Each entry is glossed in the briefest possible way consistent Move out from core items to those that are more peripheral to the senses of the Tom, eldest/largest-youngest/smallest: there Within each article entries are arranged alphabetically where that is an appropriate sense-progression such as life-death, top-bot. Such nested items are related in sense, but not necessarily interchangeable: they are listed alphabetically, and any item moved to the back of such a list may be considered an inferior match.Īrticles are arranged in a single alphabetical sequence through the dictionary. Symposium and colloquium) are nested together in a singleĮntry within the appropriate concept article. Gardening), and items sharing a single definition (such as agent and Items sharing^ key concept will be found as entries within the article devoted to thatĬoncept (so entries for topiary, spudder, and trug will all be found in the The cabinet minister's tonguetip has of course a different population from the schoolboy's, and the diversity of the 31,000 listed items takes this into account but words from specialist vocabularies have been omitted, as have core vocabulary words such as dog and family which are usually immediately available to any native speaker. The Oxford Reverse Dictionary will guide you to the standard terms for things most people have heard of: it is not an English-learner's dictionary, nor will it help you to literary or archaic words, or to slang colloquialisms are offered only where standard speech offers no workable substitute. is no substitute for coroner This dictionary is designed to solve these problems quickly and efficiently, grouping the tongue-tip terms under their key concepts: so coroner will be found in the article magistrate, reveal at wall, and kriegspiel at both war and fool, We all have words 'on the tip of our tongue', and we all know how hard such words often are to coax back into consciousness, and how bad our speech or writing will look without them: "that bit of the wall that turns into the window" can never really replace reveal without the decorator thinking us aĪnd "the sort of magistrate who conducts inquiries into the causes of indeed, no other term can be.
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