And then they're not alone, and they can look it up in the dictionary together.
Nowhere in the dictionary does it say that patience equals time standing still.
The AHA also publishes a magazine called Zymurgy -- the first word in brewing and, ironically, the last word in the dictionary.
"Literally is one of those language bugbears, so we print a special note in the dictionary to advise on the problem, " says Brookes.
If you look it up in the dictionary, one definition for the word has it as a synonym for an underhand plot or conspiracy.
In a sinister ironic climax, his boss, a police captain with a sadistic intellectual bent, pins him to the meaning of words looked up in the dictionary.
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.
As for advising governments of emerging economies how best to structure their legal systems, various essays in the dictionary stress the importance of clear property rights, and of ensuring that these are marketable.
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But what, again, I think we should be focused on--the only place--when people keep saying self-esteem, self-esteem and self-esteem, self-image, self-image, self-esteem, the only place that self-esteem and self-image comes before work is in the dictionary.
Alan Simpson is a flinty Wyoming truth-teller -- (laughter) -- if you look in the dictionary it says "flinty, " and then it's got Simpson's picture. (Laughter.) Through nearly two decades in the United States Senate, he earned a reputation for putting common sense and the people's welfare ahead of petty politics.
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The updated definition will be added in the online version of the dictionary this year, and in the next printed edition next year.
Of the 65, 000 words in the English dictionary, most English-speakers will only use 5-6, 000, Sheedy said.
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It has since become such a part of popular parlance that it is defined in the Urban Dictionary.
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"To be told in my own country I can't use a word in the English dictionary - it's nonsense, " said Mr McColghan.
And I learned from the Above The Law comments earlier this week that someone has created an entry for it in the Urban Dictionary.
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.
Melnyk, a cabinet maker by day, calls himself the "skishin' magician, " and boasts that the word "skishing" is now found in the Microsoft Encarta dictionary.
It first entered the Collins English dictionary in 2005 with the definition "the tense final stages of a league competition, especially from the point of view of the leaders".
That button also lets you buy the book (in the case of a sample), skip to a specific page, bookmark, look up a word in the including Collins dictionary, view the book's table of contents, and adjust the font size -- there are eight font sizes in all.
Good news for fans of the New Oxford American: that's precisely the dictionary you get if you join Team Sony (though you can also go in for the good, old Oxford English Dictionary, or four other foreign language options, even).
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From there, you can add a note, look up words in The New Oxford American Dictionary, translate through Bing translation or share passages on Facebook or Twitter.
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.
The contents of the userInfo dictionary for PKPassLibraryDidChangeNotification have changed in the case of removed passes.
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The bell may have tolled for the term when it was added to the Merriam Webster dictionary in 2006, or maybe two years later when Mitt Romney uttered the word on the campaign trail.
By the time the Oxford English Dictionary was completed, in 1928, the number had burgeoned to 414, 825.
In September the Oxford University Press brought out the first isiZulu-English dictionary in more than 40 years.
Avoid using actual words, because password-cracking software can run through the entire dictionary in less than a minute.
His research is included in a book entitled the New Dictionary of Popular Legal Errors, published last week.
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