![]() ![]() ![]() For example,Ĭommands, calls, names and exclamations, together with idiomatic nautical usages and cures and grades of fish Present difficult problems of classification, and in such cases the designation has been arbitrary. Transitive and intransitive uses which would have excessively fragmented the articles. Verbs have been combined under general definitions without the separation of The designation of the part of speech, or word-class, follows the headword the abbreviations employed are identified in a Rather than another, but in some cases, as with angishore, clumper, hurt, skerwink, skully, tawt and tole pin, a choice had to be made among close contenders. For most entries there was no occasion to select one spelling Relate the word to the printed tradition or to speech. In general we have tried to help readers to These shifting criteria for the choice of a spelling are necessitated by the diverse kinds of often complicated evidence that have been reviewed. In the last situation the vocabulary entry The word is presented in a spelling supported by the printed evidence, in a spelling of theĪssociated word in British usage, or in a spelling selected from among several available variants or even newlyĭevised to represent the pronunciation of a form recorded only in speech. (The supporting quotations, of course, illustrate the capitalization usually found in proper nouns, e.g. The Main Word is printed in bold type and, for the sake of typographical uniformity on the page, without initial capitalization, even of proper nouns. The spelling and hyphenation of allĮditorial matter in the Dictionary, with the exception of cited material, contractions and local vernacular, followsīritish practice as specified in the Shorter Oxford English Dictionary (3rd ed rev., 1955). The use of the term from printed material, speech or other identified sources. May occasionally be followed the phrases, collocations, compounds and combinations related to the main word,Īlso arranged in numbered sections and explained and, in most cases, for all the definitions illustrative examples of ![]() Numbered sections arranged usually in historical order, but if early evidence is not available, then a logical order Technical information, presented in highly compressed form the definitions, glosses or synonyms of the term in The treatment of Main Words in this Dictionary is divided structurally into four parts: the word and accompanying Order, with identifying numerical superscripts: cat 1 through cat 7 is an extreme example. Homographs of the same part of speech are arranged, in sometimes arbitrary Occasionally, also, a combination hasīeen separately treated if its affiliations recorded in the historical dictionaries deserve full, specific treatment in the newfoundlandĭog: see NEWFOUNDLAND DOG stage head: see STAGE HEAD). Such complex entries to show that the combination has in fact been treated in another place (e.g. Kind within a massed entry and itself presented in a separate article cross-references have been provided within Terms, especially some connected with the fisheries, a compound or combination may be moved from others of its The Main Words are entered in the Dictionary in alphabetical order. Stephenville Integrated High School Project.Une série de documentaires (en français). ![]()
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