary compiled by Fausto Veranzio as a Croatian term for the Latin word princeps. According to the "Dictionary of the Croatian Language" compiled by Vladimir Anić and the "Croatian Encyclopedic Dictionary" the word comes from the adjective form "poglavit", which can be loosely translated as "first and foremost" or "respectable, noble, honorable". The adjective is in turn a compound of the Croatian prefix

neg: Oxford English Dictionary senses. As entries began to be revised for the "OED3" in sequence starting from M, the longest entry became "make" in 2000, then "put" in 2007, then "run" in 2011. Despite its considerable size, the "OED" is neither the world's largest nor the earliest exhaustive dictionary of a language. Another earlier large dictionary is the Grimm brothers' dictionary of the German language, begun in 1838 and completed in 1961. The first edition of the "Vocabolario degli Accademici della Crusca" is the first great dictionary devoted to a modern European language (Italian) and was published in 1612; the first edition of

neg: Penguin the great auk of the Northern Hemisphere, and named them after this bird, although they are not closely related. The etymology of the word "penguin" is still debated. The English word is not apparently of French, Breton or Spanish origin (the latter two are attributed to the French word "pingouin" "auk"), but first appears in English or Dutch. Some dictionaries suggest a derivation from Welsh "pen", "head" and "gwyn", "white", including the Oxford English Dictionary, the American Heritage Dictionary, the Century Dictionary and Merriam-Webster, on the basis that the name was originally applied to the great auk, either because it

neg: Archi language consonant inventories, with the recently extinct Ubykh of the Northwest Caucasian languages having a few more. The table below shows all consonants that can be found in the Archi Language Tutorial and the Archi Dictionary. Of the consonants listed above, the ones in orange have no word-initial dictionary entries (even though , , and are relatively common), the one in green does not appear in the Tutorial but does have a word-internal dictionary entry (in , 'alpine pasture used in summer'), and the ones in blue appear in the Tutorial but have no dictionary entries. Some of these sounds are

neg: Levenshtein automaton is identified as being misspelled, its Levenshtein automaton may be constructed, and then applied to all of the words in the dictionary to determine which ones are close to the misspelled word. If the dictionary is stored in compressed form as a trie, the time for this algorithm (after the automaton has been constructed) is proportional to the number of nodes in the trie, significantly faster than using dynamic programming to compute the Levenshtein distance separately for each dictionary word. It is also possible to find words in a regular language, rather than a finite dictionary, that are close to

neg: -gry puzzle or using computer tools such as grep, which requires an electronic word list. At the origin of the gry puzzle, the standard reverse dictionary in modern English was the "Air Force Reverse Dictionary" (formally the "Normal and Reverse Word List", compiled under the direction of A. F. Brown), which did not have additional answers for gry. The most plausible answer at the time was "meagry", found in the "Oxford English Dictionary". A more elaborate strategy is to list words that have endings similar to gry, such as "-gary", and then search a larger dictionary for obsolete variants ending in "-gry",

neg: Google Dictionary the service that showed definitions, translations, and example usages of the word in a sentence. In February 2017, online news website Daily Caller accused Google of changing the definition of the word "fascism" in Google Dictionary. It was later found out that the definition was exactly from Oxford with no Google modifications. Google eventually removed ""fascism"" and related entries like ""alt right"" from the Dictionary. It has since added feedback options for the dictionary which includes reporting options for "wrong" and "offensive" definitions. It also does not display definitions for proper nouns provided by Oxford Dictionaries, though Bing which also

neg: Longest word in French letter "s" to the end. The adjective "interdépartemental" (18 letters), which also appears in the list, can be pluralised by appending the letters "es". Longest word in French This article lists some of the longest words in the French language. The longest word listed below, "hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobie" (36 letters) is the fear (or phobia) of long words. The word is formed from the Latin word "sesquipedalia" (singular "sesquipedalis"), which the Ancient Roman poet Horace used in "Ars Poetica" to describe excessively long words; literally, it means "a foot-and-a-half long". The length of the word "hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobie" is embellished with the prefix "hippopotomonstro"

neg: Longest word in French Longest word in French This article lists some of the longest words in the French language. The longest word listed below, "hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobie" (36 letters) is the fear (or phobia) of long words. The word is formed from the Latin word "sesquipedalia" (singular "sesquipedalis"), which the Ancient Roman poet Horace used in "Ars Poetica" to describe excessively long words; literally, it means "a foot-and-a-half long". The length of the word "hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobie" is embellished with the prefix "hippopotomonstro" ("monster hippopotamus"), which is a characterisation of the feared words. Like the other phobias in the list, "hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobie" can be pluralised by adding the

