The swimming scum was dead, leaving behind a strong and intelligent population of sixteen hundred people. Video games like “Gran Turismo®4” and “Guitar Hero” have used his riffs. Not that Shakespeare`s riff is limited to novels. This search retrieves entries where the bird OR mammal appears in the definition AND where Australia is present. In other words, the search is in parentheses as (bird OR mammal) AND Australia, indicating that Operation Gold should be performed first. You can override this default order by selecting the desired order in the pane to the right of the Advanced Search form. This is the type of dictionary text you are looking for in an advanced search. You select your search scope from the list box to the right of the search field, which is replaced by the full text. Discover the most common sources that can be cited as sample sentences in the dictionary. The couple is torn apart over the pink slime, the New World Order and even the Christmas™ War. To search through A-Z dictionary entries, similar to a printed dictionary: if you look at a typical entry, you will notice that it is divided into different sections. In addition to the main definition text for each direction of the entry, there is often information about spelling variants, etymology, quotations, etc. By default, an advanced search searches for the entire text of entries, but you can narrow your search field to a number of other domains if you prefer.
This colloquial term for 17th century “dictionary,” based on the similarity of the first syllable of that word to the company name Dick (Dick n.1), is a laborious pun that gained enough traction to last over 200 years and even cross the Atlantic before eventually becoming obsolete. The 1761 quote in the OED entry comes from a long joke in which an ignorant servant sent to borrow a dictionary (probably pronounced with elision of the second and third syllables) interprets the word as a man`s first and last name, but politely asks Mr. Richard Snary rather than the more familiar “Dick.” Much of the evidence found by OED researchers seems humorous with confidence; It is thought that those who have used the term would have been happy to be asked what it means to have the excuse to deliver what is essentially a joke with an etymological punchline. The results of a quick search are the main entries. Advanced search? is a quick way to broaden your search to phrases, definitions, etymologies, or full text. Click on one of the text boxes (e.g. » Definitions) to see the corresponding results. The word wheel with the heading “Go to:” contains the list of all dictionary entries. It always opens with the last entry displayed, which is highlighted in the middle of the list. Click any entry to view it. We`ve been a bit overstimulated by the design here without thinking how clumsy it might be to pull it out, so definitely reef our idea. He was a classically trained pianist who also created some of the most distinctive guitar riffs in rock history.
Quick search finds the most important dictionary entries such as alphabet, pause, xylophone. It also finds phrases and compounds listed in the main entries, such as for search or alphabet, and various spellings such as dictionaries. At the time of the OED`s first publication, the prefix SI exa- (International System of Units) (which designates a factor of 1018 or one trillion in the names of units of measurement) did not yet exist. Now that it is included in the dictionary, its etymology deserves to be highlighted. Based on the coincidence that the prefix tera- kamm. The form (derived from a Greek word for “monster” and corresponding to 1012 or 10004) is only one letter away from the Tetra comb. Form (four), the higher-order SI prefixes were formed by changing the roots corresponding to the factor by which they exceed 1000. In the case of the peta comb. Form (1015 or 10005), pentarest. The form (from Greek for five) has been changed by deleting the letter “n”; Exa- (10006) comes from hexa-comb.
Form (from Greek for six), amended by deleting the “h”. The scale represented by exa- is so large that it is rarely found in everyday life. Most of the evidence for the use of the prefix in OED files lies in the word exabyte, which is equivalent to 1 billion gigabytes. It is estimated that all digital information created and duplicated in 2009 was about 800 exabytes, which can be viewed as a stack of DVDs going from Earth to the Moon and back. He kept singing, but now we`ve “played” the guitar riff with our vocals. The historical thesaurus can be used in OED Online to navigate the dictionary by theme, find related terms, and explore the lexical history of a concept or meaning. If you`re not sure what form your phrase might appear in the dictionary, consider an advanced search for more than one term (e.g., humble cake). A surprise of this range was the fecundity of Riff n.5 (and Riff v.1) in producing new names related to the reading of catchy musical phrases. In addition to Riffage, this update also contains new entries for the quirky Riffola n. and the Retro rifferama n. These words entered the English language amid an explosion of popular music journalism in the second half of the twentieth century, shaped by critics who apparently felt limited by the predictability of n`s riffs. The three new entries are just the tip of a neologue iceberg: the OED files also include examples from Riffery, Riffdom, Riffmongery and Riffology, among others, that could be considered for future updates.
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