Their scholarly, unbiased approach is once again evident in the modern set, which combines about 250,000 brief dictionary-like entries with lengthier articles accompanied by extensive bibliographies.
Table 1 outlines a brief description of each dictionary.
He was included in The Scientists directory of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Who's Who of the Asian Pacific Rim, The Brief Biographies of Chinese Contemporary Education Celebrities, Dictionary of Contemporary Chinese Scientists and Inventors, Who's Who of the International Biographical Centre of Cambridge, Who's Who of the American Biographical Centre.
In brief, lyrical chapters, arch dictionary excerpts, desperate emails and Radio Globo news bulletins, Novey explores the ways in which the act of translation exceeds the boundaries of text to become a necessary interpretive tool for the messiness of modern life.
The comparatively brief entries in the encyclopaedic dictionary had, by accident of the alphabet, fragmented knowledge to such an extent that users received only a disjointed knowledge of the things in which they were interested.
In brief, we first assembled a dictionary of 1209 motifs representing the empirically-determined recognition sites of DNA-binding proteins (e.g., by chip-chip, chip-RNAseq, or protein binding microarray).
The brief even quotes the Black Law Dictionary definition of "such" as "those...having just been mentioned".
The entry on Bax in the Grove Dictionary of Music is surprisingly brief, and he doesn't get so much as a paragraph in the Rough Guide to Classical Music, which includes profiles of such obscure composers as Antoine Brumel and Barbara Strozzi.
It concludes with a brief section on some of the major dictionaries that are available.
In its brief life, this was probably the best two-volume dictionary of English.
