Transcript Intro to dictionaries

Introduction to Dictionaries
Our Objectives
• I can define key words used in the
dictionary.
• I can look up words in the dictionary and
define their meanings.
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What is a dictionary?
• It is a book of words listed in alphabetical
order.
• It tells you how to spell and pronounce
words.
• It gives the meanings of words in its
definitions and shows you how they are
used in sentences.
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Entry words
• A word that is entered and defined in a
dictionary is called an entry word.
• Entry words are listed in alphabetical order
according to how they are spelled.
• All the words that begin with a are listed
together, then all the words with b, and so
on.
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Homographs
• Homographs are words that are spelled
the same way but have different meanings
and may be pronounced differently. In this
dictionary they are placed together in
alphabetical order and are followed by
small raised numbers.
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Variant Spellings
• Sometimes a word can be spelled in more
than one way. These different spellings
are called variant spellings or variants.
• For example, the word ax can also be
spelled axe.
• Both are correct and both are included in
your dictionary.
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Parts of Speech
• Words are used in different ways in a
sentence. The way a word is used
determines its part of speech. Some
words can be used as more than one part
of speech.
• For example play can be used as a verb or
a noun.
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Parts of Speech (continued)
• In this dictionary, the following labes are
used to indicate a word’s part of speech:
o
o
o
o
o
o
o
o
Noun
Verb
Adjective
Adverb
Preposition
Pronoun
Interjection
Contraction
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Roots and Inflections
• Some words add different endings such as
–s or-ed, to show a change in the way the
word is being used.
• The word without such an ending is called
the root.
• With such an ending, it is called an
inflection
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Roots and Inflections (cont)
• The following inflections are included in
this dictionary:
o Plurals of nouns
o -ed and –ing forms of verbs
o -er and –est forms of adjectives and
adverbs.
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