If you want to know the meaning of a word, look it up in thedictionary.
1988, Andrew Radford, chapter 7, inTransformational grammar: a first course, Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, page339:
But what other kind(s) of syntactic information should be included in Lexical Entries? Traditionaldictionaries such as Hornby's (1974)Oxford Advanced Learner'sDictionary of Current English include not onlycategorial information in their entries, but also information about the range ofComplements which a given item permits (this information is represented by the use of a number/letter code).
(preceded bythe) Asynchronic dictionary of a standardised language held to only contain words that are properly part of the language.
(computing) Anassociative array, a data structure where each value is referenced by a particular key, analogous to words and definitions in a dictionary (sense 1).
2011, Jon Galloway, Phil Haack, Brad Wilson,Professional ASP.NET MVC 3:
User callsRouteCollection.GetVirtualPath, passing in aRequestContext, adictionary of values, and an optional route name used to select the correct route to generate the URL.
1866, William Henry Ward,The international day, night, and fog signal telegraph, page12:
By a reference to the followingdictionaried abbreviations, the simplicity and harmony of each sentence will be manifestly apparent; although it does not embrace everything, and could not, as it would be far too voluminous for general use.
2001,The Michigan Alumnus, page25:
Should I use a word that a lot of people use but isn't in the dictionary? Uncle Phil would rather get a root canal than say he was scrapbooking, because the word isn'tdictionaried.
They [dictionary-makers] may have had their romance at home — may have been crossed in love, and thence driven todictionarying; may have been involved in domestic tragedies — who can say?
