Tasks and assignments

1.* Judging only by the names of the dictionaries elicit as much information about them as possible and define the types:

1) The Wordsworth Dictionary of Idioms

2) The Encyclopaedia Britannica

3) Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

4) Roget’s Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases

5) Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary

6) Кунин А.В. Англо-русский фразеологический словарь

7) Collins COBUILD English Language Dictionary

8) Малаховский Л.В. Словарь английских омонимов и омоформ

9) Фоломкина, С.К. Англо-русский словарь сочетаемости

10) www.multitran.ru

11) ABBYY Lingvo x 3

12) Walker’s Rhyming Dictionary of the English Language

13) www.etymonline.com

14) The English Pronouncing Dictionary

15) The Longman Language Activator

16) The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology

2. Analyse the entries for the word thesaurus and determine the type of dictionaries they are borrowed from.

a) ________________________.

1 thesauruses [θi’sɔ:rəsiz]

2 thesaurus [θi’sɔ:rəs]

b) _________________________.

thesaurus [θi’sɔ:rəs], -ruses or -ri [rai]

1) a book containing systematized lists of synonyms and related words

2) a dictionary of selected words or topics

3) rare a treasury

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Etymology: from Latin, Greek: TREASURE

c) ________________________.

thesaurus

noun (List): {words}: word list, concordance, dictionary, lexicon, vocabulary, glossary, thesaurus.
noun (Word): dictionary, vocabulary, lexicon, glossary, index, concordance, thesaurus.

d) ________________________.

thesaurus n. [L.]
1. Treasury, storehouse.
2. Repository (especially of knowledge).

e) ________________________.

thesaurus

1823, "treasury, storehouse," from L. thesaurus "treasury, treasure," from Gk. thesauros "a treasure, treasury, storehouse, chest," from root of tithenai "to put, to place." The meaning "encyclopedia filled with information" is from 1840, but existed earlier as thesaurarie (1592), used as a title by early dictionary compilers. Meaning "collection of words arranged according to sense" is first attested 1852 in Roget’s title. Thesaur is attested in M.E. with the meaning "treasure" (15c.-16c.).

f) ________________________.

A thesaurus is a work that lists words grouped together according to similarity of meaning (containing synonyms and sometimes antonyms), in contrast to a dictionary, which contains definitions and pronunciations.

Contents

1 History and use of term

2 Thesauri in IT

3 Literary Thesauri

4 Specialized Thesauri for Information Retrieval

5 Standards and Manuals

6 See also

7 References

8 External links

g) ________________________.

thesaurus [θi’sɔ:rəs ] сущ.; мн.ч. thesauruses, thesauri

1) а) идеографический словарь, тезаурус

б) словарь синонимов и антонимов

в) справочник; энциклопедия

2) информ. тезаурус (систематизированный набор данных по какой-л. области, хранящийся в компьютере и позволяющий осуществлять поиск с помощью ключевых терминов)

3) книжн.; редк. сокровищница, хранилище прям. и перен.

Syn: treasury