Dictionary: A reference book containing a list of words – usually in alphabetical order – giving information about form, pronunciation, etymology, grammar, and meaning. A foreign-language dictionary is an alphabetical list of words of one language with their meaning and equivalents in another language. In medicine and science, a dictionary is often a comprehensive list of accepted terminology and names important in a special field.

Synonym: dictionary [publication type], dictionary (pt).

Terms Related to Dictionary

• Directory (PT)

  An alphabetical or classified list of names, organizations, subjects, etc., giving usually titles, addresses, affiliations, and other professional data.

• Encyclopedia

  Works containing information articles on subjects in every field of knowledge, usually arranged in alphabetical order, or a similar work limited to a special field ...

• Encyclopedias (PT)

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• Speech Discrimination Test

  Tests of the ability to hear and understand speech as determined by scoring the number of words in a word list repeated correctly.

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  A list of works, documents, and other publications on medical subjects and topics of interest to the field of medicine.

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• Philology

  The study of literature in its widest sense, including grammar, etymology, criticism, literary history, language history, linguistic history, systems of writing, and anything else that ...

• Bibliography

  A list of works, documents or other publications, usually with some relationship between them, e.g., by a given author, on a given subject, or published ...

• Word Association Test

  Lists of words to which individuals are asked to respond ascertaining the conceptual meaning held by the individual.

• Linguistic

  The science of language, including phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, pragmatics, and historical linguistics. (Random House Unabridged Dictionary, 2d ed)