Using a dictionary

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Why use a dictionary?

The Age of the Dictionary - The History of English (7/10)

Why use a dictionary?

Content

Study your dictionaryUsing an English-English

dictionary

Phonetic symbols

a. Homeb. Fivec. Paged. See / seae. Armf. Too / twog. Cuph. Thini. Thenj. Shek. Englishl. Experience

Revision - I love you!Many words express a strong feeling of affection: kjærlighet (love, the noun), følelser (feelings), å ønske (desire), å være forelska (to be in love), kjærlighet ved første blikk (love at first sight), omhet (tenderness), kjæreste (boyfriend/girlfriend). Å være kjæreste in Norway is a much stronger relationship than a boyfriend or girlfriend in England for example.

Symbols and abbreviations

What symbols and abbreviations are used after words? For example; subst. /lʌv/. What do they mean?

Look up the word “Love” in OrdnettHow many references are there?

Pronunciation (br.) (am.) verb (elske, være glad) noun (kjærlighet, forelskelse)

Study your dictionary and Ordnett+

What type of information does ordnett+ give you?

Are there any types of extra functions in the online dictionaries that you do not find in a regular dictionary?

Does the information differ between the dictionaries?

What do these phrases and expressions mean? Raining cats and dogs Mad as a hatter Crocodile tears To throw in the towel To

throw the book at someone

To make no bones about Without rhyme or reason To break the ice To make hay while the

sun shines

Raining cats and dogs

(luke i demning) lock gate, floodgate, sluice gate, sluice

EKSEMPEL ● det regner som om alle himmelens sluser er åpne the rain is pouring down / it is raining cats and dogs

Mad as a hatter!

informal completely insane.

[with reference to Lewis Carroll's character the Mad Hatter in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865), the allusion being to the effects of mercury poisoning from the use of mercurous nitrate in the manufacture of felt hats.]

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Crocodile tears

plural noun tears or expressions

of sorrow that are insincere.See ▶more examples

– ORIGIN mid 16th cent.

: said to be so named from a belief that crocodiles wept while devouring or luring their prey.

To throw in the towel

(overført) kaste inn håndkledet, gi opp, gi tapt

To throw the book at someone informal charge or punish

(someone) as severely as possible

To make no bones about it

have no hesitation in stating or dealing with (something), however unpleasant or awkward it is: he makes no bones about his feelings towards the militants

Without rhyme or reason

PHRASES rhyme or reason [with negative] logical explanation or reason: without rhyme or reason his mood changed.

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To break the ice

Make hay while the sun shines benytte anledningen,

utnytte situasjonen

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To take the wind out of someone’s sails

To wind someone up To put the wind up someone To break wind

Does wind have the same pronunciation here?

Abbreviations

Interpreting Graphs

Book sales 2002-2011 Book sales Jan-Dec 2011

Now decide which parts of the above graphs, showing the sales of a book between 2002 and 2011, can be described using the verbs given.

Exercise 3

Exercise 4

Exercise 5 Taking notes

Look at the symbols above and match them with their meanings

Meanings SYMBOLThis is an important point  *Is approximately equal to  ≈Is not, does not equal  ≠And, plus  +Is, equals  =Because  At  @Is more than  >Is less than  <MaleFemale  Therefore, so   And  &The same word as above  ”

Exercise 6

Abb meaning i.e.  that is e.g.  for example cf.  compare/contrast c  about, approximately no.  number pp  pages

Exercise 7Language of Literature Using your dictionary (Page R30/Ordnett+) find

out what these words mean. Give an example.

Figurative language Example/meaningImagery MetaphorAllegoryPersonification

Patterns of Sound Example/meaningAlliterationAssonanceOnomatopoeia