Sentences with phrase «as a dictionary of»

The Wolfram Lawyer's Professional Assistant provides basic reference information — such as a dictionary of legal terms and the statutes of limitations for every U.S. state — as well as a variety of computational tools.

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New York's Moxy Times Square hotel is including condoms with a Union Jack logo as part of an overnight stay that also features a travel - sized bottle of gin and a British slang dictionary.

By the 18th century, taco had migrated to Spain, where dictionaries listed its possible meanings as a ramrod, a billiard cue, a carpenter's hammer, or a gulp of wine.

You might as well have been doing quantitative methods in terms of just the way they were [talking], the terminology that was being used... I had to ask for like a dictionary or like a glossary of terms that they had.

Instead, the Word of the Year is chosen because, in the opinion of Oxford Dictionaries» lexicographers and consultants, it is «judged to reflect the ethos, mood, or preoccupations of that particular year and to have lasting potential as a word of cultural significance.»

Look up «hustle» in the dictionary and you'll see the word commonly means to sell something by force and / or coercion, and / or to maintain a flutter of activity, as in «the hustle and bustle of the daily grind.»

But even if the Word of the Year quickly fades into obscurity — actually, particularly if it does — the fact that it was selected in the first place captures a distinct moment in our culture as reflected through a group of lexicographers and dictionary consultants.

But the purpose of a historical dictionary such as the OED is to give such questions the solemnity they deserve.

If you're the Merriam - Webster dictionary you define success as «the fact of getting or achieving wealth, respect, or fame.»

The Merriam - Webster dictionary defines the word «haven» as «a place where you are protected from danger, trouble, etc.» Referencing junk bonds as a place where investors «are protected from danger» is the epitome of theatrical absurdity.

But it wasn't until 2017 that Oxford Dictionaries shortlisted it as one of their «Words of the Year.»

According to the dictionary, a recession is defined as, «a period of temporary economic decline during which trade and industrial activity are reduced, generally identified by a fall in the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) for two successive quarters.»

In voting, the meaning of «Abstain» is defined by the Oxford English dictionary as:

The online Oxford dictionary defines guerilla as: «A member of a small, independent group taking part in irregular fighting, typically against larger, regular forces.»

If you're aren't completely sure, according to the English dictionary, a cryptocurrency is a form of digital currency, which can be used as actual funds.

Altruism for her is not «the practice of unselfish concern for or devotion to the welfare of others,» as given in most dictionaries, but the sacrifice of a higher value for a lower (for instance, helping a stranger instead of a family member).

Study Judaism, what websters dictionary states a Jew to be as oppose to a Jewish individual, with nothing against none of the Lords children.

We have to be careful when using words such as Assassination that in the dictionary is translated as» the murder of a political important perosn».

As recommended earlier, a dictionary is useful for gaining a better understanding of what words mean.

Oh, some of the concern trolling in here was priceless... and really needs to exist as a linked footnote to any dictionaries that give the definition of concern trolling.

Most 12 year olds are not so stupid as thefinisher... most 12 year olds know how to use a dictionary and don't cry foul when confronted with the actual definitions of words.

The Merriam Webster dictionary defines the term as «1: a holy war waged on behalf of Islam as a religious duty; also: a personal struggle in devotion to Islam especially involving spiritual discipline» and «2: a crusade for a principle or belief.»

Various dictionaries are very useful, such as The Concise Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church, ed.

A new model of the Church as processive and organismic would be difficult to define with dictionary precision.

Dictionaries are written as descriptive uses of language (they find out what the majority of people use words to mean, and write it down), rather than prescriptive uses of language (ie some governing board or king or ruler deciding what a word means and telling us how we have to use it).

We met in his office not far from the burial place of Bishop Frederick Baraga, a 19th - century missionary to the Ojibwa known as the «snowshoe priest» — a beloved figure among Indian people and the creator of the first Ojibwa dictionary.

Among the dictionary definitions of the prefix «trans» is: «through and through; so as to change completely» (WNCD 402).

The only alternative to these two is the explicit redefining of words as we go — in effect, making up our own language and providing a dictionary as we proceed.

Indeed he quotes Webster's dictionary; and names it as the «secret source» of the entire abortion controversy.

What is their deduction of metaphysical attributes but a shuffling and matching of pedantic dictionary - adjectives, aloof from morals, aloof from human needs, something that might be worked out from the mere word «God» by one of those logical machines of wood and brass which recent ingenuity has contrived as well as by a man of flesh and blood.

Is «stasis,» which my dictionary defines as «a stoppage of the flow of some fluid in the body,» something to be considered «entirely good»?

The Oxford English Dictionary is often known as one of the most precise dictionaries, so much so that words often have to be used for about ten years before they...

The Oxford English Dictionary is often known as one of the most precise dictionaries, so much so that words often have to be used for about ten years before they actually make it to the dictionaries.

(Just as it seems you are proud of your religion illiteracy and (oh big word hun, pull out your dictionary or google page) ineffectual way of communication.

A month later Oxford Dictionaries named «post-truth» as its international word of the year.

My dictionary defines a crank as an «ill - tempered, grouchy person,» as an «eccentric person who is overzealous in his advocacy of a private cause.»

This new dictionary then goes on to give entries for all the unnamed women mentioned in the Bible, all those who are «daughter of...» or «wife of...» or are described as «the woman at the well» or «the woman with a flow of blood» or «the women present at the feeding of the five thousand men».

My dictionary gives as the first meaning: «a people, usually the inhabitants of a specific territory, who share common customs, origins, history, and frequently language or related languages.»

Mormonism, Catholicism, the various branches of Protestantism, Islam, Hinduism, etc, etc.... If you define cult as it's defined in the dictionary, they all fit the bill.

Where YOU lie, is how you insist that I'm «misrepresenting evolution», and YET, at the end of the day... evolution STILL can't explain «something from nothing»... and if you insist on relying on evolution as the thesis for the existence of life... my dictionary analogy very much applies.

He is the souce of morality, but he doesn't «conform to» a moral system (as the online dictionary presents as one of the defs of morality).

Some of my sermon manuscripts on Ephesians might help clarify the book as a whole, but most of the main ideas can also be found in various entries in my Gospel dictionary.

Such dictionaries as those of Walter Bauer and Gerhard Kittel provide indispensable help.

A Dictionary of Biblical Tradition in English Literature edited by David Lyle Jeffrey Eerdmans, 960 pages, $ 80 A mammoth new reference work, certain to be a standard and invaluable resource, this «dictionary» contains hundreds of articles on biblical figures, motifs, concepts, quotations, and allusions» both in their scriptural context and as they have been used and understood by English - speaking writers and scholars since the Middle Ages.

My first taste of it came during a high school Japanese lesson and have always thought of it as like an omlet; my Japanese - English dictionary describes it as a pancake.

In fact, according to the Oxford dictionary, hangry is a blend of hungry and angry used colloquially to mean «bad - tempered or irritable as a result of hunger.»

It was listed as Ug (with one G) in the first edition of the Macquarie dictionary.

I'd say Coconut Mama gave us a «recipe», as the definition found in the dictionary seems to describe what has been presented... a list of ingredients and how to combine them.

The dictionary I consulted define delusion as an idiosyncratic belief of position maintained despite being contradicted by reality.

If we are offering Sanchez anything less than 350k, we not serious, if we give Ozil more than 200k, we are mad and if we meet the Ox demands, Arsenal is the name that would be put in dictionaries as definition of IDIOTS.