A Modern English dictionary like the Oxford English dictionary has 13 volumes. ... The dictionary consists of words that have been in use after the middle of the 20th century. ... These variations, or dialects, can vary in dictionary, phonology, and/or organism from the Standard Language that we often contemplate of as precise language, although they are not unavoidably less decent than, Saw, Standard English. ...

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Dictionaries and legislators cannot entirely comprehend the understanding and definition of what is meant by the word itself. ... Although, the dictionary definition does give some insight to the understanding of what people really do mean. ...

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What Is a Minority Group If you look up minority in the dictionary, it states the word's meaning is a number or part representing less than half of the whole. If the population of the United States is the "whole" the dictionary was referring to, then the minority would make up less than half the population right? ...

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21st Century Slavery There are many different ways one can describe slavery. Webster's Dictionary defines slavery as "one who is owned and forced into service by another," while, the Oxford Dictionary the definition is of one who is an "obsessive devotee." The meaning of slavery has evolved th...

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The dictionary's infamous definition interprets equality a shaving the same of a certain quality. ... One this Earth it is impossible to achieve the dictionary definition of equality without sacrificing the progress of mankind. ...

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In the executive branch, "the branch of government charged with the execution and enforcement of laws" (Dictionary), a group executive would benefit government because it would prohibit one person from having to much power. ... A veto is the "power or right vested in one branch of a government to cancel or postpone the decisions of another branch, especially the right of a president, governor, or other chief executive to reject bills passed by the legislature" (Dictionary). ...

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Euthanasia or "Physician Assisted-Suicide" is "Suicide accomplished with the aid of another person, especially a physician." (American Heritage Medical Dictionary). The debate of the legalization of Euthanasia hangs heavily on the ethics of the passing of life. America is a country that is known to...

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According to The Oxford Dictionary, evaluation is "the making of a judgement about the amount, number, or value of something; assessment: the evaluation of each method" In our daily lives, we are continually evaluating objects, people, and ideas in our environments. ...

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Freedom According to Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, Freedom is defined as the quality or state of being free, the absence of necessity, liberation from slavery or restraint of from the power of another. ...

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The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language provides many explanations: "a person or thing that leads; a guide; one in charge or in command of others." The dictionary proceeds to offer such additional definitions as "a person who leads others along a way; a guiding or directing head, as of an army or political group; the head of a political party or organization; one who has an influential voice in politics." ... A dictionary definition most often is just as abstract as the term that needs to be defined, offering just the most basic and primary of details. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

The American Heritage dictionary defines history as: " A chronological record of events, as of the life or development of a people or institution, often including an explanation of or commentary on those events." ...

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Racism in America There is surely no nation in the world that holds "racism" in greater horror than the United States. Racism occurs daily in America. It occurs in the convenient store, the office, at school, etc. What is racism exactly. Dictionaries are not much help on what is meant by th...

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Many people debate about what the definition of a patriot is. The Webster's dictionary defines it as "love of country and willingness to sacrifice for it." Some people mistake that as meaning to blindly follow whatever the popular political opinion might be that week whether it's raising taxes, ...

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Between the years of 1825-1850, democratic ideals were greatly expanded by reform movements in the United States. These were the years of the Jacksonian Democracy, which mainly stressed universal manhood suffrage, public education, majority rule and the abolition of debtor prisons. President Jackson...

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Reparations, according to New Webster's Dictionary, is an amends for a wrong doing or for causing an injury. Presently many African-Americans, who are descendents of African slaves, are asking for reparations from the United States government. Basically they want money from the United States for th...

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In the dictionary definition, democracy "is government by the people in which the supreme power is vested in the people and exercised directly by them or by their elected agents under a free electoral system." ...

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According to Nolo's Plain-English Law Dictionary, "... a defendant is innocent until proven guilty" (Cornell Law). ... According the Cambridge definition, "information or ideas that are spread by an organized group or government to influence people's opinions, esp. by not giving all the facts" (Cambridge Dictionary), the aforementioned tactics of persuasion by Quindlen and the First Lady consist of propaganda within the feminist community. ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The definition of morality according to the American Heritage Dictionary is a system of ideas of right and wrong conduct. ... The most common form of death during war is through killing, which means to commit murder (American Heritage Dictionary definition). ...

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The Nature of Death Penalty: Cruel And Unusual Audience: People who are interested in or want to know more law related issues One of the hottest debates on capital punishment is whether it is "cruel and unusual" according to the Eighth Amendment in the Constitution. As a pre-law major,...

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Security is, "freedom from risk or danger" (American Heritage Dictionary). ... Biometrics is "the statistical study of biological phenomena" (American Heritage Dictionary) or more commonly known as "a technology that screens human physical features such as fingerprints and eyes to identify people ( Buckler). ...

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Mercantilism, the theory and system of political economy prevailing in Europe after the decline of feudalism, based on national policies of accumulating bullion, establishing colonies and a merchant marine, and developing industry and mining to attain a favorable balance of trade, as defined by The American Heritage ® Dictionary of the English Language, was supposed to be a way for Britain to make itself more powerful and prevalent, but instead benefited the colonies more than it did the Royal Crown. ...

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What is War? The word "war" cannot be defined in one sentence, nor can its meaning be expressed using a few words. The word means more than just a "military conflict between nations or parties," as the dictionary says. War is complex. It arouses feelings of aggression, depression, confusion a...

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Throughout history many people have stepped up to the challenges of leading a nation to independence, guiding a nation through turmoil, rising to the occasion to defend his or her religious beliefs, or by simply putting their lives on the line everyday to protect and secure the safety of others. The...

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Jazz Music What is Jazz? According to the dictionary, jazz is defined as, "A kind of syncopated, highly rhythmic music originated by Southern blacks in the late 19th century". But, everyone should at least agree that jazz is the mother of all music, and is referred to as the only art form origi...

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Americanism Americanism. According to the dictionary it means "a characteristic feature of English as used in the United States." To me it means a lot more than that. It means three main things to me- freedom, all of our needs are met, and responsibility. When I hear the wor...

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