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单词 vocabulary
释义
vocabularyvo‧cab‧u‧la‧ry /vəˈkæbjələri, vəʊ- $ -leri, voʊ-/ ●●● S3 noun (plural vocabularies) Word Origin
WORD ORIGINvocabulary
Origin:
1500-1600 French vocabulaire, from Medieval Latin vocabularium, from Latin vocabulum ‘word, name’, from vocare; ➔ VOCATION
Examples
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
  • a vocabulary test
  • How big is the average 4-year-old's vocabulary?
  • Naomi has been using flash cards to increase her vocabulary.
  • Reading is a good way to increase your vocabulary.
  • These stories are written for students with a vocabulary of about 2000 words.
EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS
  • Just teach me vocabulary and pronunciation.
  • Physical fear was somewhere in his emotional vocabulary but over the years he had mislaid its meaning.
  • The booksellers' and auctioneers' vocabulary concerning condition is a very extensive one and varies greatly from cataloguer to cataloguer.
  • There is no alternative to sitting down and slogging through long lists of vocabulary.
  • Words such as privilege and poverty will either change their meaning or disappear from the vocabulary.
Thesaurus
Longman Language Activatorall the words someone knows or uses
someone's vocabulary is all the words that they know or use: · These stories are written for students with a vocabulary of about 2000 words.· Reading is a good way to increase your vocabulary.· a vocabulary test· How big is the average 4-year-old's vocabulary?
all the technical words or expressions that are used in connection with a particular subject: · One of the hardest things when studying linguistics is learning all the right terminology.legal/medical/scientific etc terminology: · In legal terminology, a widow is the 'relict' of her late husband.· Kelly wants to be a nurse, and is taking a medical terminology class at night.
WORD SETS
accented, adjectiveAfrikaans, nounAnglo-Saxon, nounArabic, nounBengali, nounbilingual, adjectiveCantonese, nounChinese, nounconversant, adjectivecreole, nounDanish, noundialect, noundictation, noundirect method, noundub, verbDutch, nounEnglish, nounEsperanto, nounFarsi, nounFlemish, nounfluent, adjectiveFrancophone, adjectiveFranglais, nounFrench, adjectiveGaelic, nounGerman, nounGermanic, adjectiveGreek, nounHebraic, adjectiveHebrew, nounHindi, nounIndo-European, adjectiveItalian, nounItalo-, prefixJapanese, nounLatin, nounLatin, adjectivelinguist, nounlinguistics, nounMandarin, nounMaori, nounmodern language, nounmonolingual, adjectivemother tongue, nounmultilingual, adjectivenative speaker, nounoral, nounpatois, nounPersian, nounPolish, adjectivePortuguese, nounRomance language, nounRomany, nounRussian, nounSanskrit, nounsecond language, nounSemitic, adjectivesign, nounsign, verbsign language, nounSinhalese, nounSpanish, nounspeak, verb-speak, suffixspeaker, nounSwedish, nountransliterate, verbTurkish, nounUrdu, nounusage, nounvernacular, nounvocabulary, nounWelsh, noun
Collocations
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRY Meanings 1 & 2adjectives
· She has a very wide vocabulary.
· He had just started learning English and his vocabulary was fairly limited.
· The book teaches you the basic vocabulary that you need to know when you're on holiday.
· The instructions were full of technical vocabulary.
(=the words they can use)· Children of this age have an active vocabulary of about 1,000 words.
(=the words they can understand but do not use)· Your passive vocabulary is much larger than your active vocabulary.
verbs
· By eighteen months of age, the girl had a vocabulary of around 300 words.
(also enrich your vocabulary formal)· Reading helps to expand your vocabulary.
· What's the best way of learning new vocabulary?
vocabulary + NOUN
· The teacher gave us a vocabulary test.
formal (=a word, especially in a coursebook or a language class)· The difficult vocabulary items are explained at the bottom of the page.
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
(=a word or expression)· Students are encouraged to write down useful vocabulary items in their notebooks.
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADJECTIVE
· Concepts in Use Basic vocabulary, basic structures, short passages, and straight forward messages.· A simple 10-word list of fairly basic vocabulary should suffice.· Intended to develop recognition and efficient production of key functional phrases, improve listening ability, and expand basic business vocabulary.
