lexicographer in English

noun
1
a person who compiles dictionaries.
Contributors range from in-house lexicographers and editors to consultants whose specialist subjects include science, business and finance, law, education, religion and pharmacology.
noun
    lexicologist

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1. 4 Whenever a lexicographer obtains an entry for review and/or editing, the entry is marked as belonging to that particular lexicographer.

2. 5 The lexicographer knew that the English lexis was changing.

3. 6 And they spoke the English that the lexicographer loved.

4. 7 The lexicographer knew that the English lexis was changing.

5. 11 As a lexicographer he is in a class by himself.

6. 28 Knowledge is more than equivalent to force---Samuel Johnson, English lexicographer.

7. 20 The disk storage available is defined by the System Supervisor for each lexicographer.

8. 18 Blom's fluent command of languages was invaluable in his work as a lexicographer.

9. 14 You're a lexicographer , which means you've got this third ear and third eye l already mentioned.

10. After graduation, he worked as a lexicographer for the Oxford English Dictionary supplement for three years.

11. The current flag was designed by Stepan Malkhasyants, an Armenian lexicographer, linguist, academician, and philologist.

12. 19 They will carry out the procedures initiated by the Lexicographer Group on instruction from the Computer Group.

13. Lexicographer Kory Stamper Anatomizes each term with all the relish of objectivity, delving into each word's historical origins and evolution …

14. 16 According to one lexicographer, the Greek noun translated “honor” (ti·meʹ) means “price, value, honour, respect.”

15. 1 The lexicographer will be informed of the results of any investigation and the proposed action.

16. 27 This attitude was quite common in Johnson's day and was not contradictory to the lexicographer himself.

17. 25 "It has both currency and potential longevity," said Christine Lindberg, senior lexicographer for Oxford's US dictionary program, in a statement.

18. 13 In his entire work, the lexicographer is guided by the practical considerations of a dictionary user.

19. 23 In the determination of the central meaning of a polysemous word the lexicographer is helped by historical linguistics.

20. According to a lexicographer, it means “to cause one inward commotion, . . . to affect with great pain or sorrow.”

21. 22 To clarify some grammatical doubts, the young wrote to H. Fowler, the lexicographer who produced the "Concise English Dictionary".

22. 12 Here the lexicographer has to be his own linguist and have recourse to the linguistic analysis of the language.

23. 16 The slightly later and opposing tradition is that of the lexicographer as the objective observer and recorder of language.

24. 2 Additional reports e.g. showing approved entries and responsible lexicographer, will be produced within one working day when required.

25. 17 The Working-Set database contains the current units of work taken, by request of the lexicographer, from the Main Database.

26. 7 Samuel Johnson, English writer and lexicographer (1709-, was once taken to task by a woman for recording "improper" words in his dictionary.

27. 15 Now, one of the non-perks of being a lexicographer is that people don't usually have a kind of warm, fuzzy, snuggly image of the dictionary.

28. 3 Any lexicographer may obtain entry text for read only or for proofing regardless of ownership or the status of the on-loan flag.

29. 21 Life is not long, and too much of it must not pass in idle deliberation how it shall be spent---Samuel Johnson, British lexicographer.

30. 9 In Britain, a lexicographer (dictionary author) named Samuel Johnson, who lived in the 18th century, coined the word "gray" and supported its use.

31. 26 I called up an expert on language for some insight into this issue: Jesse Sheidlower, lexicographer and editor at large of the Oxford English Dictionary.

32. ( somewhere through the ages some lexicographer did away with the double 'hea' and further surgery carried out resulted to "Beheafde" and later "Behead".)

33. 8 The lexicographer told the New York Times that "It's easy to stack the deck by finding a definition that does or does not highlight a nuance that you're interested in.

34. 10 Laurence Urdang, a prolific lexicographer who had a hand in more than 100 dictionaries and other reference books, died on Thursday in Branford, Conn. He was 81 and lived in Old Lyme,[www.Sentencedict.com] Conn.

35. 24 This was something supported not only by the American lexicographer Noah Webster but by figures like Jefferson and Adams so there was no question of declaring an official language.

36. The lexicographer told the New York Times that "It's easy to stack the deck by finding a definition that does or does not highlight a nuance that you're interested in.

37. Accruer clause What does Accruer clause mean in American Law? The definition of Accruer clause in the law of the United States, as defined by the lexicographer Arthur Leff in his legal dictionary is:

38. British lexicographer Samuel Johnson also offered up that etymology in his 1755 Dictionary of the English Language, in which he defined Bonfire as "a fire made for some publick cause of triumph or

39. Bloviate (v.) 1857, American English, a Midwestern word for "to talk aimlessly and boastingly; to indulge in 'high falutin'," according to Farmer (1890), who seems to have been the only British lexicographer to notice it

40. What does Breviate mean in American Law? The definition of Breviate in the law of the United States, as defined by the lexicographer Arthur Leff in his legal dictionary is: A short statement or abstract, especially one accompanying a bill in parliament; also a brief

41. What does Butted And Bounded mean in American Law? The definition of Butted And Bounded in the law of the United States, as defined by the lexicographer Arthur Leff in his legal dictionary is: An old conveyancing term introducing the land description, meaning in effect “ended and surrounded” as in “Butted and bounded on the east by

42. Y Brython A monthly non-denominational Welsh language periodical that published articles on literature, antiquities and folklore, The periodical was edited by the pharmacist, writer and printer, Robert Isaac Jones (Alltud Eifion, 1815-1905), between June and October 1858 and 1860-1863, with the lexicographer Daniel Silvan Evans (1818-1903), taking over as editor