On July 4, 2008, InterActiveCorperation announced the acquisition of Lexico Publishing Group, which owns Dictionary.com, Thesaurus.com, and Reference.com.
Immediately prior to leading Ask.com, Leeds was the President and chief executive officer of Dictionary.com, a top 50 website in the US.
Dictionary.com defines Sheeple as informal: "people who tend to follow the majority in matters of opinion, taste, etc"; a combination of "sheep" and "people".
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Olson, James S., An Ethnohistorical Dictionary of the Russian and Soviet Empires.
The General Biographical Dictionary is a bestselling book compiled by British author Alexander Chalmers.
In addition to publishing numerous articles in Portuguese and international journals, in 2005 she co-authored (with Ana Gabriela Macedo) the Dicionário da Crítica Feminista (Dictionary of Feminist Criticism) and has recently published a new annotated edition of the feminist classic Novas Cartas Portuguesas (New Portuguese Letters) by Maria Isabel Barreno, Maria Teresa Horta and Maria Velho da Costa.
Robert Todd Carroll in his book The skeptic's dictionary (2003) wrote that Blavatsky used trickery into deceiving others into thinking she had paranormal powers.
The 5th edition was rewritten by new editor Nicolas Slonimsky, who would remain editor for several decades (through the 8th edition in 1992) and have a considerable influence on the style and content of the dictionary.
The term "bouquiniste" appears in the dictionary of the Académie française in 1789.
Keating joined BBC Radio 5 at its launch in August 1990, where amongst other programmes, such as Euromix and Vibe, she co-hosted an early 90’s afternoon show with film critic Mark Kermode; the show was named A Game of Two Halves and in his autobiography Kermode described Keating as “the very dictionary definition of Lovely”.
Joseph Gillow, Bibliographical Dictionary of Catholics, s.
Dag Gundersen (born 15 January 1928 in Ringsaker, Hedmark) is a Norwegian linguist and lexicographer, dictionary editor and professor.
The Dictionary of American Biography was published in New York City by Charles Scribner's Sons under the auspices of the American Council of Learned Societies.
The Dictionary of Australian Artists (DAA) was the outcome of a project begun in the 1970s at the University of Sydney under the leadership of Bernard Smith and funded by the Australian Research Council.
Under the auspices of the Henry Moore Institute, work began in 2000 on revising the dictionary for a new edition, overseen by Ingrid Roscoe, with the assistance of co-editors Emma Hardy and Greg Sullivan.
First published in 1961 by Otto Harrassowitz in Wiesbaden, Germany, it was an enlarged and revised English version of Wehr's German Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart ("Arabic dictionary for the contemporary written language") (1952) and its Supplement (1959).
Tantam, D. (2004) "Ronald Fairbairn" in Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, Oxford
Diana Whalley 2006 'A Dictionary of Lake District Place-Names', English Place Name Society, has this name as either place-name 'the shieling at the hollow' or 'the shieling where the plant called dock grows', or a personal name which "may have been a link with the family traced in Parker 1918" (Parker CA 'A pedigree of the family of Docker'. CW2 18, 161-73).
In 1872, Konrad Duden, headmaster of a Gymnasium (secondary school) in Schleiz, Thuringia, published a German dictionary called the Schleizer Duden, the first Duden.
He was a Director of the Harvard University Press and served as editor of the original Dictionary of American Biography. His first contribution to historical scholarship was a still authoritative biography of the American political commentator and educator Thomas Cooper (Yale University Press, 1926).
Ernst Johann Eitel, a German Protestant missionary to China and the author of a Cantonese dictionary.
His specialisms were limestone and semi-arid climate processes, and he was a contributor to books such British Caving with Cecil Cullingford, A Dictionary of Geographical Terms with Sir L. Dudley Stamp and to the Guide to Birmingham and its Region of Prof Michael Wise.
It is also responsible for a number of important publications within the field of Egyptology, the best known being Gardiner's Egyptian Grammar and Faulkner's A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian.
The area of present-day Hiezu appears in a Heian-period dictionary compilaed in 934, the Wamyō Ruijushō, as part of the village of Mino in Aimi District.
The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, second edition, edited by Stanley Sadie and John Tyrrell.
It is a triptyque, but all three parts take place in Thrace, one of the more economically desolate places in Greece.
