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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Lexicon \Lex"i*con\ (l[e^]ks"[i^]*k[o^]n), n. [Gr. lexiko`n (sc. bibli`on), neut. of lexiko`s of or belonging to words, fr. le`xis a speaking, speech, a way of speaking, a single word or phrase, fr. le`gein to say, to speak. See Legend.] A vocabulary, or book containing an alphabetical arrangement of the words in a language or of a considerable number of them, with the definition of each; a dictionary; especially, a dictionary of the Greek, Hebrew, or Latin language.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
c.1600, "a dictionary," from Middle French lexicon or directly from Modern Latin lexicon, from Greek lexikon (biblion) "word (book)," from neuter of lexikos "pertaining to words," from lexis "word," from legein "say" (see lecture (n.)).\n
\nUsed originally of dictionaries of Greek, Syriac, Hebrew and Arabic, because these typically were in Latin and in Modern Latin lexicon, not dictionarius, was the preferred word. The modern sense of "vocabulary proper to some sphere of activity" (1640s) is a figurative extension.
Wiktionary
n. 1 The vocabulary of a language. 2 (context linguistics English) A dictionary that includes or focuses on lexemes. 3 A dictionary of Classical Greek, Hebrew, Latin, or Aramaic. 4 (context programming English) The lexicology of a programming language. (Usually called lexical structure.) 5 (context rare English) Any dictionary. 6 The vocabulary used by or known to an individual. (Also called lexical knowledge) 7 A vocabulary specific to a certain subject.
WordNet
n. a language user's knowledge of words [syn: vocabulary, mental lexicon]
a reference book containing an alphabetical list of words with information about them [syn: dictionary]
Wikipedia
Lexicon is a serif typeface designed by Dutch type designer Bram de Does between the years 1989 and 1992. The typeface was specially designed for use at very small point sizes in Van Dale's Dictionary of the Dutch Language.
Lexicon is a card game published by Winning Moves UK, and formerly by Waddingtons, in the United Kingdom. It was originally created by David Whitelaw in 1933. Certain copies came with a 1936 competition slip wherein £1000 was offered in cash prizes . Several subsequent versions have been released.
Category:Card games introduced in 1933
A lexicon is the vocabulary of a person, language, or branch of knowledge (such as nautical or medical). In linguistics, a lexicon is a language's inventory of lexemes. The word "lexicon" derives from the Greek (lexicon), neuter of (lexikos) meaning "of or for words".
Linguistic theories generally regard human languages as consisting of two parts: a lexicon, essentially a catalogue of a language's words (its wordstock); and a grammar, a system of rules which allow for the combination of those words into meaningful sentences. The lexicon is also thought to include bound morphemes, which cannot stand alone as words (such as most affixes). In some analyses, compound words and certain classes of idiomatic expressions and other collocations are also considered to be part of the lexicon. Dictionaries represent attempts at listing, in alphabetical order, the lexicon of a given language; usually, however, bound morphemes are not included.
Lexicon is a computer-assisted role-playing game invented by Neel Krishnaswami and popularised by the indie role-playing game community. As originally proposed, it is played online using wiki software. Players assume the role of scholars who write the history and background of a particular fictitious time, setting, or incident. As the game goes on, the players collaboratively create an elaborately interwoven account.
Each game is a series of 26 turns, keyed to the letters of the alphabet from A to Z. On the first turn, each player must write an Encyclopedia-style entry beginning with the letter A, citing and linking to two entries that are not yet written. These are called "undefined" entries. Undefined entries must begin with a letter later in the alphabet.
The 25 subsequent turns proceed consecutively through the letters of the alphabet, one letter per turn. In a turn, each player writes one entry that begins with the turn's specified letter. If one or more undefined entries are available that begin with the letter, a player must choose and write an undefined entry before any new entries can be created under that letter. A new entry must create and link to two undefined entries, and must also link to an entry written on a previous turn. Near the endgame, when sufficient undefined entries exist to occupy all players for the remainder of the game, no new undefined entries may be created.
Many variants exist, such as covering two or three letters per turn, or starting each player on a different letter. Some games permit other players to post comments or expansions of earlier entries. The optional "Rule of X" treats X (or any other appropriate letter) as a wild card; entries for the X turn may begin with any letter. "Telephone pad" is a shorter variant with 8 turns (corresponding to the letters on a telephone keypad) instead of 26 turns (one per letter of the alphabet).
Lexicon was a text editor / word processor MS-DOS program that was extremely popular in the Soviet Union and Russia at the end of 1980s and in 1990s. Some estimate that Lexicon was illegally installed on 95% of all Russian PCs. The last version for MS-DOS was 3.0. Later Windows versions were developed, but they were not popular, due to easily available pirated copies of Microsoft Word.
