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Historical Thesaurus of English

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The Historical Thesaurus of English (HTE) is the largest thesaurus in the world, conceived and compiled by the English Language Department of the University of Glasgow. The HTE is a complete database of all the words in the second edition of The Oxford English Dictionary, arranged by semantic field and date. In this way, the HTE arranges the whole vocabulary of English, from the earliest... Read enhanced Wikipedia article

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    Historical Thesaurus of the Oxford English Dictionary

    The Historical Thesaurus of English (HTE) is the largest thesaurus in the world, conceived and compiled by the English Language Department of the University of Glasgow. The HTE is a complete database of all the words in the second edition of The Oxford English Dictionary, arranged by semantic field and date.
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    Thesaurus

    The largest thesaurus in the world is the Historical Thesaurus of the Oxford English Dictionary, which contains more than 920,000 words and meanings. ... Historical Thesaurus of English (HTE),
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    HTE

    HTE-1 or HTE-2, United States Navy designations for the Hiller UH-12A helicopter ... The Historical Thesaurus of English
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    Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names

    The Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names (abbreviated TGN or GTGN) is a product of the J. Paul Getty Trust included in the Getty Vocabulary Program. ... Names for a place may include names in the vernacular language, English, other languages, historical names, names and in natural order and inverted order.
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    List of lexicographers

    Grzegorz Knapski (Poland, 1561–1639) Polish, Latin and Greek thesaurus ... Charles Talbut Onions (UK, 1873–1965) English language historical dictionary
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    Promiscuity

    The terms "slag","whore", "trollop", "skank", and "ho" are also used across the English-speaking-world to describe sexually promiscuous women. ... Love, Sex and Marriage: A Historical Thesaurus.
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    Conation

    Thesaurus of English words and phrases. ... On the will: An historical perspective, In W.A. Hershberger (Ed), Volitional action: Conation and control.
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    Japanese dictionary

    The Wiktionary uses English dictionary to define a few synonyms including lexicon, wordbook, vocabulary, thesaurus, and translating dictionary. ... This multivolume historical dictionary enters about 500,000 headwords, and is currently the most complete reference work for the Japanese language.
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    Scientific writing

    Style of writing and use of English in essays and scientific papers ... Use a standard dictionary and Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases to find the correct meaning of words.
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    Physician writer

    Peter Mark Roget (1779–1869) creator of the Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases (Roget's Thesaurus) ... The humanities and arts provide insight into the human condition, suffering, personhood, our responsibility to each other, and offer a historical perspective on medical practice.

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