How To Use Oxford english dictionary In A Sentence
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That all changed with The Surgeon of Crowthorne, the gently rambling tale of the writing of the Oxford English Dictionary's first edition.
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Oxford English Dictionary Adds New Words - Today, the alphabetical range rean-recyclist was added to the New Edition: every word in this range has been thoroughly revised and updated.
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(Survey report 6801 summarizing Adm. 68/195, 156v, and other data in Adm. 68/194 and/196, found in the microfilms of the Virginia Colonial Records Project, Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia; A letter of Carter's executors to Dawkins 1738 May 10 refers to "your ship Bailey.") [3] According to the Oxford English Dictionary, a "rodomontade" is "a vainglorious brag or boast; an extravagantly boastful or arrogant saying or speech.
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Occasionally, the term faction is used as a synonym for political party, but" with opprobrious sense, conveying the imputation of selfish or mischievous ends or turbulent or unscrupulous methods ", according to the Oxford English Dictionary.
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And even if it is, sentential most important is well-attested in the Oxford English Dictionary and on the Internet:
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The word "zine" is a shortened form of the term fanzine, according to the Oxford English Dictionary.
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The word“cent,” ultimately from the Latin centum, was used in English to mean “hundred” before the year1400, according to the Oxford English Dictionary.
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Once we have secured exclusive rights to the word, the Minister for Education should seek an audience with the lexicographers at the Oxford English Dictionary with a view to getting the word entered into the dictionary.
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Angus Stevenson Editor, Concise Oxford English Dictionary "The expression 'woot' began in America but was picked up very quickly by people in Britain, as a result of the internet breaking down international boundaries," said Mr Stevenson.
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And even if it is, sentential most important is well-attested in the Oxford English Dictionary and on the Internet:
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Update: A commenter quotes one of the definitions for ballast from the Oxford English Dictionary as: 3.
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We have, and it is a practice, not a garment, called skinny dipping, from dipping one’s naked skin in the water, a locution cited in the Oxford English Dictionary in 1966.
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[15.1] According to the Oxford English Dictionary, "allum" is an obsolete form of "Alum.
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The word is a hybrid of the Chinese term "taikong" (space) and the Greek "naut" (traveler), or astronaut, according to the Concise Oxford English Dictionary.
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The Oxford English Dictionary takes the demure view that funky meant "moldy," although it notes that "funk" has often been used to mean tobacco smoke and may derive from the Latin fumar, to smoke.
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The Oxford English Dictionary does include "sovran" and derivatives, but cites no use of them any more recently than 1887, and says that these spellings are now "chiefly poetic.
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The editors of the Oxford English Dictionary etymologized, with evident dubiety, to the effect that aubergine is the diminutive of French auberge.
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Brooks says there's an "inchoate longing for change," and the Oxford English Dictionary tells us that "inchoate" means "just begun and so not fully formed or developed; rudimentary.
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Although lesser dictionaries give it the abbreviated meaning of ‘delayer or procrastinator,’ the Oxford English Dictionary will inform that it was once more commonly used to mean ‘one who delays past the appropriate time for departure.’
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The Oxford English Dictionary gives citations for monoglot (1), diglot (2), triglot (3), tetraglot
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(Oxford English Dictionary) [37.5] A howell is a "plane with a convex sole, used by coopers for smoothing the insides of casks, etc.
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Note 183: According to the Oxford English Dictionary, stereometry is "the art or science of measuring solids," whereas stereotomy is "the art of cutting stones or other solid bodies into measured forms, as in masonry.
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New Zealand Listener references in the Oxford English Dictionary?
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The series also looks at recent developments in the worlds of animation and British comedy, and tells the strange tale of how convicts, scholars and recluses brought the Oxford English Dictionary into being.
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The word "neophilia" love of novelty is more than 100 years old—the first citation in the Oxford English Dictionary dates from 1899.
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According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the term was coined in the late 19th century by British philosopher John Stuart Mill, who also used Jeremy Bentham's synonym, cacotopia.
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According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the word petard came into substantive use in 1598, so it†™ s fair to speculate that viewers of Hamlet (first performed c. 1600-01) may have been aware of the word†™ s etymological root in the French pétard, from the verb péter, to fart.
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After reading the original post in which Kirsty employed the term "revert" I consulted my Concise Oxford English Dictionary (the standard everyday authority on the English language), but could not find a single entry (under the relevant headword) defining "revert" in the sense claimed by Kirsty to be the genuine one.
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The Oxford English Dictionary (first edition) associates it with such onomatopoeic words as flit and flick, emphasizing a lack of seriousness; on the other hand, it has been attributed to the old French "Conter fleurette", which means "to (try to) seduce" by the dropping of flower leaves, that is, "to speak sweet nothings".
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* Words added to the Oxford English Dictionary in the past decade include: alcopop, cybersex (2001); gobshite (2002); wazzock, blog (2003); home-wrecker (2004); gastropub, emo
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In contrast to anaesthesia, which signifies loss of feeling - including such sensations as heat and cold, consciousness being optional - the Oxford English Dictionary defines analgesia as insensibility to pain; painlessness.