Lexicon was originally developed at the Computing Center of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR by Ye. N. Veselov.
Lexicon could produce and edit plain text files; at the same time, it could enrich them with various formatting codes (which all started with the character 255 (0xFF)). Lexicon also included a spell checker.
Lexicon supported operations with linear and rectangular blocks; it also had convenient means for drawing tables with box drawing characters.
Lexicon could work with both osnovnaya (primary) and alternativnaya (alternative) character sets. It also included its own screen and printer fonts and keyboard drivers for use with non-russified computers.
The lexicon of a language is its vocabulary.
Lexicon is also a synonym for a dictionary or encyclopedic dictionary, and may also refer to:
- Lexicon (cardgame), a word card game of the 1930s
- Lexicon (company), an audio equipment manufacturer
- Lexicon Branding, a company devoted to inventing names for products
- Lexicon Pharmaceuticals, a biopharmaceutical company
- Lexicon (game), a role-playing game using Wiki software
- Lexicon Gaming Convention, held in Lexington, Kentucky, USA
- Lexicon (mathematics), a real number that is disjunctive to every base
- Lexicon (novel), a 2013 novel by Max Barry
- Lexicon (program), a text editor and word processor
- Lexicon (typeface), a typeface designed by Bram de Does
- Lexicon, the home planet of WordGirl, star of an educational TV show
- DLR Lexicon, a building in Dún Laoghaire, Ireland
- Lex Icon, a stage name used by Norwegian black metal musician Stian Arnesen (AKA Nagash)
Lexicon is an American company that engineers, manufactures and markets audio equipment as a brand of Harman International Industries (HII), with offices in Salt Lake City. Originally founded in 1971 and headquartered in Waltham, Mass., the company was acquired by HII in 1993.
Lexicon traces its history to the 1969 founding of American Data Sciences by MIT professor Dr. Francis F. Lee and engineer Chuck Bagnaschi, developers of digital audio devices for medical heart monitoring.
The company is widely known as the OEM developer of the multi-speaker audio system for the Rolls-Royce Phantom — as well as the Hyundai Genesis, Hyundai Equus and Kia K900.
Usage examples of "lexicon".
Then there was a small library of other books, including a medical lexicon published in London and an almanac beginning at the year 1731, the Holy Bible, ink, pens and writing paper, a box of watercolours and brushes, reams of fine-quality drawing paper, knitting needles and wool, a roll of soft tanned leather from which to make the uppers for footwear- the soles would be cut from buffalo rawhide.
By correlating the images of the echo-carvings with the number markings below them, Broadtail believes he can create a lexicon for the ancient city builders.
Scapula, Hederic, and Lexicon, the principal Dictionaries in use for studying Greek.
It had no lexicon of legalisms extracted from the law reports in which judicial usage lies in a world apart from the ordinary affairs of life.
I do not know whether there are more morphemes in the language of Priest-Kings or in English, but both are apparently rich languages, and, of course, the strict morpheme count is not necessarily a reliable index to the complexity of the lexicon, because of combinations of morphemes wo form new words.
When he connected me to the modem, his goal was to supplement my technical knowledge of speech -- phonemes, morphemes, syntax, lexicon, prosody, discourse -- with a broad-based knowledge of semantics.
The Americanization of the education system was revealed in the emergence of a new lexicon of borrowed terms.
The Complutensian Polyglot, as it was thence named, was published in six volumes, four devoted to the Old Testament, one to the New Testament, and one to a Hebrew lexicon and grammar.
In Vantassel, Winthrop contrived to possess himself of a Greek lexicon and a Graeca Majora, and also a Greek grammar, though the only one he could get that suited his purse was the Westminster grammar, in which the alternatives of Greek were all Latin.
Waging a running war against the medical establishment, Feaver, like many personal injury attorneys, had absorbed the lexicon of physicians.
Prevention, in its way, was simply a latest subchapter to the one percent doctrine, a public lexicon to, in this case, guide the actions of the lone superpower on the state-to-state terrain.
The three bureaus cooperated closely, but it was largely due to a French genius that within two days they had neutralized the Schliisselheft superencipherment and dismembered much of the lexicon.
When the Musicians built, weaving their walls and floors of sound, they ignored the laws of gravity, the doctrine and dogma of engineering, denying the old lexicon and establishing their own dictionary of the possible.
Mancate Semhians, stumbling across portmanteaux crammed with lexicons and dictionaries and other tubes of the voice of Hermes, takes possession of berths in the ship Polypheme, bound, as they mutually conceive, for the biggest adventure ever embarked on by a far-thoughted, high-thoughted, patriotic pair speaking pure Saxon or other.
Christopher Gilson, analyzing the entire poem in light of the almost contemporaneous Qenya Lexicon, concluded that náre may mean "it is" (VT40:31).