My array of books above my desk contains the usual dictionaries and references, of which the most thumbed seems to be Chambers Crossword Directory.
Similarly usual dictionary-based approaches are relatively ineffective.
It is not a dictionary in the usual sense; rather it is a hodge-podge encyclopedia of intellectual curiosities, serious argument on a variety of topics, salacious stories, exacting textual scholarship, and much more that drew a readership hardly less diverse than its contents.
WASHINGTON — In a decision last week in a patent case, Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. puzzled out the meaning of a federal law by consulting the usual legal materials — and five dictionaries.
The Kindle has the usual list of e-book perks: dictionary, text search, bookmarks, clippings, MP3 music playback and six type sizes (baby boomers, arise).
Here you'll find the usual definitions you'd get in a paper dictionary, including a guide to pronunciation, word origin description, various meanings and related word forms.
The Oxford English Dictionary defines early as 'before the due or usual time' and late as 'after the due or usual time' or 'after the proper time'.
If so it's because they just announced the first instance of a dictionary allowing input not only from the usual suspects – staff lexicographers – but from the public, or to use the pertinent language: the crowd.
The usual comparisons - with Pauline Kael, say - sell Thomson short; this dictionary is Borgesian, Calvinoesque.
According to the Merriam-Webster dictionary, poverty is "the state of one who lacks a usual or socially acceptable amount of money or material possessions".
