Thesaurus definitions

Thesaurus

1) Book of synonyms 2) Dictionary kin 3) Meaningful work 4) Standard reference 5) Synonym book 6) Synonym finder 7) Synonym-loaded reference 8) Type of Dictionary 9) Wordbook
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Thesaurus

1) Lexicon 2) Wordbook 3) Word finder
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thesaurus

Latin, meaning: treasure, horde / store-room, treasury.
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thesaurus

a book of synonyms, often also containing antonyms. An example is Roget's Thesaurus. In database searching, a thesaurus strategy is to use multiple iterations to search for related words and generate results. The database will often suggest synonyms and related words to try.
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Thesaurus

In general usage, a thesaurus is a reference work that lists words grouped together according to similarity of meaning (containing synonyms and sometimes antonyms), in contrast to a dictionary, which provides definitions for words, and generally lists them in alphabetical order. The main purpose of such reference works is to help the user `to fi.....
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Thesaurus

[information retrieval] Thesaurus (information retrieval) This article is about thesauri used to support indexing, tagging or searching for information; for thesauri used in general/literary applications, see Thesaurus In the context of information retrieval, a thesaurus (plural: `thesauri`) is a form of controlled vocabulary that seeks to ...
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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.
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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

(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

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.
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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.
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Thesaurus

A thesaurus is a form of dictionary or encyclopaedia in which generally words are arranged in a list or groups according to their sense. In North America the term thesaurus is often given to a dictionary of synonyms. A
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thesaurus

a book of synonyms, often also containing antonyms. An example is Roget's Thesaurus. In database searching, a thesaurus strategy is to use multiple iterations to search for related words and generate results. The database will often suggest synonyms and related words to try.
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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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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 sa...
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