 | 1859 - 448 Seiten
...ideas which they express. The purpose of a dictionary is simply to explain the meaning of words — the word being given, to find its signification, or...idea it is intended to convey. The object aimed at here is exactly the converse of this : the idea being given, to find the word or words by which that... | |
 | Lucius Edwin Smith, Henry Griggs Weston - 1873 - 522 Seiten
...convenient auxiliary to one. " The purpose of a dictionary is to explain the meaning of words, and, the word being given, to find its signification, or the idea it is intended to convey." In the Thesaurus, on the other hand, " the object is exactly the converse of this; the idea being given,... | |
 | Royal College of Physicians of London, William Munk - 1878 - 436 Seiten
...quinquaginta annorum — was intended to supply with respect to the English language a desideratum heretofore unsupplied in any language ; namely, a collection...is intended to convey. The object aimed at. in the Thesaurus is exactly the converse of this, namely, the idea being given, to find the word or words... | |
 | William Munk, Royal College of Physicians of London - 1878 - 460 Seiten
...quinquaginta annorum — was intended to supply with respect to the English language a desideratum heretofore unsupplied in any language ; namely, a collection...is intended to convey. The object aimed at in the Thesaurus is exactly the converse of this, namely, the idea being given, to find the word or words... | |
 | Longmans, Green and co - 1880 - 382 Seiten
...which it professes to furnish the solution may be stated thus : — The word being given, to find ite signification, or the idea it is intended to convey....undertaking is exactly the converse of this : namely — The ides being given, to find the word, or words, hv which that idea may be most fitly and aptly expressed.... | |
 | Peter Mark Roget - 1882 - 754 Seiten
...Maida Hill, London, W. March 17th, 1878. INTRODUCTION. [Notes within bracket* are by the editor. ] THE present "Work is intended to supply, with respect...exactly the converse of this: namely, — The idea being piven, to find the word, or words, by which that idea may be most fitly and aptly expressed. For this... | |
 | Louis Agassiz, Augustus Addison Gould - 1855 - 274 Seiten
...dictionary Is slmpjy to explain the meaning of woids— the word belng given, to find its signifieation, or the Idea it is intended to convey. The object aimed at here is exacUy the converse of this : the idea belng given, to find the word, or words by which that... | |
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English language, a desideratum hitherto unsupplied in any language ; namely, a collection of the words it contains and of the idiomatic combinations peculiar to it, arranged, not in alphabetical order as they are in a Dictionary, but according to the... 
