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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. ... The ANSI/NISO Z39.19 Standard of 2005 defines guidelines and conventions for the format, construction, testing, maintenance, and management of monolingual controlled vocabularies including lists, synonym rings, taxonomies, and thesauruses.
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   Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names

   The Thesaurus includes names and other information about places such as cities, countries, nations and their associated physical features like mountains, coasts and rivers.
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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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   Scholastic Reference

   The Scholastic Pocket Thesaurus includes many synonyms and antonyms.
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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. ... The record for each concept includes its place in the hierarchy (with a link to its parent), as well as links to related terms, related concepts, sources for the data, and notes.
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   Roget's Thesaurus

   This may be conceptualized as a tree containing over a thousand branches for individual "meaning clusters" or semantically linked words. ... Moby Thesaurus
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   Controlled vocabulary

   Well known thesauri include the Art and Architecture Thesaurus and the ERIC Thesaurus.
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   Geographic information system

   Another fairly 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. ... For vector data, this includes additional information about the objects represented in the system.
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   Peter Mark Roget

   This was especially helpful for calculations involving fractional powers and roots. ... The Man Who Made Lists: Love, Death, Madness, and the Creation of Roget's Thesaurus.
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    Traditional medicine

    Francisco Hernandez, physician to King Phillip II of Spain spent the years 1571–1577 gathering information in Mexico and then wrote Rerum Medicarum Novae Hispaniae Thesaurus, many versions of which have been published including one by Francisco Ximenez. ... The santowah ceremony includes sweet broom (Scoparia dulcis) used to sprinkle holy water.

Explore the following pages on Powerset:

• Thesaurus,
• Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names,
• Wiktionary,
• Scholastic Reference,
• Art & Architecture Thesaurus,
• Roget's Thesaurus,
• Controlled vocabulary,
• Geographic information system,
• Peter Mark Roget,
• Traditional medicine