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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. In antiquity, Philo of Byblos authored the first text that could now be called a thesaurus. In Sanskrit, the Amarakosha is a thesaurus in verse form, written in the 4th century. The... Read enhanced Wikipedia article

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lists, Simple English Wiktionary, words, synonyms, Altägyptisches Wörterbuch, Art, Architecture Thesaurus, Eric Thesaurus and german.

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Wiktionary Additionally, the English Wiktionary includes Wikisaurus, a category that serves as a thesaurus, including lists of slang words, and the Simple English Wiktionary, compiled using the Basic English subset of the English language.

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Wiktionary Additionally, the English Wiktionary includes Wikisaurus, a category that serves as a thesaurus, including lists of slang words, and the Simple English Wiktionary, compiled using the Basic English subset of the English language.

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Wiktionary Additionally, the English Wiktionary includes Wikisaurus, a category that serves as a thesaurus, including lists of slang words, and the Simple English Wiktionary, compiled using the Basic English subset of the English language.

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Thesaurus Although including synonyms, a thesaurus should not be taken as a complete list of all the synonyms for a particular word.

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Egyptian language Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae, an online service available from October 2004 which is associated with various German Egyptological projects, including the monumental Altägyptisches Wörterbuch of the Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften (Brandenburg Academy of Sciences, Berlin, Germany).

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Controlled vocabulary Well known thesauri include the Art and Architecture Thesaurus and the ERIC Thesaurus.

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Controlled vocabulary Well known thesauri include the Art and Architecture Thesaurus and the ERIC Thesaurus.

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Controlled vocabulary Well known thesauri include the Art and Architecture Thesaurus and the ERIC Thesaurus.

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Vernacular After numerous dictionaries and glossaries of a less than comprehensive nature came a thesaurus that attempted to include all German:

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synonyms, information, names and variations.

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Webster's Home Reference Library The dictionary contains 40,000 definitions, the thesaurus contains 150,000 synonyms, and the spelling and grammar guide contains 40,000 common mistakes.

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Geographic information system Another fairly recently developed resource for naming GIS objects is the Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names (GTGN), which is a structured vocabulary containing around 1,000,000 names and other information about places.

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Geographic information system Another fairly recently developed resource for naming GIS objects is the Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names (GTGN), which is a structured vocabulary containing around 1,000,000 names and other information about places.

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Art & Architecture Thesaurus While the thesaurus contains many variations on a term, such as singular and plural forms, spelling variants, various forms of speech, and synonyms, one is always flagged as the preferred term.

antiquitatums :
vol., Italiae and historiarum.

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Acclamatio Other instances of acclamationes are given by Franciscus Ferrarius (Francesco Bernardino Ferrari), in his De Veterum Acclamationibus et Plausu, and in Graevius, Thesaurus antiquitatum Romanarum vol. vi.

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Johann Georg Graevius His two most important works are the Thesaurus antiquitatum Romanarum (1694-1699, in 12 volumes), and the Thesaurus antiquitatum et historiarum Italiae published after his death, and continued by the elder Pieter Burmann (1704-1725), although these have not always been looked upon favourably.

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Johann Georg Graevius His two most important works are the Thesaurus antiquitatum Romanarum (1694-1699, in 12 volumes), and the Thesaurus antiquitatum et historiarum Italiae published after his death, and continued by the elder Pieter Burmann (1704-1725), although these have not always been looked upon favourably.

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    Thesaurus

    A thesaurus is a book 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.
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    Roget's Thesaurus

    Roget's Thesaurus is a widely-used English thesaurus, created by Dr. Peter Mark Roget (1779–1869) in 1805 and released to the public on 29 April 1852. The original edition had 15,000 words, and each new edition has been larger.
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    Thesaurus Logarithmorum Completus

    Thesaurus Logarithmorum Completus, a large logarithm table handbook, was the main work of Slovenian mathematician Jurij Vega. It was first published in 1794 in Leipzig.
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    RCA Thesaurus

    RCA Thesaurus is the title of a series of phonographic albums on the RCA Victor label featuring outstanding transcriptions of classical music and popular compositions from the 1950s. They were produced under the musical direction of Ben Selvin during the 1950s in New York City for RCA Victor and were broadcast over the NBC radio network.
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    Thesaurus florentinus

    Thesaurus Florentinus is a project for the acquisition and reconstruction of the images of the mural paintings in the Cupola of Santa Maria del Fiore in Firenze and a computer system to manage the hundreds of thousand pieces of information gathered during the restoration campaign ended in 1995.
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    Thesaurus Linguae Latinae

    The Thesaurus Linguae Latinae (abbreviated as ThLL or TLL) is a monumental dictionary of Latin. It encompasses the Latin language from the time of its origin to the time of Isidore of Seville (†636).
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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. ... They are compliant with ISO and NISO standards for thesaurus construction.
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    Art & Architecture Thesaurus

    The Art & Architecture Thesaurus (AAT) is a controlled vocabulary used for describing items of art, architecture, and material culture. ... The AAT is a thesaurus in compliance with ISO and NISO standards including ISO 2788 and ANSI/NISO Z39.19.
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    Thesaurus Linguae Sericae

    The Thesaurus Linguae Sericae 新編漢文典 (TLS) is an international collaborative project designed to explore the conceptual schemes of the Chinese language. The project was conceived by Christoph Harbsmeier, its chief editor, and receives input by a large number of academic contributors worldwide.
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    Thesaurus Linguae Graecae

    The Thesaurus Linguae Graecae (TLG) is a research center at the University of California, Irvine. The TLG was founded in 1972 by Marianne McDonald (a graduate student at the time and now Professor of Theater and Classics at the University of California, San Diego) with the goal to create a comprehensive digital collection of all surviving texts written in Greek from antiquity to the present era.

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