Dictionaries
A dictionary is a listing of words in one or more specific languages, often arranged alphabetically (or by radical and stroke for ideographic languages), which may include information on definitions, usage, etymologies, pronunciations, translation, etc. or a book of words in one language with their equivalents in another, sometimes known as a lexicon. It is a lexicographical reference that shows inter-relationships among the data.A broad distinction is made between general and specialized dictionaries. Specialized dictionaries include words in specialist fields, rather than a complete range of words in the language. Lexical items that describe concepts in specific fields are usually …
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UMP: University of Manitoba Press · 12 April 2024 English
"The Honourable John Norquay is a magnificent book. Friesen meticulously documents Norquay's many accomplishments, larger-than-life character, and charisma. He paints a picture of a negotiator and orator who ably uses …
included many words that never made it into English dictionaries or did so with other definitions. John shared …
Alberta Teachers' Association · 9 February 2024 English
Undertake a pilot project to evaluate the draft program of funds senior high school programing to ensure that the funding studies, the teaching and learning resources, and the impact of …
reference materials as print and electronic dictionaries, 3.2.1.14 The Government of Alberta should not … not implement any bilingual dictionaries, picture dictionaries, writing handbooks high-stakes testing …
CPRC: University of Regina Press · 27 January 2024 English
Rediscovering, valuing, and embracing Indigenous spirituality and wisdom is critical for humanity to survive in the future. Civilization is a western, Eurocentric construct borne from a distrust of nature, a …
settings and it is still not adequately treated in dictionaries. I owe any appearance of fluency in my books …
Alberta Teachers' Association · 3 January 2024 English
Undertake a pilot project to evaluate the draft program of funds senior high school programing to ensure that the funding studies, the teaching and learning resources, and the impact of …
reference materials as print and electronic dictionaries, 3.2.1.14 The Government of Alberta should not … not implement any bilingual dictionaries, picture dictionaries, writing handbooks high-stakes testing …
ICP: Institute for Community Prosperity · 28 November 2023 English
He currently serves as a Director on the Board of Alberta Ecotrust, as an Advisor to the Nonprofit Resilience Lab, and on the Editorial Advisory Board of The Philanthropist, and …
the symbols with the eyes or fingers,” Oxford Dictionaries. (1990). The Concise Oxford Dictionary. Oxford …
CPRC: University of Regina Press · 25 November 2023 English
The 25th anniversary of a historically significant collection, presented in Cree and English. kôhkominawak otâcimowiniwâwa / Our Grandmothers' Lives As Told in Their Own Words is a collection of reminiscences …
structure, richly documented in grammars and dictionaries, and embedded in familiar, thoroughly studied …
RSC: Royal Society of Canada · 6 November 2023
He was Chair of Canadian Studies, the Shiff Professor of Canadian Jewish History, Chair of Canadian Professors for Peace in the Middle East, Chair of Canadian Jewish Archives, governor of …
close to 150 articles published in proceedings, dictionaries, melanges and periodicals. These works have …
RNAO: Registered Nurses' Association of Ontario · 27 October 2023 English
While every effort has been made to ensure the accuracy of the contents at the time of publication, neither the authors nor the Registered Nurses’ Association of Ontario (RNAO) gives …
Evaluation and Monitoring chart in the BPG, and data dictionaries are published on the NQuIRE® website for use …
11 September 2023 English
The first edition of this memoir is a product of Langara College’s "Writing Lives" class, offered by the English Department, in 2022/2023. For this class, Bruce Allan was interviewed by …
dictionary over the head. Those were the big heavy dictionaries, and he would come up and just smoke them on …
School of Public Policy, University of Calgary · 5 September 2023 English
The Canadian Northern Corridor Research Program at The School of Public Policy, University of Calgary, is the leading platform for information and analysis on the feasibility, desirability, and acceptability of …
translation Environment(al) Not found in the dictionaries; the closest word might be ‘surroundings’ — … wasakaskamihtawin Ecology; ecological Not found in the dictionaries Land askiy — can also refer to: land, country … consulting comprehensive online Plains Cree dictionaries (which draw upon numerous sources), we don’t …
