How to read a dictionary

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How to read a dictionary
Lisa Campbell, Media Specialist
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Entry Word

• lighthouse
• lighthouse
• Pronunciation 'lIt-"hausFunction noun1 a
  structure (as a tower) with a powerful light that
  gives a continuous or intermittent signal to
  navigators 2 Beacon

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The word is broken intosyllables by a dot.
lighthouse lighthouse Pronunciation
'lIt-"hausFunction noun1 a structure (as a
tower) with a powerful light that gives a
continuous or intermittent signal to navigators
2 Beacon
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Pronunciation

• lighthouse
• lighthouse Pronunciation 'lIt-"hausFunction
  noun1 a structure (as a tower) with a powerful
  light that gives a continuous or intermittent
  signal to navigators 2 Beacon

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Great tool!
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Like a secret code!
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Part of speech noun (n.), verb (v.), adjective
(adj.),or adverb (adv.) is added.

• Lighthouse
• lighthouse Pronunciation 'lIt-"haus
• Function noun
• 1 a structure (as a tower) with a powerful
  light
• that gives a continuous or intermittent signal to
  navigators
• 2 Beacon

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Definition

• This is the main part of the entry. There may be
  several definitions of the word.

• lighthouse
• lighthouse Pronunciation 'lIt-"hausFunction
  noun1 a structure (as a tower) with a powerful
  light that gives a continuous or intermittent
  signal to navigators 2 Beacon

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Lets practice choosing the right definition
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Our house faces a park.

1. The front part of the head
2. The main side of something
3. To meet with courage

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Wolves usually live in a pack.

• To put into a box for carrying
• A group that is alike

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He parts his hair in the middle.

• A role in a movie
• Share of work
• To comb so that a part forms

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The rain pelted the roof.

• The skin of an animal
• To strike or beat against again and again

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The horse reared up.

• To rise on hind legs
• To help grow up
• The place behind the front

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Guide Words!
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Are really cheat codes

• So you can zip to the right page
• faster than lightening!

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They are at the top of each page

• The first guide word is the first word on that
  page
• The second guide word is the last word on that
  page

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All the words on the page fit between those two
words!
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Which words would be on this page

• five
• flame
• fizz
• flake

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Which words would be on this page

• soda
• snip
• sock
• snob

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Which words would be on this page

• hockey
• home
• honey
• hog

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Does the dictionary stay the same year after year?
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Our English language is constantly changing!

• NO!

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English 1000 years ago and now

• Þú scealt þá cýe meolcian
• ond ic sceal út gán þá hors tó findenne
• Gesáwe þú þá scipu?
• Hí seglað tó Denemearce.

• You milk the cows,
• and I'll go out and find the horses.
• Did you see the ships?
• They sail to Denmark.

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• Captain Cook brought kangaroo and boomerang
  to our language.
• Sir Francis Drake brought igloo and banana.
• American Indians added moose moccasin,
  wigwam

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• German settlers brought noodle, pretzel,
  kindergarten
• Dutch settlers brought stoop, golf, wagon
• French settlers brought chowder, prairie,
  toboggan
• Spanish settlers brought canyon, ranch
  alligator

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And thousands more words from every country!
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New words each decade!

• 1940s

• Bikini
• Cheeseburger
• Jet plane
• Spaceship
• Fax
• Tape recorder
• Long-playing
• Quiz show
• TV

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New words each decade!

• 1950s

• Beatnik
• Bermuda shorts
• Computerize
• Junk mail
• Weirdo
• Poliovirus
• aerospace

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New words each decade!

• 1960s

• Cable television
• Hippie
• Instant replay
• Jet lag
• Pantsuit
• Peacenik
• Sitcom
• Space shuttle

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New words each decade!

• 1970s

• Chairperson
• Detox
• Infomercial
• Personal computer
• Video game
• Gas-guzzler
• Punk rock

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New words each decade!

• 1980s

• Automated teller machine - ATM
• Compact disk
• In-line skate
• Mall rat
• Virtual reality
• Glass ceiling

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New words each decade!

• 1990s

• Mc job
• Scrunchy
• Intranet
• Carjacking
• Nanotube
• website

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New words each decade!

• Recent!

• Blamestorming
• Mouse potato
• Chillax
• Vuvuzela
• Micro-blogging
• Tweet up
• Defriend