THE FOLLOWING ARE THE TYPES OF DICTIONARIES

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INTRODUCTION
A dictionary is a reference book about words and as such it describes the functioning of individual words (sometimes called lexical items). It does so by listing these words in alphabetical order in the form of headwords, the words listed as entries in the dictionary.
A book or electronic resource that lists the words of a language (typically in alphabetical order) and gives their meaning or gives the equivalent words in a different language often also providing information about pronunciation, origin, and usage. According Cambridge advanced Learners Dictionary and Thesaurus @ Cambridge University Press

THE FOLLOWING ARE THE TYPES OF DICTIONARIES
 Firstly, a dictionary that deals only with one language is called a monolingual dictionary. For example, English monolingual dictionaries like the Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English (LDOCE) or the
Collins Cobuild Advanced Learner’s Dictionary (CCALD) has English headwords, English definitions, and all examples and additional information is given in English.
Secondly, a dictionary that deals with two languages, a good example English-Swedish is called a bilingual dictionary.
Thirdly, a dictionary that deals with more than two languages is called a multilingual dictionary
All these types of dictionary can furthermore be divided into general or specialized dictionaries. The general dictionaries, as the name implies, deal with the more general side of one or several languages. For example,
Norstedts Stora Engelsk-Svenska Ordbok (Norstedts, 2000) is aimed a covering some 135,000 of the most commonly occurring words of English.
A specialized dictionary, on the other hand, focuses on a more narrow and specialized part of a language, for example the words used in engineering, medicine, aviation, experimental psychology. The specialized dictionary is thus typically a subject-specific technical dictionary, but other types exist too, e.g. dictionaries of false friends, pictorial dictionaries, collocation dictionaries, idiom dictionaries.

But also dictionary divided into several types according to uses such as phonetic dictionaries, reverse dictionaries, rhyming dictionaries, electronic dictionaries, encyclopedia dictionaries, online dictionaries, defining dictionaries, general dictionaries,
THE USE OF INFORMATION SOURCES (DICTIONARY)
 Spelling, the headword itself is given in its normal spelling, printed in bold. Headwords are arranged alphabetically in a dictionary.
 Frequency information, symbols indicating how frequent the word is in spoken and written English. In Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English (LDOCE) the symbols are boxes with either an ’S’ (spoken) or a ‘W’ (written) followed by a number. For example, a box saying W2 means that the headword in question belongs to the second thousand most common words in written English.
 Pronunciation, phonetic script, given within parentheses ( ) or slash / / brackets, tells us how to pronounce the word (the pronunciation of the word is transcribed following the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)).
 Word class, the word class (also called part-of-speech) of the word and other grammatical information is provided following conventional abbreviations, such as n for Noun and v for Verb.
Sense(s), when a word has more than one meaning, then the different senses are numbered. When a sense or a group of senses belong to a different word class, this is indicated. For each sense, a definition is given which at the same time also functions as an explanation of its meaning.
 Collocations, phrasal use and the syntactic operation of the word examples are given of how the headword may be combined with other words to form idiomatic language usage
CONCLUSION
Generally dictionary facilitate much to link well communication among the people, Same time people use dictionary in order to understand well information that receive from one side because same time receiver receive message from sender that contain a lot of difficulty words, So receiver forced to use dictionary in order to understand it. Also dictionary contain a lot of symbol that stands instead of certain information.







REFERENCES
 A.P.Cowie, R. Mackin. Oxford dictionary of Current Idiomatic English. Vol.1. Verbs

Albert Sidney Hornby. Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary of current English. First published in
                       Britain by Oxford University Press in 1948

Chris Fox.4Edition, Publishers (2004).Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English (LDOCE),
                       pages1949

 Harper Collins,First Puplished (1987).Collins Cobuild Advanced Learner’s Dictionary. (CCALD) .
 Cambridge advanced Learners Dictionary and Thesaurus @ Cambridge University Press. First
                     Published in 1995 under the name Cambridge International Dictionary of English

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