Sentence examples for compiling a dictionary from inspiring English sources
Did you know that someone's compiling a dictionary of my phrases?" This is true.
About fifteen years ago, she started recording her tribe's creation myths and compiling a dictionary of its unwritten language.
She has devoted her life to bringing her tribe's language back to life and is compiling a dictionary and grammar book.
Carl Burnett, a member of the U.S. Disabled Ski Team who also happens to be a freelance lexicographer compiling a dictionary of skiing terms, says he believes that the verb podium stems from a peculiar usage of the noun to mean not the medals podium itself but rather "a place on the podium".
It is like compiling a dictionary between one language and another that you cannot actually read.
In the early 1900s, French Canadian Jesuit priest Julius Jetté spent 27 years living among the Koyukon and compiling a dictionary of their language.
He compiled a Dictionary of the Works of Dostoyevsky in 1921 to better integrate Dostoyevsky's ideas with his own.
Last year, after seeing a book in a museum shop on ancient Egypt, he compiled a dictionary of heiro-glyphics.
The New Yorker, October 26, 1940 P. 13 The Department of Labor set out to compile a Dictionary of Occupational Titles.
They then compile a dictionary of new words related to recent events and develop their own neologisms.
He conceived a strong dislike of accepted ideas (idées reçues), of which he was to compile a "dictionary" for his amusement.
