Transcript Dictionary Skills Notes

Dictionary Skills
Dictionaries are books
that list all the words in a
language in alphabetical
order.
Since there are so many
words in a dictionary,
guide words are used to
help you locate a word
quickly.
What are guide words?
Guide words are found at
the top of each page. They
tell you the first and last
word that is found on that
page.
How do guide words help
you find a word quickly?
Instead of looking at each word
on a page, which could take
forever, you just look at the
guide words and then use what
you know about alphabetizing
words to decide if your word
would be found on that page.
Let’s see what that means.
Let’s pretend we are
looking up the word,
science. First we would
turn to the S section.
Then we would use the
guide words and what we
know about alphabetizing
words to decide the
correct page in the S
section.
We would look at the
guide words at the top of
each page and decide
between which ones our
word would come in
alphabetical order.
Let’s do that for the
word scienceWhich one of these pages
would contain the word
science?
Have you ever looked up
the definition for a word
in the dictionary?
If so, then you might
have been confused by
some of the parts of that
definition.
This is a definition for flag:
flag (flag)
1. noun A piece of cloth with a
pattern or symbol of a
country, an organization, etc.
2. verb To stop, or to signal. We
flagged down the police
officer.
flag (flag)
wordof
being
1. nounThe
A piece
clothdefined
with a
is followed
byof
the
pattern
or symbol
a
pronunciation
in
country,
an organization,
etc.
parenthesis.
2. verb To stop, or to signal. We
flagged down the police
officer.
The first word tells the word’s
flag
(flag)
part of speech
1. noun A piece of cloth with a
pattern or symbol of a
country, an organization, etc.
2. verb To stop, or to signal. We
flagged down the police
officer.
The next section is the actual
definition of the word.
1. noun A piece of cloth with a
pattern or symbol of a
country, an organization, etc.
2. verb To stop, or to signal. We
flagged down the police
officer.
Finally, you might see a
sentence
1.
noun Ashowing
piece of how
cloththe
with a
word
pattern
is used.
or symbol
Especially
of a if the
use
country,
is not the
an most
organization,
commonetc.
for
the word.
1. verb To stop, or to signal. We
flagged down the police
officer.
Let’s see what you’ve learned!
mischief (miss-chif)
noun Playful behavior that
may cause annoyance or harm
to others. My brother is always
up to some sort of mischief.
book (buk)
1. noun A set of pages that are
bound together.
2. verb To arrange for something
ahead of time. We’ve booked a
vacation in Mexico.
Hearth (härth) n. 1. The floor of a
fireplace, often extending into a
room. 2. Family Entry
life; theword
home: The
weary travelers longed for their own
hearth. 3. The lower part of a blast
furnace, from which the molten
metal flows. [first written down
about 725 in Old English and
spelled heorth.
Hearth (härth) n. 1. The floor of a
fireplace, often extending into a
room. 2. Family Pronunciation
life; the home: The
weary travelers longed
for their
own
of the
word
hearth. 3. The lower part of a blast
furnace, from which the molten
metal flows. [first written down
about 725 in Old English and
spelled heorth.
Hearth (härth) n. 1. The floor of a
fireplace, often extending into a
room. 2. Family life; the home: The
weary travelers
longed
for
their
own
Part of speech
hearth. 3.
The
lower
part
of
a
blast
label of the
furnace,
frombeing
which the molten
word
metal flows.
[first written down
defined
about 725 in Old English and
spelled heorth.
Hearth (härth) n. 1. The floor of a
fireplace, often extending into a
room. 2. Family life; the home: The
weary travelers longed for their own
hearth. 3. The lower part of a blast
furnace, from which the molten
metal flows. [first written down
Sense numbers
about 725 in Old English and
spelled heorth.
Hearth (härth) n. 1. The floor of a
fireplace, often extending into a
room. 2. Family life; the home: The
weary travelers longed for their own
hearth. 3. The lower part of a blast
furnace, from which the molten
metal flows. [first written down
Illustrative
about 725 in Old English and
example
spelled heorth.
Hearth (härth)
n. 1. Theor
floor of a
Etymology
fireplace,origin
often extending into a
room. 2. Family life; the home: The
weary travelers longed for their own
hearth. 3. The lower part of a blast
furnace, from which the molten
metal flows. [first written down
about 725 in Old English and
spelled heorth.
Other terms you will
need to know
regarding a dictionary:
A glossary is an
alphabetical list of terms
or words found in a
textbook; like a minidictionary specific to that
textbook.
Syllabication is the
division of words into
syllables.
An affix is an additional
element placed at the
beginning or end of a root,
stem, or word, or in the
body of a word, to modify
its meaning.
A root word is a basic
word. EX: happy
Types of affixes:
•Prefix: comes at the
beginning of a root word
•Suffix: comes at the end
of a root word
The 5 senses are
the senses of sight, touch,
hearing, taste, and smell.