thesaurus
词库,术语库,辞典,术语表
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plural the·sau·rus·es, the·sau·ri [-sawr-ahy]. /-ˈsɔr aɪ/.
- : a dictionary of synonyms and antonyms, such as the online Thesaurus.com.
- : any dictionary, encyclopedia, or other comprehensive reference book.
- : a storehouse, repository, or treasury.
- : Computers. an index to information stored in a computer, consisting of a comprehensive list of subjects concerning which information may be retrieved by using the proper key terms.a dictionary of synonyms and antonyms stored in memory for use in word processing.
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A thesaurus is a handy thing, but sometimes seemingly tiny differences in meaning can actually have a huge impact.
Instead, day after day I turn to all the wonderful dictionaries, thesauruses, and weird twists on them that are out there on the internet.
Had Palin scoured a thesaurus, she could not have come up with a more inflammatory phrase.
Hickes' transcript of the Calendar (Thesaurus, I, 203) shows an average of one error in every six lines.
Thus the ancient Runic inscriptions, as we gather from Hickes's Thesaurus, are in the form of a knot.
The new thought of a treasury of merits (thesaurus meritorum) introduced further changes.
The work, however, on which his fame as a scholar is most surely based is the Thesaurus Graecae linguae.
John Starke himself, with his Thesaurus of Horror, never penned anything so deliciously frightful.