:: : " Cross-bow " is the entry word in the OED and the only form it mentions.
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Stress is not normally marked in writing, except occasionally to distinguish between homographs, or in dictionaries for the entry words.
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For example, has only one dictionary entry word-internally ( in,'heavy') and two entries word-initially.
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For example, has only one dictionary entry word-internally ( in,'heavy') and two entries word-initially.
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The dictionaries at Onelook are split about 50-50 between " X-ray " and " x-ray " for the entry word.
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For preliterate native speakers of a language, the pictures in these dictionaries both define the entry words and are the " keys " to their pronunciation.
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In lexicography, the latter kind of tilde and the "'swung dash "'( S ) are used in dictionaries to indicate the omission of the entry word.
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First, they may have entry words in one language and definitions in another language these dictionaries give help to understand legal texts, usually written in a foreign language, and to acquire knowledge, usually about a foreign legal system.
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Second, bilingual law dictionaries with entry words in one language and equivalents in another language provide help to translate legal texts, into or from a foreign language, and sometimes also to produce legal texts, usually in a foreign language.
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Medhurst began compiling his dictionary in 1838, and wrote the LMS missionary printer William Ellis in Tahiti that he planned for his English-Chinese dictionary to include about 15, 000 entry words and be " fit for every purpose of religion and science " ( Su 1996 : 227 ).