Look up: thesaurus

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   thesaurus
   Latin, meaning: treasure, horde / store-room, treasury.
   Found on http://archives.nd.edu/ttt.htm
   
   
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   thesaurus
   controlled vocabulary in which concepts are represented by preferred terms, formally organized so that paradigmatic relationships between the concepts are made explicit, and the preferred terms are accompanied by lead-in entries for synonyms or quasi-synonyms. The purpose of a thesaurus is to guide both the indexer and the searcher to select the same preferred term or combination of preferred terms to represent a given subject.
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   thesaurus
   [n] - a book containing a classified list of synonyms
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   Thesaurus
   A controlled vocabulary of terms used to aid document indexing and searching.
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   thesaurus
   a list of words arranged according to meaning, rather than alphabetically as in a standard dictionary.
   Found on http://www.essex.ac.uk/linguistics/clmt/
   
   
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   Thesaurus
   a reference text which groups words by meaning. A thesaurus can help writers to select words, consider the full range of alternatives and vary words which are used frequently: said, went, nice.
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   thesaurus
   a controlled list of descriptors and non-descriptors related by semantic(that is,hierarchical,associative,or equivalence)links Category: Automation (includes telecommunications and computers) • a controlled and dynamic documentary language containing semantically and generically related terms, which comprehensively covers a specific domain of knowledge Category: Automation (includes...
   Found on http://www.mijnwoordenboek.nl/definition
   
   
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   Thesaurus
   The·sau'rus noun ; plural Thesauri . [ Latin See Treasure .] A treasury or storehouse; hence, a repository, especially of knowledge; -- often applied to a comprehensive work, like a dictionary or cyclopedia.
   Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/T/43
   
   
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   thesaurus
   synonym finder noun a book containing a classified list of synonyms
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    Thesaurus
    A `thesaurus` is an indexed compilation of words with similar, related, and opposite meanings: for example, a book of jargon for a specialized field. The first example of this genre, `Roget's Thesaurus`, was compiled in 1805 by Peter Roget, and published in 1852. Entries in `Roget's Thesaurus` are listed conceptually rather than alphabetically. Although including synonyms and antonyms, entries in a thesaurus should not be taken as a list of the...
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    Thesaurus
    • (n.) A treasury or storehouse; hence, a repository, especially of knowledge; -- often applied to a comprehensive work, like a dictionary or cyclopedia.
    Found on http://thinkexist.com/dictionary/meaning
    
    
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    thesaurus
    (from the article `library`) A new use of the term thesaurus, now widespread, dates from the early 1950s in the work of H.P. Luhn, at International Business Machines Corporation ...
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    thesaurus
    (from the article `Roget, Peter Mark`) English physician and philologist remembered for his Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases (1852), a comprehensive classification of synonyms or ... ...less useful than they might be if compiled in some other order. The assembling of words into groups related by some principle, as by their ... ...
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    thesaurus
    thesaurus (s) 1. A book that lists words related to each other in meaning, usually giving synonyms and antonyms. 2. A dictionary of words relating to a particular subject. 3. A place in which valuable things are stored. 4. Etymology: from 1823, 'treasury, storehouse'; from Latin thesaurus 'treasury, treasure'; from Greek thesauros, 'a treas...
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