Thesaurus Sentence Examples

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  • The results were compared with Vega's Thesaurus (1794) before publication.

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  • We often use a thesaurus to find synonyms of words.

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  • But the work is not merely a thesaurus, it is a history in a true sense, and it has an intrinsic value of its own, independent of its quotations from other works.

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  • His principal work is a laborious Lexicon Rationale, sive Thesaurus Philosophicus (Rotterdam, 1692; new and enlarged edition, Leuwarden, 1713).

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  • A thesaurus is a structured wordlist used to standardize terminology.

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  • Thesaurus engine Find social sciences records using our online thesaurus engine Find social sciences records using our online thesaurus.

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  • Or you can continue to navigate the thesaurus looking for more possible terms.

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  • Hence, thesaurus hierarchies were more like decision trees than semantic relations.

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  • Membership also includes access to research tools, Merriam-Webster's dictionary and thesaurus, and rich multimedia - all in an advertising-free environment.

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  • The process of constructing a thesaurus in the humanities becomes at some point a subjective affair.

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  • To create a thesaurus, these relationships are applied to each term.

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  • In particular the German, French, Spanish and Greek Data Archives are involved in the evaluation of the multi-lingual thesaurus.

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  • When the historical thesaurus is complete, it will offer scholars the first comprehensive semantic listing of vocabulary.

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  • In the multimedia thesaurus these will be associated with equivalent text representations.

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  • However, for some applications the text thesaurus may already exist or the the time investment may be deemed worthwhile.

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  • He also published an edition of Buchanan's works, continued Graevius's great work, Thesaurus Antiquitatum et Historiarum Italiae, and wrote a treatise De Vectigalibus populi Romani (1694) and a short manual of Roman antiquities, Antiquitatum Romanarum Brevis Descriptio (1711).

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  • Editors may introduce in their thesaurus the subsumption relations correct for that use, i.e. of the derived concepts.

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  • An article may have more than 20 subject headings, which come from a Thesaurus of controlled terms.

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  • When the Historical Thesaurus is complete, it will offer scholars the first comprehensive semantic listing of vocabulary.

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  • The interface between translation services incorporating thesaurus mappings with clearly defined logical properties should be defined.

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  • The thesaurus protocols we have examined have no direct facility for semantic expansion operations.

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  • Table 3 shows some examples of constraints based on thesaurus relationships.

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  • The bursary will allow Duncan to attend a CILIP course in London on thesaurus construction.

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  • You can include all narrower terms of a broad thesaurus term by selecting to explode the term in your search.

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  • Brush off the thesaurus and replace those colloquialisms with formal modes of speech.

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  • Roget's is the best-known thesaurus, but there are others.

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  • The Free Dictionary by Farlex is a very comprehensive dictionary, thesaurus and encyclopedia.

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  • Type your word into the search box and select the Dictionary or Thesaurus tab.

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  • Here you'll find language games and a kid-friendly dictionary and thesaurus tailored toward children.

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  • You also get more comprehensive references of the Collegiate Dictionary and Thesaurus and Encyclopedia, the Medical dictionary and the Spanish-English and French-English dictionaries.

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  • Young people can also use the site's dictionary, thesaurus and almanac to obtain information about the sciences.

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  • Also as a member, you have access to Britannica's World Atlases, Timelines and the Merriam-Webster Dictionary and Thesaurus.

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  • Once a member, you'll have access to everything that Oxford Press publishes, including their dictionary and thesaurus.

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  • I'm just here to get drunk," to the more sophisticated "Anyone have a thesaurus?

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  • You may find a crossword dictionary or crossword thesaurus helpful with your game playing and puzzle solving.

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  • The Dictionary.com dictionary and thesaurus application allows you to look up the spellings and meanings of words.

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  • Simply looking up words in a dictionary or thesaurus is a great learning activity for kids as well!

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  • Most programs have built in thesaurus and dictionary features, and some will evaluate your writing for passive and active voice and so on.

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  • Don't use a thesaurus to come up with synonyms.

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  • The site also offers links to thesaurus and encyclopedia entries.

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  • This he printed in 1606 in his Thesaurus temporum, in which .he collected, restored and arranged every chronological relic extant in Greek or Latin.

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  • It features the largest and most complete English-Polish dictionary, thesaurus, and expanded grammar reference section.

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  • Focus on vocabulary choices, using a thesaurus, and building up detail and description through the choice of subordinate clauses.

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  • Second, we discuss distinct classes of " multilingual thesaurus ", which is used in a fuzzy way in literature.

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  • Thesaurus engine Find social sciences records using our online thesaurus.

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  • However, if you notice, you can also use that word to search the thesaurus, the Spanish-English (and reverse) dictionary and see if there's any relation to something in the medical dictionary.

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  • In 1794 Vega published his Thesaurus logarithmorum completus, a folio volume containing a reprint of the logarithms of numbers from Vlacq's Arithmetica logarithmica of 1628, and Trigonometria artificialis of 1633.

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  • They may be looked upon as the last editors of the now unwieldy thesaurus; less probable is the view, often maintained since Rashi (11th century), that it was first written down in their age.4 4.

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  • His treatises De mensura astrolabii and De utilitatibus astrolabii (to be found, on the authority of Salzburg MSS., in Pez, Thesaurus anecdotorum novissimus, iii.) being the first contributions of moment furnished by a European to this subject, Hermann was for a time considered the inventor of the astrolabe.

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  • The next publication was due to Vlacq, who appended to his logarithms of numbers in the Arithmetica logarithmica of 1628 a table giving log sines, tangents and secants for every minute of the quadrant to ro places; there were obtained by calculating the logarithms of the natural sines, &c. given in the Thesaurus mathematicus of Pitiscus (1613).

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  • The new thought of a treasury of merits (thesaurus meritorum) introduced further changes.

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  • He published Magnalia Dei in locis subterraneis (Brunswick, 1727), Historia naturalis curiosa lapidis (1727), and Thesaurus subterraneus Ducatus Brunsvigii (1728).

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  • A reprint of his Lycophron in 1702 was dedicated to Graevius, and the Antiquities was afterwards published in Latin in the Thesaurus of Gronovius.

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  • The table appeared in Schulze's Neue and erweiterte Sammlung logarithmischer Tafeln (1778), and was reprinted in Vega's Thesaurus (1794), already referred to.

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  • Vega's Thesaurus has been reproduced photographically by the Italian government.

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  • Doc. p. 112, 1.21, is correctly rendered in Payne Smith, Thesaurus Syr.

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  • It has devised a scheme, founded on that for the Latin Thesaurus of the Berlin Academy, which almost mechanically sorts the whole number of occurrences of every word in any text examined.

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  • C. Suicer, Thesaurus, sub voce 1 310rT1.0-µ.a; Ad.

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