Lexicography as a Science, Russian Lexicography
The branch of Lexicology dealing with the science and art of creating dictionaries.
Lexicography
The common term for publications designed for quick look-ups of specific facts, not cover-to-cover reading.
reference books or inquiry books
A method for interpreting a structural component of a language in a dictionary, such as normativity or vocabulary arrangement.
a lexicographic parameter
The science concerned with the theory and practice of dictionary-making
metalexicography
The author of the 1755 Dictionary of the English Language, a landmark work that defined the English language.
Samuel Johnson
The two main groups of dictionaries, with the first providing information about the extralinguistic world and the second about intralinguistic information.
encyclopedic and linguistic dictionaries
The type of dictionary that focuses on objects, events, and phenomena, typically excluding pronouns and conjunctions.
an encyclopedic dictionary
The classification framework by I.V. Arnold that includes glossaries, concordances, and dictionaries of synonyms, borrowings, and neologisms.
specialized dictionaries
The first category of dictionary user, who needs help understanding word meanings, as opposed to a user who needs help using words correctly.
a decoding user
The pioneering work by the Philological Society that was later known as the Oxford English Dictionary (OED).
A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles
The modern approach to lexicography where platforms like Wiktionary use the collective knowledge of users to create and update entries.
crowdsourcing
The 11th-century scholar whose Devonu lug'otit-turk is the earliest Turkic bilingual explanatory dictionary.
Mahmud Koshgari
The term for dictionaries that focus on the peculiarities of language use, with examples like the Longman Dictionary of Common Errors.
usage dictionaries
The group of dictionaries specifically designed for non-native speakers, beginning with Ogden's Basic English and Hornby's Idiomatic and Syntactic English Dictionary.
learner's dictionaries
The professor who was the first editor of the Oxford English Dictionary and oversaw its initial compilation.
James A. H. Murray
The professor who led the team that created the New Large English-Russian Dictionary (NBARS) in 1993.
Yu.D. Apresyan
The comprehensive digital database designed to analyze the structure, usage, and evolution of the Uzbek language.
Uzbek Language Corpus
A brief explanation within a manuscript, or a short word list with minimal lexicographic data.
a gloss or glossary
The most primitive type of online dictionary, created by scanning or photographing an existing printed dictionary.
copycats
The "towering figure" in American lexicography who published An American Dictionary of the English Language in 1828.
Noah Webster
The author of the influential English-Russian Phraseological Dictionary, first published in 1955.
A.V. Kunin
The professor who translated Devonu lug'otit-turk into Uzbek, laying the first foundation stone for Uzbek lexicography.
Salih Mutallibov
The book by Peter Mark Roget that groups words by concepts and synonyms, based on a thematic principle.
thesaurus
The online terminology database of the United Nations, available in six official languages, to ensure consistent usage in UN documents.
UNTERM
The 1800 dictionary by Caleb Alexander that was the first to record discrepancies between British and American English.
Columbian Dictionary of the English Language