Thursday 11 July 2013

Dictionary - A Definition

A language (also known as a wordstock, term referrals, wordbook, language, or vocabulary) is a selection of conditions in one or more particular 'languages', often detailed alphabetically (or by extreme and action for ideographic languages), with utilization details, explanations, etymologies, phonetics, pronunciations, and other information;[1] or a guide of conditions in one language with their counterparts in another, also known as a language. According to Nielsen (2008) a language may be considered as a lexicographical item that is classified by three important features: (1) it has been ready for one or more functions; (2) it contains information that have been chosen for the objective of satisfying those functions; and (3) its lexicographic components weblink and set up connections between the information so that they can fulfill the needs of customers and fulfill the functions of the language.

A wide difference is made between common and particular dictionaries. Specialized dictionaries do not contain details about conditions that are used in language for common purposes—words used by common people in daily circumstances. Sentence products that explain ideas in particular areas are usually known as conditions instead of conditions, although there is no agreement whether lexicology and language are two different areas of research. Theoretically, common dictionaries are expected to be semasiological, applying term to meaning, while particular dictionaries are expected to be onomasiological, first determining ideas and then developing the conditions used to assign them. In exercise, the two techniques are used for both kinds. There are other kinds of dictionaries that don't fit nicely in the above difference, for example multilingual (translation) dictionaries, dictionaries of alternatives (thesauri), or rhyming dictionaries. The phrase language (unqualified) is usually recognized to make mention of a monolingual general-purpose language.

A different sizing on which dictionaries (usually just general-purpose ones) are sometimes recognized is whether they are prescriptive or illustrative, the latter being in concept mostly based on language corpus studies—this is the case of most contemporary dictionaries. However, this difference cannot be upheld in the most stringent feeling. The choice of headwords is considered itself of prescriptive nature; for example, dictionaries prevent having too many taboo conditions in that place.

Stylistic signs (e.g. ‘informal’ or ‘vulgar’) existing in many contemporary dictionaries is considered less than logically illustrative as well.
Although the first documented dictionaries go back to Sumerian times (these were multilingual dictionaries), the methodical research of dictionaries as things of technological interest themselves is a 20th-century business, known as lexicography, and mostly started by Ladislav Zgusta.[3] The beginning of the new self-discipline was not without debate, the realistic dictionary-makers being sometimes charged of "astonishing" deficiency of technique and critical-self representation.

UrduEnglishDictionary.org is site which let you translate Urdu words in English and English words in Urdu.

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