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A thesaurus is a work that contains 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 first example of the modern genre, Roget's Thesaurus, was compiled in... Read enhanced Wikipedia article

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

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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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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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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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Thesaurus A thesaurus is a work that contains synonyms and sometimes antonyms, in contrast to a dictionary, which contains definitions and pronunciations.

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.

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discipline, subject and field.

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Thesaurus Unlike a literary thesaurus, these specialized thesauri typically focus on one discipline, subject or field of study.

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Thesaurus Unlike a literary thesaurus, these specialized thesauri typically focus on one discipline, subject or field of study.

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Thesaurus Unlike a literary thesaurus, these specialized thesauri typically focus on one discipline, subject or field of study.

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    Thesaurus

    A thesaurus is a work that contains 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.
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    Roget's Thesaurus

    Roget, Peter Mark [1852] (1962, 1982), Lloyd, Susan M., ed., Roget's Thesaurus, Burnt Mill, Harlow, Essex: Longman Group Limited, ISBN 0 582 55635 X
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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.
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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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    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.
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    Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names

    TGN is a thesaurus, compliant with ISO and NISO standards for thesaurus construction; it contains hierarchical, equivalence, and associative relationships.
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    Historical Thesaurus of English

    A Historical Thesaurus of English (HTE) homepage, including a limited test website and the complete searchable Thesaurus of Old English (Roberts and Kay 1995, 2000).
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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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