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51 relations: American English, ASCII, AskMeNow, Biography, CD-ROM, Cucurbita, Dictionary, Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc., Geography, George Merriam, Index card, International Phonetic Association, Jacqui Safra, Knights of the Round Table, Kory Stamper, Kyle Rittenhouse, Linguistic description, Linguistic prescription, List of companies of the United States by state, List of online dictionaries, Lists of Merriam-Webster's Words of the Year, Medical terminology, Merriam-Webster's Dictionary of English Usage, Merriam-Webster's Geographical Dictionary, Noah Webster, Philip Babcock Gove, Phonetic transcription, Presidency of Donald Trump, Proper noun, Public domain, Punctuation, Reference work, Skunk, Slang, Slate (magazine), Softpedia, Spelling reform, Sport, Springfield, Massachusetts, Synonym, Text messaging, The Chicago Manual of Style, The Hill (newspaper), The New York Times, Thesaurus, Twitter, Unicode, University of Cambridge, Webster's Dictionary, Webster's Third New International Dictionary, ... Expand index (1 more) »
- Book publishing companies based in Massachusetts
- Online English dictionaries
- Publishing companies established in 1831
- Reference publishers
American English
American English (AmE), sometimes called United States English or U.S. English, is the set of varieties of the English language native to the United States.
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ASCII
ASCII, an acronym for American Standard Code for Information Interchange, is a character encoding standard for electronic communication.
AskMeNow
AskMeNow Inc. was an American public corporation, specializing in mobile search and mobile advertising.
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Biography
A biography, or simply bio, is a detailed description of a person's life.
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CD-ROM
A CD-ROM (compact disc read-only memory) is a type of read-only memory consisting of a pre-pressed optical compact disc that contains data computers can read—but not write or erase—CD-ROMs.
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Cucurbita
gourd is a genus of herbaceous fruits in the gourd family, Cucurbitaceae (also known as cucurbits or cucurbi), native to the Andes and Mesoamerica.
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Dictionary
A dictionary is a listing of lexemes from the lexicon of one or more specific languages, often arranged alphabetically (or by consonantal root for Semitic languages or radical and stroke for logographic languages), which may include information on definitions, usage, etymologies, pronunciations, translation, etc.
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Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.
Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc. is the company known for publishing the Encyclopædia Britannica, the world's oldest continuously published encyclopaedia. Merriam-Webster and Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc. are reference publishers.
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Geography
Geography (from Ancient Greek γεωγραφία; combining 'Earth' and 'write') is the study of the lands, features, inhabitants, and phenomena of Earth.
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George Merriam
George Merriam (January 20, 1803 – June 22, 1880) was an American publisher.
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Index card
An index card (or record card in British English and system cards in Australian English) consists of card stock (heavy paper) cut to a standard size, used for recording and storing small amounts of discrete data.
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International Phonetic Association
The International Phonetic Association (IPA; Association phonétique internationale, API) is an organization that promotes the scientific study of phonetics and the various practical applications of that science.
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Jacqui Safra
Jacqui (Jacob) Eli Safra (born 1947) is a Swiss billionaire investor from Geneva.
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Knights of the Round Table
The Knights of the Round Table (Marchogion y Ford Gron, Marghekyon an Moos Krenn, Marc'hegien an Daol Grenn) are the legendary knights of the fellowship of King Arthur that first appeared in the Matter of Britain literature in the mid-12th century.
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Kory Stamper
Kory Stamper is a lexicographer and former associate editor for the Merriam-Webster family of dictionaries.
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Kyle Rittenhouse
Kyle Howard Rittenhouse (born January 3, 2003) is an American man who gained national attention at age 17 for shooting three men in Kenosha, Wisconsin—two fatally—in August 2020, amid protests following the police shooting of Jacob Blake.
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Linguistic description
In the study of language, description or descriptive linguistics is the work of objectively analyzing and describing how language is actually used (or how it was used in the past) by a speech community.
