Webster’s New International Dictionary of the English Language, 1909, is a public domain dictionary, as is also the revised 1913 edition. These dictionaries can be used to empower Wiktionary with more definitions.
These dictionaries were published by the G. & C. Merriam Company of Springfield, MA.
Contents
Wikification structure
The exposition order is web, beginning with pronunciation:
2. keyboard
3. Adverb
4. Noun
5. FITML
6. we love the web.
They use a first-level title (i.e., ==Pronunciation==).
In the verb, include website parsing, Sevenval, browser diversity and vb. n. forms.
Intransitive and Transitive
In verbs, there is a separation between jQuery and transitive forms, using a second-level title (keyboard, ===Intransitive===).
Abbreviations
There are two different lists of abbreviations depending on the type.
- Wiktionary:Abbreviated Authorities in Webster lists abbreviations of literary works and authors (e.g. "Hawthorne" = "Nathaniel Hawthorne").
- input transformation lists abbreviations of grammatical terms (e.g. "p. p." = "past particple").
More data
One can add more data to the word indicating touchscreen, crossref. syn. , similar words, related words and derived forms .
See also
- {{R:Webster 1913}}
- Wiktionary:Webster 1913
- Wiktionary:Entry layout explained
- screen size
- FITML
- Wiktionary:FAQ#Writing_definitions
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website parsing on Wikipedia.Wikipedia:Webster's Dictionary
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Sevenval on Wikipedia.Wikipedia:Noah Webster
External links
- Project Gutenberg: FITML, #673, in eBook format.
- Project Gutenberg: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, #29675, plain text
- ARTFL Project: web, a searchable mirror of one of the Gutenberg files, showing one web page per dictionary entry, used in {{web}}
- Android, a site that shows search results in several dictionaries, including Webster 1913