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单词 lexicography
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Definition of lexicography in English:

lexicography

noun ˌlɛksɪˈkɒɡrəfiˌlɛksəˈkɑɡrəfi
mass noun
  • The activity or occupation of compiling dictionaries.

    Webster's name had become famous before he embarked on his career in lexicography
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Morris' interest in lexicography grew, and he produced his own dictionary of Australian English, consciously modelled on the OED, in 1898.
    • Winchester is excellent on the theory and practice of lexicography, explaining succinctly how the English language evolved, and how successive generations of scholars sought to record it.
    • His work included zoology, Arabic grammar, poetry, rhetoric and lexicography.
    • The annotation pays particular attention to issues of social context, and to staging: it is more than just an extended exercise in lexicography.
    • Either I've slipped in from some parallel linguistic universe, or the profession of lexicography is falling short in the domain of tools.
    • In the world of today's lexicography, usage is king.
    • Finally, this Sunday strip has no connection to syntax or prosody, but does highlight the inadequacy of modern lexicography.
    • In the coming years, it will be interesting to see how new areas such as Internet word analysis develops in relationship to traditional areas such as lexicography, semantics and linguistics.
    • In reality, therefore, there is not a conflict between descriptive and prescriptive grammar and lexicography, but rather a difference of mission.
    • In other ways, it was like a research school and a scholarly publishing house: its scholars compared and analysed texts, translated them, wrote commentaries, and undertook lexicography and the study of grammar.
    • Although these two categories - grammar and lexicography - are organically related and interwoven, they will be treated separately for maximal clarity.
    • Trademark names used as verbs are a further area of difficulty, both generally and in lexicography.
    • Often these movements were defined not only by geographical borders but by new ideas of language and lexicography.
    • The enrichment of the database opens up new perspectives in the field of computational lexicography since the semantic networks contained in the collocational database can be used to enhance corpus-based collocation extraction.
    • Is this the last word in New Testament lexicography?
    • After sifting through a mountain of words, the author has settled on 1,500 meanings that reflect the ever-changing world of lexicography.
    • The glosses above required no independent lexicography because I just cut and pasted them from the OED, which cites these examples of the intransitive.
    • By contrast, Johnson has no reason either to castigate lexicography or to celebrate the completion of his own task.
    • This interest in meteorology is reflected in diverse forms and manners in Arabic poetry, lexicography, and grammar.
    • The history of lexicography in England can be traced back to the 16th Century or even earlier.

Derivatives

  • lexicographic

  • adjectiveˌlɛksɪkəˈɡrafɪkˌlɛksəkəˈɡræfɪk
    • In fact, I think that any one of those examples would probably do as an adequate basis for lexicographic generalization, suggesting that my use in the preceding paragraph, though plausible enough, is not the same sense.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • This might be one of those cases where two words from completely different sources form a mutually reinforcing resonance: a lexicographic pole, so to speak.
      • Unfortunately it seems only to go back to 1990, so we can't compare lexicographic terrorism awareness across the Atlantic in 1977.
      • A real risk is in language and in law something distinctly less than a probability, and it cannot be elevated by lexicographic stages into something more than it is.
      • Anyone with a bit of imagination can also think of many ways that access to very large transcribed speech corpora could be used as an empirical foundation for scientific or lexicographic investigations of speech and language.
  • lexicographical

  • adjective ˌlɛksɪkəˈɡrafɪk(ə)lˌlɛksəkəˈɡræfək(ə)l
    • Though I'll confess to a recreational curiosity about the expressions themselves, there are a couple of larger issues here that may excuse an indulgence in lexicographical minutiae.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • I don't know what makes words catch on, but I know you can't just stick bits of other words together, however ingeniously, and expect an awed speech community to take your lexicographical collage to its bosom.
      • This is a joke with a few lexicographical layers.
      • There is no lexicographical nor etymological reason for this.
      • I believe that, failing the discovery of the lexicographical equivalent of the crock of gold at the end of the rainbow, we are unlikely to find out the truth about this one.
  • lexicographically

  • adverbˌlɛksikəˈɡrafɪk(ə)li
    • Up there in Nunavut, it's either feast or famine, lexicographically speaking.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Finally, in light of these thoughts I will offer some tentative suggestions for how to handle middle-only verbs lexicographically.
      • It's curious that such a common usage is lexicographically ignored - I wonder if sports terms in general are similarly underdictionaried, and if so, why?
      • The matches are found by sorting the substrings lexicographically via a hashing scheme and by then scanning these arrays for k-length matches.
      • This article will challenge the normal grammatical conception of deponency and will go on to examine the problems intrinsic to it lexicographically.

Rhymes

autobiography, bibliography, biography, cardiography, cartography, chirography, choreography, chromatography, cinematography, cosmography, cryptography, demography, discography, filmography, geography, hagiography, historiography, hydrography, iconography, lithography, oceanography, orthography, palaeography (US paleography), photography, radiography, reprography, stenography, topography, typography
 
 

Definition of lexicography in US English:

lexicography

nounˌlɛksəˈkɑɡrəfiˌleksəˈkäɡrəfē
  • The practice of compiling dictionaries.

    Webster's name had become famous before he embarked on his career in lexicography
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Often these movements were defined not only by geographical borders but by new ideas of language and lexicography.
    • The history of lexicography in England can be traced back to the 16th Century or even earlier.
    • The glosses above required no independent lexicography because I just cut and pasted them from the OED, which cites these examples of the intransitive.
    • Is this the last word in New Testament lexicography?
    • Finally, this Sunday strip has no connection to syntax or prosody, but does highlight the inadequacy of modern lexicography.
    • Winchester is excellent on the theory and practice of lexicography, explaining succinctly how the English language evolved, and how successive generations of scholars sought to record it.
    • Although these two categories - grammar and lexicography - are organically related and interwoven, they will be treated separately for maximal clarity.
    • Either I've slipped in from some parallel linguistic universe, or the profession of lexicography is falling short in the domain of tools.
    • After sifting through a mountain of words, the author has settled on 1,500 meanings that reflect the ever-changing world of lexicography.
    • In other ways, it was like a research school and a scholarly publishing house: its scholars compared and analysed texts, translated them, wrote commentaries, and undertook lexicography and the study of grammar.
    • His work included zoology, Arabic grammar, poetry, rhetoric and lexicography.
    • Morris' interest in lexicography grew, and he produced his own dictionary of Australian English, consciously modelled on the OED, in 1898.
    • In the world of today's lexicography, usage is king.
    • In the coming years, it will be interesting to see how new areas such as Internet word analysis develops in relationship to traditional areas such as lexicography, semantics and linguistics.
    • The annotation pays particular attention to issues of social context, and to staging: it is more than just an extended exercise in lexicography.
    • In reality, therefore, there is not a conflict between descriptive and prescriptive grammar and lexicography, but rather a difference of mission.
    • The enrichment of the database opens up new perspectives in the field of computational lexicography since the semantic networks contained in the collocational database can be used to enhance corpus-based collocation extraction.
    • This interest in meteorology is reflected in diverse forms and manners in Arabic poetry, lexicography, and grammar.
    • Trademark names used as verbs are a further area of difficulty, both generally and in lexicography.
    • By contrast, Johnson has no reason either to castigate lexicography or to celebrate the completion of his own task.
 
 
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