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... words of the OED second edition, 60 years to proofread it, and 540 megabytes to store it electronically. As of 30 November 2005, the Oxford English Dictionary contained approximately 301,100 main entries. Supplementing the entry headwords, there are 157,000 bold-type combinations and derivatives; 169,000 italicized-bold phrases and combinations; 616,500 word-forms in to...

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...Words in the Hawaiian Language" was published by Lorrin Andrews. The evident usefulness of this list of about 6000 words led its author to prepare "A Dictionary of the Hawaiian Language" which was issued in 1865.Andrews' dictionary had long been out of print and increasing interest in Polynesian linguistic studies, the need of an authoritative reference book for the spelli...

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...strength, and especially of mental energy, has induced him to forego such an attempt and be contented with a mere history of the manner in which this dictionary has come into existence. The history of hawaiian lexicography is short....

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...efined by a subset of the Consortium’s range of IP addresses. 3.3.5 Entry A dictionary definition A record of information in some categories of refere... ...istribute information online and/or in printed form. 3.1.1.2 Reference Work Dictionary, encyclopedia, directory, manual, guide, atlas, bibliography, i...

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... years, of revising a work of considerable size. We are grateful to have had this privilege, because the need for a complete revision of the Hawaiian Dictionary has long been evident, judging from the response of scholars and of many other readers, not only in Hawai?i, but from all parts of the world. Work of revision, begun in 1972, has taken so long that the compilers of...

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...In the revised dictionary we have attempted to credit Greek, Hebrew, and Latin as sources of many loan words in Hawaiian, drawing on Elbert and Knowlton's unpublished paper (1985) that lists words probably from Greek (mostly in the New Test...

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...is intended, in connection with the grammar, to furnish them adequate help, under the direction of the living teacher, until they can use the English Dictionary with English definitions. The present is mainly a translation of Webster's Abridgement still more abridged. Many words are thrown out, which are rarely used, and which will never be needed, till the student is a...

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... can explain this thing we just had. Maybe only an oxymoron can.” “Oxymorons can’t explain a damn thing.” “They are in the dictionary.” “No ...

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...ow of a doubt exactly who He is, or that He even exists? reason Webster’s Dictionary offers two definitions for the term, “reason.” The first defini...

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...ch other, but neither are ordered in the typical alephbet order. Also, while working on this book, I found a few missing words in my 'Counting Roots' dictionary, and a few errors....

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...This book is essentially an enhanced dictionary that can also be used for these other purposes: 1: to determine the frequencies of word usage in the Tanakh ('Old' Testament). 2: to more easily compare words with similar spellings. 3: to compare all of the ...

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...55. Freedom 56. Animals 57. Music and Art 58. Travel 59. Change 60. Computers and Other Inventions 61. Humility 62. Leftovers Dictionary...

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...The "Notes on Hawaiian Grammar" included in the first three editions of the Hawaiian-English Dictionary have in this volume been revised and expanded. The original notes were written during the early 1950s, and since that time the number of students of Polynesian languages has increased considerably, with resulting ...

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... included tense, but the alternative tenses are not given for every Hawaiian perfective aspect. Reading of the Grammar will be aided if the Hawaiian Dictionary is at hand, but intelligibility does not depend on access to that volume. However, the Grammar is by no means a substitute for the Dictionary. Meanings in the examples in the Grammar are in some instances ad hoc ...

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...This book is a universal dictionary of arts and sciences. It contains the definitions of the terms in several arts, liberal and mechanical, and also several sciences. Encyclopedie is was a translation of "Cyclopaedia" into French. As Diderot transl...

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... special interest or importance. In general only those Honolulu street names were included that have meanings not easily discoverable in the Hawaiian Dictionary. The important difference between place names in Hawai i and those on the United States mainland is that in Hawai i about 86 percent of the names are in the language of the aboriginal population—a single language ...

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...shadow of a doubt exactly who He is, or that He even exists? REASON Webster’s Dictionary offers two definitions for the term, “reason.” The first de...

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... T H E W I S D O M O F K A B B A L A H 69 everything in Hebrew, they built a dictionary--“the link between the root and the branch”-- that today is...

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...at Kabbalists had been experiencing throughout the generations. Webster’s Dictionary defines a generation as “a group of individuals born and living...

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...development of curriculum materials for Hawaiian medium education, teacher training, Na Maka O Kana Hawaiian language newspaper, and the Mamaka Kaiao dictionary of contemporary Hawaiian terms....

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...n hear people say opportunity knocks but once. I want to run counter to that saying “What is opportunity in the first place”? According to the Oxford Dictionary, it is “a time or set of circumstances that makes it possible to do something”. In my own way; it’s the occurrences of events that make things happen. How many times have you heard of this phrase “opportunity knock...