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Which of these words can be found in a standard dictionary?
Almost perversely, Urban Dictionary avoids most of the standard dictionary apparatus.
It is one word in our standard dictionary, Webster's New World College, Fourth Edition.
The standard Dictionary of Applied Physics of the English physicist Sir Richard Glazebrook was first issued 1922 23.
One of its first tasks was the production of a standard dictionary, a massive work published in four volumes in 1694.
New text materials were published in 1953, closely followed by both grammatical and vocabulary studies as well as a standard dictionary of the language (1959).
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His dictionary, sadly only published weeks before his death, glistens with idioms that passed under the radar of the standard dictionaries: What ho! she bumps!
Definitions are listed numerically, though the order does not imply preference, as in standard dictionaries, but rather the chronological record of their appearance in speech and literature.
"Verlan serves as an interface between these different groups who do not have a common language," said Alain Rey, one of the editors of the Petit Robert dictionary, the first of the standard dictionaries to incorporate a number of Verlan terms.
Similarly, many entries are extended with pictures or even videos, a perfectly obvious notion for any online project, but one that is still unusual for scholarly and even for standard dictionaries.
(One of the heroes of his youth was the pianist Leon Fleisher, whose visage illustrates the word "intense" in standard dictionaries and whose right hand went on strike for 30 years).
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