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Linguistic prescription
Linguistic prescription, also called prescriptivism or prescriptive grammar, is the establishment of rules defining preferred usage of language.
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List of companies of the United States by state
This is a list of companies in the United States by state where their headquarters is located.
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List of online dictionaries
An online dictionary is a dictionary that is accessible via the Internet through a web browser.
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Lists of Merriam-Webster's Words of the Year
Merriam-Webster's Words of the Year are words of the year lists published annually by the American dictionary-publishing company Merriam-Webster, Inc.
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Medical terminology
Medical terminology is a language used to precisely describe the human body including all its components, processes, conditions affecting it, and procedures performed upon it.
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Merriam-Webster's Dictionary of English Usage
Merriam-Webster's Dictionary of English Usage (MWDEU) is a usage dictionary published by Merriam-Webster, Inc., of Springfield, Massachusetts.
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Merriam-Webster's Geographical Dictionary
Merriam-Webster's Geographical Dictionary (Webster's Geographical Dictionary, Webster's New Geographical Dictionary) is a gazetteer by the publisher Merriam-Webster.
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Noah Webster
Noah Webster Jr. (October 16, 1758 – May 28, 1843) was an American lexicographer, textbook pioneer, English-language spelling reformer, political writer, editor, and author.
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Philip Babcock Gove
Philip Babcock Gove (June 27, 1902–November 16, 1972) was an American lexicographer who was editor-in-chief of the Webster's Third New International Dictionary, published in 1961.
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Phonetic transcription
Phonetic transcription (also known as phonetic script or phonetic notation) is the visual representation of speech sounds (or phones) by means of symbols.
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Presidency of Donald Trump
Donald Trump's tenure as the 45th president of the United States began with his inauguration on January20, 2017, and ended on January20, 2021.
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Proper noun
A proper noun is a noun that identifies a single entity and is used to refer to that entity (Africa; Jupiter; Sarah; Walmart) as distinguished from a common noun, which is a noun that refers to a class of entities (continent, planet, person, corporation) and may be used when referring to instances of a specific class (a continent, another planet, these persons, our corporation).
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Public domain
The public domain (PD) consists of all the creative work to which no exclusive intellectual property rights apply.
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Punctuation
Punctuation marks are marks indicating how a piece of written text should be read (silently or aloud) and, consequently, understood.
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Reference work
A reference work is a non-fiction work, such as a paper, book or periodical (or their electronic equivalents), to which one can refer for information.
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Skunk
Skunks are mammals in the family Mephitidae.
Slang
A slang is a vocabulary (words, phrases, and linguistic usages) of an informal register, common in everyday conversation but avoided in formal writing.
Slate (magazine)
Slate is an online magazine that covers current affairs, politics, and culture in the United States.
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Softpedia
Softpedia is a software and tech news website based in Romania.
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Spelling reform
A spelling reform is a deliberate, often authoritatively sanctioned or mandated change to spelling rules.
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Sport
Sport is a form of physical activity or game.
Springfield, Massachusetts
Springfield is the most populous city in and the seat of Hampden County, Massachusetts, United States.
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Synonym
A synonym is a word, morpheme, or phrase that means precisely or nearly the same as another word, morpheme, or phrase in a given language.
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Text messaging
Text messaging, or texting, is the act of composing and sending electronic messages, typically consisting of alphabetic and numeric characters, between two or more users of mobile devices, desktops/laptops, or another type of compatible computer.
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The Chicago Manual of Style
The Chicago Manual of Style (abbreviated as CMOS, TCM, or CMS, or sometimes as Chicago) is a style guide for American English published since 1906 by the University of Chicago Press.
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The Hill (newspaper)
The Hill is an American newspaper and digital media company based in Washington, D.C., that was founded in 1994.
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The New York Times
The New York Times (NYT) is an American daily newspaper based in New York City.