neg: Anagram dictionary kind of letter. Thus words will only appear when other words can be made from the same letters. Anagram dictionaries were formerly produced by hand, but can now be trivially generated from any machine-readable word list by computer, for example, by the Internet Anagram Server and this Scrabble Word Finder, by sorting words in order of their sorted letter-strings. Anagram dictionary In the main type of anagram dictionary, the letters in words or phrases are rearranged in alphabetical order, and these transpositions are themselves then ordered alphabetically within word-length groups, so that any words consisting of this group of letters

neg: Ahwatukee, Phoenix the name is a Crow term for "land on the other side of the hill", based on the Crow word "awe chuuke". The Crow language dictionary maintained by the Crow Language Consortium lends credence to this theory, as the dictionary claims the word "awé" means "ground", "land", or "earth", and the word "chúuke" means "over the ridge", "over the hill", or "the next valley over". At least one book claims the name closely resembles a Crow term for "flat land" or "prairie". The Crow language dictionary maintained by the Crow Language Consortium also lends credence to this theory, as the

neg: Kapingamarangi language of Micronesia. Words from the English vocabulary were borrowed and transfigured into the Kapingamarangi lexicon. Words derived from English: From Leiber and Dikepa, 1974 gada duu Kapingamarangi has access to many different materials. One of the materials that the Kapingamarangi language has access to is an online talking dictionary. It is a dictionary where one can enter a word in English and it will automatically translate it to Kapingamarangi. Many words in this dictionary also have a vocal response on how to pronounce the word, which is why it is called a talking dictionary. This is a resource because it

neg: Cupertino effect of Microsoft Word come configured to "auto-correct" misspelled words silently as the user types. Smartphones with dictionary-supported virtual keyboards automatically replace possible mistakes with dictionary words. Cupertino effect The Cupertino effect occurs when a spell checker erroneously replaces correctly spelled words which are not in its dictionary. This term refers to the unhyphenated English word "cooperation" often being changed to "Cupertino" by older spell checkers with dictionaries containing only the hyphenated variant, "co-operation". Cupertino is a town in California, often used as a metonym for Apple Inc. "Cupertino" has been in the dictionaries used by Microsoft Word since at least

neg: Word of the year words that became Merriam-Webster's Word of the Year since 2003: Oxford University Press, which publishes the "Oxford English Dictionary" and many other dictionaries, announces an Oxford Dictionaries UK Word of the Year and an Oxford Dictionaries US Word of the Year; sometimes these are the same word. The Word of the Year need not have been coined within the past twelve months but it does need to have become prominent or notable during that time. There is no guarantee that the Word of the Year will be included in any Oxford dictionary. The Oxford Dictionaries Words of the Year are

neg: Concise Dictionary of Spoken Chinese bewilderment for the foreign student of Chinese" (Luo 1947: 434). The "Concise Dictionary" has "many elaborate features to help the user study the refinements of spoken Chinese" (Dunn 1977: 78). Chao's introduction lists eight unique features not found in previous comparable Chinese-English dictionaries such as Fenn's and Mathews' (1947: v-vi). (1) The grammatical function of each word is distinguished according to whether it is free (F) or bound (B). With the exception of measure words or Chinese classifiers, called "auxiliary nouns" (AN), the dictionary generally did not indicate syntactic part of speech, called "word classes". Chao explains, "The same word,

neg: Idiom dictionary Idiom dictionary An idiom dictionary is a dictionary or phrase book that lists and explains idioms – distinctive words or phrases having a figurative meaning that goes beyond the original semantics of the word(s). For example, the phrase "keep your breath to cool your porridge" is more likely to be a rebuke to mind your own business than literal advice at breakfast. An idiom is a phrase whose meaning could not be readily deduced from the meaning of its individual words. The word comes from the Greek "ἰδίωμα" (idioma) – the distinctive style of a particular person. The traditional example

neg: Collins English Dictionary Collins Bank of English Corpus, word frequencies and trends from the Google Ngrams project, and word images from Flickr. In August 2012, CollinsDictionary.com introduced Facebook-linked crowd-sourcing for neologisms, whilst still maintaining overall editorial control to remain distinct from Wiktionary and Urban Dictionary. This followed an earlier launch of a discussion forum for neologisms in 2004. In May 2015, CollinsDictionary.com added 6500 new Scrabble words to their Collins Official Scrabble Wordlist. The words are based on terms related to and influenced by slang, social media, food, technology, and more. Collins English Dictionary The Collins English Dictionary is a printed and online