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(Oxford English Dictionary) [21.6] A cooper is a highly skilled "craftsman who makes and repairs wooden vessels formed of staves and hoops, as casks, buckets, tubs.
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The Oxford English Dictionary traces "Hindooism" to an 1829 reference in the Bengalee, Vol 43, and also refers to an 1858 usage by the German Indologist Max Müller.
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That's because, according to the Oxford English Dictionary, the word "pie" - defined as a baked dish topped with and sometimes also surrounded by pastry - may well derive from the Latin word pica, meaning magpie.
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The Oxford English Dictionary, the Pedant's Bible, gives" franticness "as" The state or condition of being frantic ", so we don't have to see 'frenzy' as the noun and 'frantic' as the adjective, despite their common etymology, especially because we also have 'frenzical'.
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It's really shortened the shelf life," says Mr. Dalzell, who is considered to be a real "big noise," or a very important person, among word whizzes like Jesse Sheidlower, editor-at-large at the Oxford English Dictionary.
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I guess the Oxford English Dictionary cuts it more cleanly with a black and white approach.
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Wolcott is referring to Niccolò Machiavelli, a philosopher and writer in the Italian Renaissance, who inspired the political term Machiavellianism, defined as "the employment of cunning and duplicity in statecraft or in general conduct," according to the Oxford English Dictionary.
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↑ The term Zoroastrianism was first attested by the Oxford English Dictionary in 1874 in Archibald Sayce's Principles of Comparative Philology
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(Oxford English Dictionary) [28.2] A shoat is a weaned pig under a year old.
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D'oh!" has entered the Oxford English Dictionary, though they spell it "doh".
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Regrettably, this means that the following people are dunces: the editorial board of the Oxford English Dictionary, John Milton [cited in OED], Charles Dickens [in Martin Chuzzlewit], and John Bunyan [in Pilgrim's Progress].
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The word "zine" is a shortened form of the term fanzine, according to the Oxford English Dictionary.
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The Oxford English Dictionary cites the Elizabethan playwright Ben Jonson as the first person to use the word plagiary to designate literary theft -- and he was making a joke.
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According to the Oxford English Dictionary 'Machiavellianism' is "the employment of cunning and duplicity in statecraft or in general conduct", but as the quote above from 'The Prince' shows Machiavelli was also a pragmatic realist.
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[[User: Ro Thorpe | Ro Thorpe]] 16: 26, 4 November 2008 (UTC):: The Oxford English Dictionary does include "sovran" and derivatives, but cites no use of them any more recently than 1887, and says that these spellings are now "chiefly poetic.
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The boneheaded and the brashly patriotic rejoice at the formal induction of words like 'chuddies', 'changa', 'aloo' and 'theek' into the Oxford English Dictionary
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[3] According to the Oxford English Dictionary, "semple" is an "obsolete form of sampler," as "to give a Semplar or Specimen of what may be done.
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However, after consulting the Oxford English Dictionary, I now believe that "midget" is a pretty insulting term.
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The first citation for the word "ideation" in the sense of "creation of new ideas" in the Oxford English Dictionary is from the poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
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According to both The Oxford English Dictionary and the American Heritage Dictionary, in ancient Greek the bivalve shells you might find at the beach were called ostrakon.
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The Oxford English Dictionary's first citation for the word "garage" is from 1902.
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So I decided to look up the term foundation on the online Oxford English Dictionary.
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For example, the editors of the Oxford English Dictionary liken the lexicographer to the naturalist.
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It was, as the Oxford English Dictionary later concluded, “essentially a term of reproach.”
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Even if this were true, sanctity, as defined by the Oxford English Dictionary, is "the state or quality of being holy, sacred, or saintly," meaning that the word sanctity in itself refers to religion.
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Oxford English Dictionary traces the expression "tread upon eggs" back to the 1700s, when someone named Roger North wrote: "This gave him occasion ... to find if any slip had been made for he all along trod upon eggs.
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The two main definitions for dubious in the Oxford English Dictionary begin “objectively doubtful; fraught with doubt or uncertainty” (the supporting citations include this one, from 1548: “To abide the fortune of battayle, which is ever dubious and uncertayne”) and “subjectively doubtful; wavering or fluctuating in opinion” (“Though I beleeve … yet am I somewhat dubious in beleeving,” from 1632).
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Apparently according to the Oxford English Dictionary, the term comes from the French “couvre, imper. of couvrir to cover + feu fire.”
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The word romcom may now be in the Oxford English Dictionary but the age of romance definitely has a very bitter edge.
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The Oxford English Dictionary lists 125 compounds of the word ‘snow’ alone!
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Apparently according to the Oxford English Dictionary, the term comes from the French “couvre, imper. of couvrir to cover + feu fire.”
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Note 183: According to the Oxford English Dictionary, stereometry is "the art or science of measuring solids," whereas stereotomy is "the art of cutting stones or other solid bodies into measured forms, as in masonry.
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As for the origins of the word "bonspiel," Collected Wisdom blew the dust of its copy of the Oxford English Dictionary, which tells us the word is "of uncertain origin and history.
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(Oxford English Dictionary) [31.1] A skiver is a skewer onto which meat would be threaded for cooking.
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