During his tenure, expansion has been evident such as the Recording Academy’s decision (2010) to add the Americana Category to its list of Grammy Awards and in 2011, Merriam-Webster to added the word, Americana, as a musical term, to its prestigious Collegiate Dictionary.
According to Roeland van Eynden and Adriaan van der Willigen in their dictionary of artists known as Geschiedenis der vaderlandsche schilderkunst, he was a pupil along with Petrus Camper of the genre painter Louis de Moni.
He edited a combined version of John Walker's and Noah Webster's Dictionaries (London, 1864), and Walker's Rhyming Dictionary (London, 1865), with an introduction on English versification.
Warrack, John and West, Ewan (1992), The Oxford Dictionary of Opera, 782 pages, ISBN 0-19-869164-5
Dodge, Y (2003) The Oxford Dictionary of Statistical Terms, OUP.
"Turnpike Theory", The New Palgrave: A Dictionary of Economics, 1987, v. 4, pp.
Alain de Mijolla : International Dictionary of Psychoanalysis 3 vol.
Douglas Adams used the name "Mavis Enderby" in his spoof The Meaning of Liff dictionary "of things that there aren't any words for yet".
Warrack, John and Ewan West, "Mitridate, re di Ponto", The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Opera.
Garner's Modern American Usage (3rd edition, 2009), a guide for careful writers of American English originally published (1st edition 1998) as A Dictionary of Modern American Usage of which an abridged form was published in 2000 by the Oxford University Press with the title The Oxford Dictionary of American Usage and Style.
The book contains extensive explanations regarding Finnish mythology and is often seen as a dictionary.
Nora Thompson Dean created material included four Lenape Language Lessons; these sound recordings, as well as others made with Dean and other Lenape elders during the twentieth-century, have been digitized to provide the voices of the Lenape Talking Dictionary, a project funded by the National Science Foundation.
In his 1999 book, The Big Book Of Beastly Mispronunciations, logophile Charles Harrington Elster noted that the vast majority of those he spoke with during the writing of his book as well as 99 percent of the 1985 usage panel of Morris & Morris' Harper Dictionary of Contemporary Usage specifically condemned the use of the word and characterized it as a mispronunciation.
The final track from Orange Rhyming Dictionary, "Sweet Avenue" is often mistakenly attributed to the singer Damien Rice due to regular misattribution on peer-to-peer file sharing networks.
He was the author of the influential Altdeutsches Wörterbuch (Old German Dictionary), and with August Heinrich Hoffmann von Fallersleben (1798-1874), was co-editor of the Weimarisches Jahrbuch für deutsche Sprache, Literatur und Kunst (Weimar Annals of German language, literature and art).
In addition to their printing houses, the Oxford English Dictionary is a prominent English-language dictionary worldwide, while Cambridge Assessment provides a number of widely recognised qualifications for students (including GCSEs, A-levels and English-language proficiency certificates such as the Certificate in Advanced English).
In: A. de Mijolla (Ed.), International dictionary of psychoanalysis, vol. 1 (pp. 129–30).
Politicide has several meanings but one mentioned by the Oxford English Dictionary is as a synonym for Political suicide.
Freeman also provided the chapters on stakeholder theory and stakeholder management for the world's first "Dictionary of CSR", the Institute for Corporate Culture Affairs "A to Z of Corporate Social Responsibility"
The books prepared and published by Loughridge, with the assistance of his interpreter, were a hymn book, a catechism, translation of the Gospel of Matthew, a treatise on baptism, and a dictionary in two parts, Creek and English, and English and Creek.
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Many scholarly Greek and Hebrew Lexicons (e.g., Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon, Thayer's Greek Dictionary, and Vine's Bible Dictionary) also use Strong's numbers for cross-referencing, encouraging hermeneutical approaches to study.
shared pool, the cache of parsed commonly used SQL statements, and also the data-dictionary cache containing tables, views and triggers
Taber's Cyclopedic Medical Dictionary is an encyclopedic medical dictionary published by F.A. Davis Company since 1940 by Clarence Wilbur Taber.
Subjects included computer applications, computer hardware and software technology, concepts in computer science, practical electronics projects, BASIC and machine code programming, other programming languages, operating systems (including MS-DOS and UNIX), and a jargon dictionary.
The Sesame Street Dictionary is an illustrated children's dictionary featuring Muppet characters from the popular television show Sesame Street.