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Thesaurus
A thesaurus (thesauri or thesauruses), sometimes called a synonym dictionary or dictionary of synonyms, is a reference work which arranges words by their meanings (or in simpler terms, a book where one can find different words with similar meanings to other words), sometimes as a hierarchy of broader and narrower terms, sometimes simply as lists of synonyms and antonyms.
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X, commonly referred to by its former name Twitter, is a social networking service.
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Unicode
Unicode, formally The Unicode Standard, is a text encoding standard maintained by the Unicode Consortium designed to support the use of text in all of the world's writing systems that can be digitized.
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University of Cambridge
The University of Cambridge is a public collegiate research university in Cambridge, England.
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Webster's Dictionary
Webster's Dictionary is any of the English language dictionaries edited in the early 19th century by Noah Webster (1758–1843), an American lexicographer, as well as numerous related or unrelated dictionaries that have adopted the Webster's name in his honor.
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Webster's Third New International Dictionary
Webster's Third New International Dictionary of the English Language, Unabridged (commonly known as Webster's Third, or W3) is an American English-language dictionary published in September 1961.
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Wiki
A wiki is a form of hypertext publication on the internet which is collaboratively edited and managed by its audience directly through a web browser.
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Book publishing companies based in Massachusetts
- A K Peters
- Academic Press
- Allyn & Bacon
- Applewood Books
- Artech House
- Barefoot Books
- Beacon Press
- Berkshire Publishing Group
- Black Sparrow Press
- Boston Photogravure Company
- Boundless (company)
- Branch Line Press
- Candlewick Press
- Cengage Group
- Circlet Press
- D. C. Heath and Company
- Da Capo Press
- De Vries, Ibarra & Co.
- Edward Elgar Publishing
- Four Seas Company
- G. K. Hall & Co.
- Gilbert & Dean
- Godine
- Hamilcar Publications
- Hampton Roads Publishing Company
- Harvard Business Publishing
- Harvard University Press
- Hendrickson Publishers
- Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
- Interlink Publishing
- Jones & Bartlett Learning
- Lee & Shepard
- MIT Press
- MadHat Press
- Merriam-Webster
- Munroe & Francis
- NESFA Press
- Necropolitan Press
- New England Science Fiction Association
- Perugia Press
- Red Wheel/Weiser
- Sinauer Associates
- Small Beer Press
- South End Press
- Thayer & Eldridge
- Tupelo Press
- University of Massachusetts Press
- Wakefield Press (US)
- Walden Pond Press
Online English dictionaries
- A Dictionary of Canadianisms on Historical Principles
- Bible Dictionary (LDS Church)
- COBUILD
- Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
- Chambers Dictionary
- Collaborative International Dictionary of English
- Collins English Dictionary
- Collins Spanish Dictionary
- Department of Defense Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms
- Dictionary of American Regional English
- Dictionary.com
- Double-Tongued Dictionary
- GCIDE
- Gellish English dictionary
- Green's Dictionary of Slang
- Lexico
- Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
- Macmillan English Dictionary for Advanced Learners
- Macquarie Dictionary
- Merriam-Webster
- Middle English Dictionary
- Online Etymology Dictionary
- Reference.com
- The Big Word Project
- The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows
- The Free Dictionary
- The Omnificent English Dictionary in Limerick Form
- Urban Dictionary
- WordNet
- Wordnik
- Wordster
Publishing companies established in 1831
- Merriam-Webster
Reference publishers
- Chambers (publisher)
- Darul Musannefin Shibli Academy
- Edwin Mellen Press
- Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.
- Frederick Warne & Co.
- Grolier
- Guinness World Records
- Hachette Livre
- Janes Information Services
- Langenscheidt
- Martindale-Hubbell
- Merriam-Webster
- Oxford University Press
- Routledge
- St. Paul's Bibliographies
- Tolley (company)
- World Book Encyclopedia
- World Radio TV Handbook
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