· All have large vocabularies and sets of rules for putting words together in sentences.· From here on in, says Lawrence, increased performance and memory will simply lead to larger vocabularies.· Such an improvement should permit recognition systems with larger vocabularies and generally weaker top-down constraints.· The hand-crafting of semantic information for a large vocabulary would be a complex and time-consuming job.· If choreographers have had training in classical dance, they already have a large vocabulary of movement on which to call.
· A limited vocabulary of immediately useful terms should be used in all drills and conversations.· And the situation is complicated by the embarrassment that Hindi is relatively under-developed, with a limited vocabulary and a crude grammar.
· On the other hand, modern science was used to list a new vocabulary of transgression.· Such dramatic growth has given rise to a whole new vocabulary.· The picture can then be used to introduce new vocabulary.· It seems that a new vocabulary was emerging for describing the physical events of women's lives.· I heard new vocabulary: nuclear bomb, radioactive fallout, bomb shelter.· You may also get some new vocabulary. prepare conversation before you go.· A new vocabulary of abortion has arisen.
· Ogwen apprenticeships had their uses, and maybe one of them was to bestow a wider vocabulary.
NOUN
· This may be based on the core vocabulary, or a subset thereof.
· What are some significant differences in pronunciation, vocabulary words, and syntax? 2.· Some typical vocabulary words of this creole are listed in table 7. 2.
VERB
· Fragmentation and alienation quickly entered the visual vocabulary of artists associated with early modernism.· Uranium and thorium entered lay vocabularies even as world markets for them were spawned.· New words entered their vocabulary: forgiveness, conflict resolution, national reconciliation, equity, self-empowerment.
· Horses can learn some of the vocabulary of others.· Children learn vocabulary from talking, reading, writing, and from playing with words.· Could we move to the new music or learn a fresh vocabulary?· I had to learn a new vocabulary and come to terms with words like Advent, Atonement, Assumption,.
· For Dexter it was college degrees, limited vocabulary, and growing up on the wrong side of the street.· That breath and her limited vocabulary were snapping me out of grinning aw-shucks-ness.
· Datasets are exhaustively indexed by subject, using a controlled vocabulary or thesaurus.· Instead, he creates credible new tunes using the vocabulary of the Beatles to create a bizarre version of the band.· Hence the definitions aim to be very clear and precise, perhaps produced using a restricted defining vocabulary.· The picture can then be used to introduce new vocabulary.· Most tourist snapshots also use a vocabulary of photographic practice which is embedded in power relations.· When speakers of one language borrow words from another language, the foreign words come to be used as regular vocabulary items.· By a long process the child gradually learns and uses an increasing vocabulary.· The explanation is that the domestic cat uses two vocabularies at once.
1[countable, uncountable] all the words that someone knows or uses:  Teachers were impressed by his vocabulary.2[countable] all the words in a particular language:  English has the largest vocabulary of any language.3[countable, uncountable] the words that are typically used when talking about a particular subject:  Most technical jobs use a specialized vocabulary.vocabulary of the vocabulary of politics4[countable, uncountable] the range of possible features, effects, actions etc, especially in a type of music or artvocabulary of Charlie Parker expanded the vocabulary of jazz.5(the word) failure/guilt/compromise etc is not in somebody’s vocabulary used to say that someone never thinks of accepting failure etc6[countable] old-fashioned a list of words with explanations of their meanings, especially in a book for learning a foreign languageCOLLOCATIONS– Meanings 1 & 2adjectiveslarge/wide/extensive· She has a very wide vocabulary.limited/small· He had just started learning English and his vocabulary was fairly limited.basic/essential vocabulary· The book teaches you the basic vocabulary that you need to know when you're on holiday.technical/specialized vocabulary· The instructions were full of technical vocabulary.somebody's active vocabulary (=the words they can use)· Children of this age have an active vocabulary of about 1,000 words.somebody's passive vocabulary (=the words they can understand but do not use)· Your passive vocabulary is much larger than your active vocabulary.verbshave a vocabulary· By eighteen months of age, the girl had a vocabulary of around 300 words.expand/improve your vocabulary (also enrich your vocabulary formal)· Reading helps to expand your vocabulary.learn vocabulary· What's the best way of learning new vocabulary?vocabulary + NOUNa vocabulary test/exercise· The teacher gave us a vocabulary test.a vocabulary item formal (=a word, especially in a coursebook or a language class)· The difficult vocabulary items are explained at the bottom of the page.
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