(18) Acute came from acus, Latin for needle, later denoting pointed things, so cute at first meant “acute, clever, keen-witted, sharp, shrewd”, according to the 1933 edition of the Oxford English Dictionary, which doesn’t suggest the term could describe visual appearance.

(17) Post-truth has now been included in, and editors will monitor its future usage to see if it will be included in future editions of the Oxford English Dictionary.

(16) Merkel’s office has not commented on her dictionary nomination so far, though they might arguably have been able to insist the word was rude or discriminatory, on the same grounds that the nominated word “Alpha Kevin”, meaning the “thickest person of all” was removed from Langenscheidt list, after a reported spate of complaints from people called Kevin, or their parents.

(15) Every couple of minutes brought forth another word from the No-Turning-Back dictionary: 'hard', 'determined', 'secure'.(14) The dictionary defines colonialism as one country taking control of another to exploit its resources or people.(13) The data obtained in the investigation indicate that the term has acquired a specific connotation within the international nursing context and that specific defined attributes distinguishes it from the broad and general definition found in standard dictionaries.(12) The Urban Dictionary defines hipsters as “a subculture of men and women, typically in their 20s and 30s, that value independent thinking, counter-culture, progressive politics”.(11) Measures of the acceptability of employee drug testing were obtained from a sample of college students (N = 371) and a second sample of nontraditional, older college students (N = 112) and were correlated with job-analysis data from the Position Analysis Questionnaire (PAQ) and Dictionary of Occupational Titles (DOT) databases, and with measures of perceived danger from impaired performance in each job.(10) Tony Abbott’s threat to “shirtfront” the Russian president during an international summit this month has prompted a dictionary to broaden its definition of the word beyond its Aussie rules meaning.(9) According to Samuel Lewis's 19th-century Topographical Dictionary of Wales, 'several females' drowned while bathing there.(8) Its dictionary definition is “a Scots word meaning scrotum, in Scots vernacular a term of endearment but in English could be taken as an insult”.(7) Unstructured speech samples from 20 institutionalized and 20 noninstitutionalized retarded children were employed using the computerized General Inquirer System and the Harvard III Psychosociological Dictionary.(6) Despite the dictionary definition of 'craving' (a strong desire), two studies indicate that a substantial percentage of persons with alcohol and drug problems use the word 'craving' to mean any desire or urge, even a weak one, to use substances.(5) The dictionary was able to record all the morbidity clinically seen with these three treatment schemes.(4) Our Feature Dictionary supports phrase equivalents for features, feature interactions, feature classifications, and translations to the binary features generated by the expert during knowledge creation.(3) In the era of Donald Trump and Brexit, Oxford Dictionaries has declared “post-truth” to be its international word of the year.

(2) Finally, the authors used the US Department of Labor Dictionary of Occupational Titles to obtain characterizations of the physical demands and knee-bending stress associated with occupations and to study the relation between physical demands of jobs and osteoarthritis of the knee.(1) The likes of almond, blackberry and crocus first made way for analogue, block graph and celebrity in the Oxford Junior Dictionary in 2007, with protests at the time around the loss of a host of religious words such as bishop, saint and sin.(n.) Hence, a book containing the words belonging to any system or province of knowledge, arranged alphabetically as, a dictionary of medicine or of botany a biographical dictionary.(n.) A book containing the words of a language, arranged alphabetically, with explanations of their meanings a lexicon a vocabulary a wordbook.

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