When I need to know the meaning of a word, I look it up in a dictionary.
A 'philosophical dictionary' is not a dictionary of philosophy that you use to look up obscure thinkers or recondite terms. It is a collection of brief and pithy essays on diverse topics, informed by one vision, and usually arranged in alphabetical order.
I bought a dictionary. First thing I did was, I looked up the word "dictionary", and it said "you're an asshole".
The 'EU in a Nutshell' is a miscellany of facts and anecdotes about the system which rules us. It's a book you can delve into in pursuit of a particular fact, or crack open for entertainment at virtually any page.
I'm a massive fan of the dictionary.
The trouble with the dictionary is that you have to know how a word is spelled before you can look it up to see how it is spelled.
I was reading the dictionary. I thought it was a poem about everything.
My father’s contemporaries, the white ones…had made laws that he must carry a reference book. They also made a law that an Alsatian dog must have a certain ticket on his neck (a dog license) and he must also carry a ‘reference book’. That Alsatian dog was going to die without ever deciding a law that governs his life. So was my father…The discomfort of prison cells is better than the emptiness of walking in the streets as if you were free when you are a dog in the land of your birth.
My favorite books are a constantly changing list, but one favorite has remained constant: the dictionary. Is the word I want to use spelled practice or practise? The dictionary knows. The dictionary also slows down my writing because it is such interesting reading that I am distracted.
I always like to have an atlas just so that I can find things out. It's always good to have an almanac; those sort of things.
They have a book of locations, and we would do a story about the Sahara Desert for instance, and in the California book you would find a comparable location, to match that location in California.
Dictionary: The universe in alphabetical order.
The bible of cooking. The all-time argument ender. Early in my cooking career, I wielded my Larousse like a weapon and it never let me down.
I was given a dictionary when I was seven, and I read it because I had nothing else to read. I read it the way you read a book.
A lot of people use the dictionary to find out how to spell words.
What's another word for Thesaurus?
I actually tried to learn the dictionary at one point. It didn't work; I only got through the first few pages.
Every time I have to look up a word in the dictionary, I'm delighted.
I once tried to read the dictionary. It didn't work.
