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Dictionaries
A dictionary is a collection of words in one or more specific languages, often alphabetically (or by radical and stroke for ideographic languages), with usage of information, definitions, etymologies, phonetics, pronunciations, translation, and other information; or a book of words in one language with their equivalents in another, also known as a lexicon.
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Dictionary, n. A malevolent literacy device for cramping the growth of a language and making it hard and inelastic.
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― The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary
― The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary
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Wake up to think of words… want to walk through pages of meanings, the links in assonance, alliteration, or just simple sense that moves the eye to leap that way to the next-door play of sound and resonance.
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― Percipience: Outside the range of understood sense
― Percipience: Outside the range of understood sense
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