To illustrate by way of analogy: imagine creating a dictionary of French words defined in English to interpret an essay written in French.
All that remains of her language is a short passage and a dictionary of a thousand and twelve words listed in hierarchical order, from the most important (Aigonz, God) to the least (Cauiz, cricket).
Aside from the relative ease with which attackers guess passwords, once they have stolen the list of usernames and hashed ( a one-way algorithm used to hide data) passwords, the attacker just checks a dictionary of hashed words against the hashed passwords to find matches.
Drives shriveled down to desk size, then to desktop size, then the size of a fat dictionary, followed by a thin paperback, a deck of cards and now just a single card or chip.
When one comes across an unfamiliar word, it is customary to consult a dictionary for illumination of the meaning of the unfamiliar term.
The Lonely Planet Chinese Translator app is similar but has the advantage of being entirely offline with a dictionary tailored to the needs of travelers.
The most recent edition of the Oxford Concise Dictionary of First Names included a clutch of neo-names such as Bijou, Gobnat, Beige, Raven, Karma and Zenith.
"Researchers are committed to a long term study of HSL with the goals of producing ... a dictionary (and) archived videotaped data, " s aid James Woodward, an Adjunct Professor of Linguistics at the University of Hawaii at Mano.
Wallace's name never made it into a dictionary, but some of his quotable remarks have survived.
The third element is the frequent use of a dictionary to eliminate misunderstandings.
However you come down on these questions, the Encarta World English Dictionary is a lot of fun to browse.
Who would have thought the story of a dictionary could be so absorbing?
His research is included in a book entitled the New Dictionary of Popular Legal Errors, published last week.
She searched the library where she worked for anything related to Wales, but all she could find was a dictionary, and a copy of the movie Hedd Wyn.
Out of it a new lexicon was born: the American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, published in 1969.
This longer version first appears in William Mares' 1968 book Marine Machine, a non-fiction account of a platoon's basic training, according to Jonathan Lighter's Historical Dictionary of American Slang.
His massive dictionary is something of a game, when all is said, as are the tourist phrasebooks and the Finnish broadcasts.
According to the Oxford English Dictionary, barista is a word of Italian origin that refers to a "person who makes and serves coffee in a coffee bar".
Robert L. Mack, Gray's definitive biographer, has observed that a recent edition of the Oxford Dictionary of Quotations draws from 15 stanzas and reproduces 13 of them whole.
The most common passwords on Christian blogging site Faithwriters included words like jesuschrist, heaven, christ, and blessed, all easy enough to guess for a hacker to guess or even easier to find with a dictionary attack that cycles through millions of word variants.
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The best a single-volume dictionary can hope to do is offer up a tantalizing smorgasbord of lexical tidbits.
First-time buyers will not find a more reliable, comprehensive or enjoyable dictionary of English.
The value of this key is a dictionary with the appropriate values describing the navigation bar your app has at startup.
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It's all a long way from the days of the dictionary's founder, academic Sir James Murray, who was commissioned by the Philological Society of London.
The Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary has no record of such a word.
Kindle also comes with a built-in dictionary, instant lookup and translation of words, Real Page Numbers, support for bookmarks and annotations, and more.
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Even now, Sheffield University's Centre for English Cultural Tradition and Language, home of the three editors of this dictionary, is recording a newly dying trade, mining.
As I listened, I thought the entire lot of them needed a little help from my dictionary.
For example, it will soon be able to handle a translation of a plaque at a historical site, something which would be much harder to do using just a dictionary.
Thus the Oxford English Dictionary explains one of the most basic institutions in a modern economy.
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