The Physician's Desk Reference has ballooned from a thin volume into something like an unabridged dictionary, with extremely fine print.
Aside from such glaring omissions as a basic camera and external LCD, it does sport a very pocket-friendly design, simplistic style, MP3 playback, an electronic dictionary, questionable e-book functionality, GPS, and 128MB of built-in memory.
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The folks at Digital Cube might not be willing to do something so silly as attach a keyboard to one of their PMPs, but they've apparently done just about everything else to prep this i-Station T43DIC for the exciting life of an electronic dictionary.
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The 2008 book "Perfumes: The A-Z Guide, " by Luca Turin and Tania Sanchez, has become something of an Oxford English Dictionary for scent.
The first minister said the term as defined in the dictionary meant an "overbearing wielder of petty authority" and insisted it was used in public parlance a number of times.
Just try offering a 40% discount on a suit in Belgium, or giving away a free dictionary with an Encyclopedia in France or Austria, and Europe's trading limitations soon become apparent.
How helpful would that dictionary be for interpreting an essay written in Chinese?
Or they use a "dictionary attack, " an elaborate guessing game in which thousands of address combinations are tested for validity.
Professor Nichols will continue to gather information on the language in an ongoing effort to preserve as much as possible - and is planning to publish an interim small Chechen-English dictionary in the summer.
And I learned from the Above The Law comments earlier this week that someone has created an entry for it in the Urban Dictionary.
So that people avoid becoming the butt of jokes, Collins English Dictionary advises against using literally as an intensifier in formal or written contexts.
It is not just that she is erudite (which she is), or that an outlandish word will send her to the dictionary (which it will).
When one comes across an unfamiliar word, it is customary to consult a dictionary for illumination of the meaning of the unfamiliar term.
My Oxford English Dictionary, however, does define nuisance as "an annoyance" or "an obnoxious practice".
According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the word has now come to mean an expression of excited approval.
To illustrate by way of analogy: imagine creating a dictionary of French words defined in English to interpret an essay written in French.
The law restricted native Irish filmmakers who wanted to wholly portray everyday life in Ireland on an international stage, wrote Roderick Flynn and Patrick Brereton in the Historical Dictionary of Irish Cinema.
The students learned that they would each receive a Scrabble dictionary to check their work, after which they would fill out an answer sheet to report their performance.
Newton's projected dictionary of what he called "World English" would acknowledge that an Australian might say he needed a dunny, while a British person wanted a loo and an American, a toilet.
Other goodies here include a three megapixel camera (a nice bump over the two megapixel shooters found on the IM-R100 and IM U-MU110), PictBridge support for PC-less printing, MP3 playback enhanced by four-channel stereo speakers and an FM transmitter, plus that popular Korean add-on, the electronic dictionary.
If you look it up in the dictionary, one definition for the word has it as a synonym for an underhand plot or conspiracy.
Borlase's document, called Memorandums of the Cornish Tongue, from 1750, is described as an "early example of a Cornish grammar and vocabulary study which resembles a Cornish dictionary".
"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.
His nearly 100 patented creations include a dictionary, a train-switching system and, most recently, a service that turns an ordinary pager into a personal security device.
Ian Brookes, consultant editor at Collins English Dictionary, agrees the figurative and metaphorical use of the word crept into the English language as an intensifier.
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