For several years, a prize was offered for the best essay : a Webster's Unabridged Dictionary and a holder for it.
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:: English probably has more exceptions than it has rules, but unabridged dictionaries sometimes have information like that; patterns to look for.
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The " New Standard Unabridged Dictionary " was revised up to 1943, a later edition that was also supervised by Charles Earl Funk.
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A byte is a small chunk of computer data, and a terabyte-- 1 trillion bytes-- is the equivalent of 1 million unabridged dictionaries.
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The motion to have the RIT finally produce an " unabridged dictionary " was presented by Tanin at the cabinet meeting of 28 December 1976 and was accepted.
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At home I use the Random House Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, which naturally is a much larger compendium, with some illustrations as well as spoken words.
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The meaning is still current in Webster's 3rd unabridged dictionary ( 1961 ), which gives " retrograde evolution " as a definition of devolution.
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The form of rapier called the pappenheimer, is named after him according to " Webster's Encyclopedic Unabridged Dictionary of the English Language : Deluxe Edition ."
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Time's copy editors say they looked it up beforehand in Merriam-Webster's Third Unabridged Dictionary and Eric Partridge's Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English.
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My most common references are the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, Second Edition, and Webster's Third New International Dictionary, although I use many other references as well.
