The Collaborative International Dictionary
Vocabulary \Vo*cab"u*la*ry\ (v[-o]*k[a^]b"[-u]*l[asl]*r[y^]), n.; pl. Vocabularies. [LL. vocabularium, vocabularius: cf. F. vocabulaire. See Vocable.] 1. A list or collection of words arranged in alphabetical order and explained; a dictionary or lexicon, either of a whole language, a single work or author, a branch of science, or the like; a word-book.
Note: The ``vocabulary'' of this dictionary referred to within the definitions of certain collocations are those words serving as headwords for main entries, and distinguished from word combinations (``collocations'') which follow the main part of certain entries. In the XML-tagged version, these headwords are marked by the tags
Wiktionary
n. (plural of vocabulary English)
Usage examples of "vocabularies".
The solution is to reconstruct the vocabularies of vanished ancient languages (so-called protolanguages) by comparing vocabularies of modern languages derived from them.
Hanif was in perfect control of the languages that mattered: sociological, socialistic, black--radical, anti--anti-- anti--racist, demagogic, oratorical, sermonic: the vocabularies of power.
I thank you for the little vocabularies of Bedais, Jankawis and Teghas.
I have now been thirty years availing myself of every possible opportunity of procuring Indian vocabularies to the same set of words: my opportunities were probably better than will ever occur again to any person having the same desire.
I am the more concerned at this accident, as of the two hundred and fifty words of my vocabularies, and the one hundred and thirty words of the great Russian vocabularies of the languages of the other quarters of the globe, severty-three were common to both, and would have furnished materials for a comparison from which something might have resulted.
He was furnished with a number of printed vocabularies of the same words and form I had used, with blank spaces for the Indian words.
When these local vocabularies are published and digested together into a single one, it is probable we shall find that there is not a word in Shakspeare which is not now in use in some of the counties in England, from whence we may obtain its true sense.
We've got adjustment vocabularies for each entrance year, and historical and cultural summaries.
But the vocabularies of such languages are extremely limited, perhaps only a few dozen words.
Not only are there chimpanzees with working vocabularies of 100 to 200 words.
Chimpanzees are already accomplished in vocabularies exceeding 10 percent of that number.
Both the Austronesian and the Papuan languages of the region show massive influences of each other's vocabularies and grammars, making it difficult to decide whether certain languages are basically Austronesian languages influenced by Papuan ones or the reverse.
Both the Austronesian and the Papuan languages of the region show massive influences of each other’s vocabularies and grammars, making it difficult to decide whether certain languages are basically Austronesian languages influenced by Papuan ones or the reverse.
As Gibreel (with something like relish) described positions, love--bites, the secret vocabularies of desire, they strolled in Brickhall Fields among schoolgirls and roller-- skating infants and fathers throwing boomerangs and frisbees incompetently at scornful sons, and picked their way through broiling horizontal secretarial flesh.
Both languages, as spoken by the other species, were refined to somewhat limited vocabularies that fortunately could be extended into quite a few technical areas: such as space travel, basic engine design, biological and meteorological sciences, metallurgy and mining.