0 a book that contains a list of words in alphabetical order and that explains their meanings, or gives a word for them in another language; a similar product for use on a computer -- 字典，詞典
a French-English/English-French dictionary 法英／英法詞典
a bilingual/monolingual dictionary 雙語／單語詞典
To check how a word is spelled, look it up in a dictionary. 要確定單詞的拼法就查詞典。
a biographical/science dictionary 人名／科技詞典
a dictionary of quotations 引語詞典
"Is that the correct spelling?" "I don't know - look it up in a dictionary."
In this dictionary, verbs which are intransitive are marked [I].
This dictionary went online in 1999.
Notes on how to use this dictionary can be found at the beginning of the book.
I recently heard a radio presenter refer to dictionaries as babble-babble.
The most common results, then, are books that are something like dictionaries, something like encyclopedias and, often, something like cabinets of curiosities.
The divergence can most easily be seen if we compare the definitions of abduction in some recent dictionaries of linguistics and of philosophy.
