English-Thai Dictionary

dictionary

N พจนานุกรม  ปทานุกรม  นามานุกรม  ประมวล คำศัพท์  อภิธาน คำศัพท์  glossary wordbook vocabulary pod-ja-na-nu-kom

 

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

DICTIONARY

n.[L., a word, or a speaking. ] A book containing the words of a language arranged in alphabetical order, with explanations of their meanings; a lexicon.

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

DICTIONARY

Dic "tion *a *ry, n.; pl. Dictionaries. Etym: [Cf. F. dictionnaire. See Diction. ]

 

1. A book containing the words of a language, arranged alphabetically, with explanations of their meanings; a lexicon; a vocabulary; a wordbook. I applied myself to the perusal of our writers; and noting whatever might be of use to ascertain or illustrate any word or phrase, accumulated in time the materials of a dictionary. Johnson.

 

2. Hence, a book containing the words belonging to any system or province of knowledge, arranged alphabetically; as, a dictionary of medicine or of botany; a biographical dictionary.

 

New American Oxford Dictionary

dictionary

dic tion ar y |ˈdikSHəˌnerē ˈdɪkʃəˌnɛri |(abbr.: dict. ) ▶noun ( pl. dictionaries ) a book that lists the words of a language in alphabetical order and gives their meaning, or that gives the equivalent words in a different language. • a reference book on any subject, the items of which are arranged in alphabetical order: a dictionary of quotations. PHRASES have swallowed a dictionary informal (of a person ) use long and obscure words when speaking. ORIGIN early 16th cent.: from medieval Latin dictionarium (manuale ) or dictionarius (liber )‘manual or book of words, ’ from Latin dictio (see diction ).

 

dictionary attack

dic tion ar y at tack ▶noun an attempted illegal entry to a computer system that uses a dictionary headword list to generate possible passwords.

 

Oxford Dictionary

dictionary

dic |tion ¦ary |ˈdɪkʃ (ə )n (ə )ri | ▶noun ( pl. dictionaries ) a book that lists the words of a language in alphabetical order and gives their meaning, or that gives the equivalent words in a different language. • a reference book on any subject, the items of which are arranged in alphabetical order: a dictionary of quotations. PHRASES have swallowed a dictionary informal use long and obscure words when speaking. ORIGIN early 16th cent.: from medieval Latin dictionarium (manuale ) or dictionarius (liber )‘manual or book of words ’, from Latin dictio (see diction ).

 

dictionary attack

dictionary attack ▶noun an attempt to gain illicit access to a computer system by using a very large set of words to generate potential passwords.

 

American Oxford Thesaurus

dictionary

dictionary noun if they don't understand what a word means, then they can look it up in the dictionary: lexicon, wordbook, word list, glossary; thesaurus. WORD LINKS lexicography the practice of writing dictionaries Word Links sections supply words that are related to the headword but do not normally appear in a thesaurus because they are not actual synonyms.

 

Oxford Thesaurus

dictionary

dictionary noun half of the words in his text were not in the dictionary: lexicon, wordbook, glossary, vocabulary list, vocabulary, word list, wordfinder. WORD LINKS dictionary lexicographic relating to dictionaries lexicography writing of dictionaries lexicographer writer of dictionaries Word Links sections supply words that are related to the headword but do not normally appear in a thesaurus because they are not actual synonyms.

 

Sanseido Wisdom Dictionary

dictionary

dic tion ar y /dɪ́kʃənèri |-ʃ (ə )n (ə )ri /〖diction (単語に関する )ary (もの )〗名詞 複 -ies /-z /C 1 辞書 , 辞典, 字引 ▸ look up new words in the dictionary 辞書で知らない単語を引く (╳look up the dictionary for new wordsとしない )▸ use [check, ｟よりかたく ｠consult ] a dictionary ≒ see [look at ] a dictionary 辞書を引く ▸ an English-Japanese [a Japanese-English ] dictionary 英和 [和英 ]辞典 ▸ Our teacher is, as it were, a walking [living ] dictionary .私たちの先生はいわば生き字引きだ 2 事典 , 特殊辞典 ▸ a biographical [medical ] dictionary 人名 [医学 ]辞典 ▸ a dictionary of music 音楽辞典 3 〘コンピュ 〙(スペルチェックなどで使われる )辞書 .