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  2. Oxford English Dictionary - Wikipedia

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    The longest entry in the OED2 was for the verb set, which required 60,000 words to describe some 580 senses (430 for the bare verb, the rest in phrasal verbs and idioms). As entries began to be revised for the OED3 in sequence starting from M, the record was progressively broken by the verbs make in 2000, then put in 2007, then run in 2011 with ...

  3. Synonym - Wikipedia

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    A thesaurus or synonym dictionary lists similar or related words; these are often, but not always, synonyms. [15] The word poecilonym is a rare synonym of the word synonym. It is not entered in most major dictionaries and is a curiosity or piece of trivia for being an autological word because of its meta quality as a synonym of synonym.

  4. Lists of Merriam-Webster's Words of the Year - Wikipedia

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    For example, the Word of the Year for 2005, 'integrity', showed that the general public had an immense interest in defining this word amid ethics scandals in the United States government, corporations, and sports. [1] The Word of the Year for 2004, 'blog', was looked up on the Online Dictionary the most as blogs began to influence mainstream ...

  5. Influence - Wikipedia

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    Sphere of influence (astrodynamics), the region around a celestial body in which it is the primary gravitational influence on orbiting objects Sphere of influence (black hole) , a region around a black hole in which the gravity of the black hole dominates that of the host galaxy's bulge

  6. Foreign-language influences in English - Wikipedia

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    The article's lead section may need to be rewritten.The reason given is: the current lead (i) contradicts the content of the Word origins section and a prominent figure legend, (ii) contains statements only appearing in the lead (violating WP:LEAD), and (iii) presents statements unsupported by citation (anywhere, violating WP:VERIFY), and thus, (iv) appears to violate WP:ORIGINAL RESEARCH.

  7. Crosslinguistic influence - Wikipedia

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    Crosslinguistic influence (CLI) refers to the different ways in which one language can affect another within an individual speaker. It typically involves two languages that can affect one another in a bilingual speaker. [1] An example of CLI is the influence of Korean on a Korean native speaker who is learning Japanese or French.

  8. Webster's Dictionary - Wikipedia

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    Webster's Dictionary is any of the US English language dictionaries edited in the early 19th century by ... this edition has had substantial influence on Wiktionary.

  9. Vocabulary - Wikipedia

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    Word has a variety of meanings, and our understand of ideas such as vocabulary size differ depending on the definition used. The most common definition equates words with lemmas (the inflected or dictionary form; this includes walk, but not walks, walked or walking). Most of the time lemmas do not include proper nouns (names of people, places ...