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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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Telephone books are, like dictionaries, already out of date the moment they are printed....
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― The Phone Book: The Curious History of the Book That Everyone Uses But No One Reads
― The Phone Book: The Curious History of the Book That Everyone Uses But No One Reads
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Human suffering has been caused because too many of us cannot grasp that words are only tools for our use.
The mere presence in the dictionary of a word like 'living' does not mean it necessarily has to refer to something definite in the real world.
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― The Selfish Gene
― The Selfish Gene
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