 The idea being given, to find the word, or words, by which that idea may be most fitly and aptly expressed. For this purpose, the words and phrases of the language are here classed, not according to their sound or their orthography, but strictly according...  The Eclectic Review - Side 621redigert av - 1852Uten tilgangsbegrensning - Om denne boken
 | Allen Kent, Harold Lancour, Jay E. Daily - 1980 - 510 sider
...he did not set out to provide a dictionary but a structure of concepts in which: ... the idea being given, to find the word or words by which that idea...of the language are here classed, not according to their sound or their orthography, but strictly according to their signification. The use of a thesaurus... | |
 | E. D. Dym - 1985 - 518 sider
...he did not set out to provide a dictionary but a structure of concepts in which: ... the idea being given, to find the word or words by which that idea...of the language are here classed, not according to their sound or their orthography, but strictly according to their signification. The use of a thesaurus... | |
 | Kennosuke Ezawa - 2002 - 482 sider
...English Words and Phrases" (1852). Its aim, as the author put it in the preface, was: "The idea being given, to find the word, or words, by which that idea may be most fitly and aptly expressed" (after Kay 1994: 69). Dictionaries of (cumulated) synonyms, which also present themselves in alphabetical... | |
 | Werner Hüllen - 2003 - 426 sider
...object aimed at in the present undertaking is exactly the converse of this; namely, — The idea being given to find the word, or words, by which that idea may be most fitly and aptly expressed, (p. v) The model authors mentioned later in the introduction point in the same lexicographical direction:... | |
 | Randy Allen Harris - 2004 - 624 sider
...object aimed at in the present undertaking is exactly the converse of this: namely, — The idea being given, to find the word, or words, by which that idea may be most fitly and aptly expressed. (1925: xiii) This last line offers as precise a definition of the purpose behind lexical selection... | |
 | Joshua C. Kendall - 2008 - 312 sider
...Thesaurus would be a reverse dictionary. In his introduction, he explained how it worked: "The idea being given, to find the word, or words by which that idea may be most fitly and aptly expressed." Here's the beginning of the entry for "perfection": (650) PERFECTION, perfectness, bestness, indefectibility,... | |
 | 1918 - 260 sider
...not in alphabetical order . . . but according to the ideas they express. . . Object: the idea, being given, to find the word or words by which that idea may be most fitly and aptly expressed." — Preface. This serves as an excellent dictionary of synonyms and antonyms. A 434 Soule, Richard.... | |
 | Charles Hodge, Lyman Hotchkiss Atwater - 1854 - 768 sider
...object aimed at in the present undertaking, is exactly the converse of this ; namely, the idea being given, to find the word or words by which that idea may be most fitly and aptly expressed." This, surely, would seem to be a very mechanical conception of the process of composition ; and to... | |
 | 1901 - 374 sider
...dictionary is simply to explain the meaning of words, the object of this book is, namely : the idea being given to find the word or words, by which that idea may be most fitly and aptly expressed. The words are grouped by association, in alphabetical order, thus furnishing on every topic an ample... | |
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