On that way, comparable corpora can be seen as a monolingual dictionary and Parallel corpora could be compared to bilingual dictionary.
Others, like Wordnik or Wiktionary, don't have that explicit focus, yet provide useful resources to learners due to their collaborative nature, which tends to produce definitions and sample sentences that are more diverse, and written in popular terms.
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A dictionary collector, Shea had already read Webster's Second International Dictionary in the 1990s.
When the Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English was first published in 1978, its most striking feature was its use of a 2000-word defining vocabulary based on Michael West's General Service List, and since then defining vocabularies have become a standard component of monolingual learner's dictionaries for English and for other languages.
Webster's Dictionary of 1828 lists dragoman as well as the variants drogman and truchman in English.
"Education, n, That which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding." Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary.
After the death of Noah Webster, the lexicographer, the Merriams purchased the right of future publication of Webster's Dictionary.
In addition, Wellman was special editor for library terms for Webster's New International Dictionary, Second Edition.
The name "International Scientific Vocabulary" was first used by Philip Gove in Webster’s Third New International Dictionary (1961).
Kenyon had also earlier published American Pronunciation (1924) and served as the consulting editor of pronunciation to the second edition of Webster's New International Dictionary in his career as a pioneering expert on the study of American English, which earned him the epithet "the dean of American phoneticians".
Kory Stamper is a lexicographer and editor for the Merriam-Webster family of dictionaries.
Webster's name has become synonymous with "dictionary" in the United States, especially the modern Merriam-Webster dictionary that was first published in 1828 as An American Dictionary of the English Language.
Philip Babcock Gove (1902-1972) was an American lexicographer who was editor-in-chief of the Webster's Third New International Dictionary, published in 1961.
According to the 1913 edition of Webster's Dictionary, a clay pug mill typically consists of an upright shaft armed with projecting knives, which is caused to revolve in a hollow cylinder, tub, or vat, in which the clay body is placed.
The attribution can be found in the Webster's Dictionary (the American Dictionary of the English Language, published by Noah Webster in 1828).
It is an example of "cynical lexicography" in the tradition of Ambrose Bierce's The Devil's Dictionary.
The origins of The Devil's Dictionary can be traced to when Ambrose Bierce was a columnist in the San Francisco-based News Letter, a small weekly financial magazine which had been founded by Frederick Marriott in the late 1850s.