Crossword clues for vocabulary
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1530s, "list of words with explanations," from Medieval Latin vocabularium "a list of words," from Latin vocabulum "word, name, noun," from vocare "to name, call" (see voice (n.)). Meaning "range of words in the language of a person or group" is first attested 1753.
Wiktionary
n. 1 A usually alphabetized and explained collection of words e.g. of a particular field, or prepared for a specific purpose, often for learning. 2 The collection of words a person knows and uses. 3 The stock of words used in a particular field. 4 The words of a language collectively. 5 A range of artistic or stylistic forms or techniques
WordNet
n. a listing of the words used in some enterprise
a language user's knowledge of words [syn: lexicon, mental lexicon]
the system of techniques or symbols serving as a means of expression (as in arts or crafts); "he introduced a wide vocabulary of techniques"
Wikipedia
A person's vocabulary is the set of words within a language that are familiar to that person. A vocabulary usually develops with age, and serves as a useful and fundamental tool for communication and acquiring knowledge. Acquiring an extensive vocabulary is one of the largest challenges in learning a second language.
Vocabulary is the debut album of British new wave group Europeans. It was released on LP in September 1983; no CD version is available yet.
Usage examples of "vocabulary".
Laura Bridgman, will invariably understand only a small part of the vocabulary of their language, and will not articulate correctly.
The words flowed in a steady stream as he developed a vocabulary rich with Anxiety Board, Autosynthesis, Cohibition, Counterrhythmic Drag, Integrant and Super-Integrant.
By the time Frank woke up the next morning, Hask had substantially increased his vocabulary.
The vocabulary of emotion dissipated as it submitted to the lexicographical police action of Orientalist science and even Orientalist art.
Working from the vocabulary we accumulated when doing our sapience tests, and from basic number identification, we were able, using computers, to compile a lexicographical profile of Actual Fuzzy from the keys found in Zarathustran Fuzzy.
The words were among the few in his own paltry vocabulary of sign language, words he in fact had signed to her earlier in the evening.
Flocculence and Binding Force dropped sondes into the sludgy atmosphere and painfully built up a slow recognition of discrete sounds that was the first step toward a vocabulary.
And then there is a whole other addition there to turn someone who has working knowledge of the popular language into a cryptolinguist, which is the specialized vocabulary.
It is perhaps a certain uneasy consciousness of danger, a suspicion that weakness of soul cannot wield these strong words, that makes debility avoid them, committing itself rather, as if by some pre-established affinity, to the vaguer Latinised vocabulary.
Only a superficial view could attach importance to words, phrases, even vocabularies, or to quaint social customs that the receiving race may adopt from the newcomers in the process of assimilating them.
He goes at his task with an almost alarming linguistic energy, a Burgessy splatter of vocabulary, and a ferocious love of everything comic and grotesque.
He had tried hard to avoid homonyms, wanting to reserve the confusion of words that sounded alike but meant different things until they shared a larger vocabulary.
My own attention, so perfunctory at first that I scarcely realised that this was the vocabulary no longer of geology but of meteorology, was completely held in the end.
Her world was four and a half billion years old, and she had a vocabulary newly full of strike-slip faults, cactoliths, andesite, and monzonite, and she made tilting slipping shapes with her hands to show us how the mountains came about.
Each family of linear plasmids contains variations on a set of closely associated genes, like sentences built from the same small vocabulary, but there are also rogue genes distributed randomly among all the families.