How To Use Dictionary definition In A Sentence
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She is the dictionary definition of pure evil.
The Sun
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A liberal to me is one who - and it suits some of the dictionary definitions - is unbeholden to any specific belief or party or group or person, but makes up his or her mind on the basis of the facts.
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Read the dictionary definition carefully.
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Why am I starting a news program with a dictionary definition?
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It's the dictionary definition of backwards.
Times, Sunday Times
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Indeed, this makes argument about the relative merits of security and liberty impossible; we are reduced to quibbling about dictionary definitions.
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No, it's not exactly the dictionary definition of the word.
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Now, the dictionary definition of awakener as someone who awakens.
Printing: Awakener; My Occupation. And yours?
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joe, your thefreedictionary definition is, put simply, incorrect. the word bollock, regardless of how it is spelt, refers to themale genetalia, specifically the testes.
Got a call last night from Bill Thompson
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Dictionary definition of respite: a short period of rest or relief from something difficult or unpleasant.
Times, Sunday Times
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Mr Lightman said: It is seriously misleading that Ofsted continues to interpret the term satisfactory as the opposite of its dictionary definition.
Evening Standard - Home
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He is not a child who, knowing the dictionary definition, would react calmy or unemotionally.
Controversy
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THE dictionary definition of misogyny is the ingrained prejudice against women.
The Sun
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You'll either be enthralled or bored to tears, but you'll know exactly what a "homunculus" is, and in context, not just from a dry, dusty dictionary definition.
Paglia's purple piffle.
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Well, actually, my concept of the occupation of awakener is one in which we do the work that produces the dictionary definition -- people who wake up.
Printing: Awakener; My Occupation. And yours?
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Dictionary definitions tend to show stereotypical patterns of usage.
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And this is fortunate, because like most speakers, I find some dictionary definitions remote from my own usage.
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In particular, dictionary definitions and co-occurrence statistics have been identified as valuable sources of semantic information.
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Google claims "about 10,700" instances of the word "intoleration" — on Google's first page of "intoleration" results, the instances include several dictionary definitions of the word.
On tolerating
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If one investigates the format commonly used in dictionary definitions it is clear that there are some conventions that are followed.
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It's a shame the dictionary definition 's so derogatory.
The Sun
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And don't be fooled by the dictionary definition that "oligopoly" does not control the market.
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I don't necessarily know how or why, but somewhere along the line the competitive dance scene think the little girls from Lifetime's Dance Moms and their high school counterparts hijacked the word "contemporary" from its simple dictionary definition.
Nora Younkin: What So You Think You Can Dance Has Done to the Word 'Contemporary'
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She had no idea this entailed irony of any kind. She had no idea what the word "irony" meant, until I used it in her essay and sent her a link to a dictionary definition.
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I take the dictionary definition versus the definition you find in various consortiums.
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I take the dictionary definition versus the definition you find in various consortiums.
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Rather, we use the term according to its dictionary definition, meaning the foundational set of precepts on which a belief system is based.
David Brock and Paul Waldman: Excerpt from Free Ride: John McCain and the Media
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It's a shame the dictionary definition's so derogatory.
The Sun
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Urban Dictionary definition of "frigging" happened to me today, except it was a work colleague and not Mum.
GrodsCorp
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I try to limit pop-culture references and colloquial clues to a handful within each puzzle and in general each clue is some form of a dictionary definition.
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We've already showed you how easy searching Google's dictionary is: just type, for example, define erinaceous to get a straight-out-of-the-dictionary definition for "erinacious".
Gizmodo
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Now, I would suggest to you that you re-read the dictionary definition of a "deist", and then tell me that you, if you can, as a thinking person, tell me that the description of the incident in Washington's letter even remotely resembles any "indifference" on the part of God.
Texas Faith: How did our civil debate become so uncivil? | RELIGION Blog | dallasnews.com
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Here are some common dictionary definitions of "cackle," none of which are appropriate in the context of Palin's tweet: cack·le (kkl) v. intr.
Sarah Palin's 'Cackle' Stretches Boundaries Of English Language
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The nonsense syllables of the parent have no dictionary definitions.
Christianity Today
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She is the dictionary definition of pure evil.
The Sun
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The nonsense syllables of the parent have no dictionary definitions.
Christianity Today
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However, for the record, let us look at the dictionary definition of the word ‘marriage’.
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The nonsense syllables of the parent have no dictionary definitions.
Christianity Today
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You click on the word "lugubrious" and it gives you a dictionary definition, or the word "Taj Mahal" and it shows you a jpg picture.
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Later, he dispensed with objects and photographs and concentrated on language itself, enlarging words and their dictionary definitions in black-and-white photostats.
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The dictionary definition of "quisling" is a traitor.
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The overall seaminess of that enterprise is so underreported that just last week, one of the Post's own reporters felt like they had to obtain a quote in order to get the dictionary definition of "lobbyist" into their story.
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The dictionary definition of arrogance suggests overbearing behavior based on inappropriate views.
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But whatever the answers, none of the above-mentioned definitions are the same as the dictionary definition; so the next obvious question is, where do these meanings come from?
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By my dictionary definition, to stupefy means to "overwhelm with amazement, astound, astonish"; "to stun, as with strong emotions, to benumb the faculties of as in 'put in to a stupor'.
Karen Kisslinger: Ba(ra)ck to the Word "Stupid"
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It's a shame the dictionary definition's so derogatory.
The Sun
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She is the dictionary definition of pure evil.
The Sun
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But, once again, the standard of whether the pain and suffering produced by waterboarding (or the emotional distress produced by your husband shaving your shih-tzu) are “severe” is only defined by the jury or judge making a judgement call about whether the pain and suffering (or emotional distress, or unwanted sexual behavior) meet the dictionary definition of severe.
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Dictionary definition of respite: a short period of rest or relief from something difficult or unpleasant.
Times, Sunday Times
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Hence the expansion of dictionary definitions descends into progressive generality, displaying a weaker and weaker semantic relationship with the original word.
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His face was a smooth tan color, and he was definitely the dictionary definition of ‘tall, dark, and handsome’.
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According to dictionary definitions and everyday usage, a fountain is a jet of water that spurts up into the air.
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Then on top of that dictionary definition, the word 'gunsel' suggested 'Hansel' to me, and the old folk tale mated with the definition and started spawning horrors.
MIND MELD: Taboo Topics in SF/F Literature
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The dictionary definition of the word is to ride on or along a wave on a board.