The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language

1969 ◽  
Vol 3 (4) ◽  
pp. 357 ◽  
Author(s):  
Barbara F. Matthies ◽  
William Morris
Keyword(s):  
English Language ◽  
American Heritage Dictionary ◽  
American Heritage

Privacy, Confidentiality, and Security for PDAs

2003 ◽  
Vol 38 (4) ◽  
pp. 387-388 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bill G. Felkey ◽  
Brent I. Fox
Keyword(s):  
Private Information ◽  
English Language ◽  
American Heritage Dictionary ◽  
American Heritage ◽  
Unauthorized Disclosure

The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language defines the terms that are the subjects of this article. Privacy is defined as the quality or condition of being secluded from the presence or view of others. Confidentiality involves preventing the unauthorized disclosure of private information to others. Security seeks freedom from risk or danger, in a word, safety. In this article, we discuss these terms in relation to PDA technology.

The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language

1970 ◽  
Vol 41 (3) ◽  
pp. 246
Author(s):  
Edith C. Rinehart ◽  
William Morris
Keyword(s):  
English Language ◽  
American Heritage Dictionary ◽  
American Heritage

scholarly journals THE CONCEPTS SAFETY/SECURITY AND ITS REPRESENTATION IN ENGLISH LANGUAGE

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (9(77)) ◽  
pp. 23-25
Author(s):  
Liudmyla Yasnohurska
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
English Language ◽  
The Core ◽  
American Heritage Dictionary ◽  
Is Security ◽  
The World ◽  
American Heritage ◽  
General Meaning ◽  
International Dictionary

The article is devoted to studying the peculiarities of the lexical verbalization of the concepts SAFETY/SECURITY in the Eng­lish language worldview on the basis of the comparative analysis of their components, including the basic elements and their de­rivatives. The author supposes that the scope of the concepts SAFETY/SECURITY in the English language worldview is based on the general meaning “protection, protection from risks, threats or lack of them”. It is security that is the cornerstone that ensures the stable functioning of a human in society and society itself as a whole. In this regard, the problem of perception and understanding of SAFETY/SECURITY concept is becoming especially relevant in today’s society. This article examines the implementation of the SAFETY/SECURITY concept in the English language picture of the world. The purpose of this study is to set the boundaries of the SAFETY/SECURITY concept in English on the basis of a study of the categorical definitions related to safety / security that make up the core of the concept and their derivatives. The following dictionaries were used for the study: The MacMillan English Dictionary, The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, the Cambridge International Dictionary of English, the Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English.

`The Kid' Has a Name

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1983 ◽  
Vol 72 (6) ◽  
pp. 913-913
Author(s):  
JAMES S. RAWLINGS
Keyword(s):  
English Language ◽  
Young Person ◽  
Old Norse ◽  
American Heritage Dictionary ◽  
American Heritage

To the Editor.— As defined in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language (Boston, Houghton Mifflin Co, 1979): Kid (kid) n. 1. A young goat. 2. Leather made from the skin of a young goat. 3. Slang. a. A child. b. A young person. -adj. 1. Made of kid. 2. Informal. Younger: My kid brother. -tr. Informal. 1. To mock playfully; to tease. 2. To deceive in fun; to fool. English kide, kyde from Old Norse kidh, young goat.

Semantic Features of ‘Noodle’ and its Related Words

Lexicon ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Cahyo Ramadhani
Keyword(s):  
English Language ◽  
Related Word ◽  
Semantic Feature ◽  
Semantic Features ◽  
Componential Analysis ◽  
American Heritage Dictionary ◽  
American Heritage ◽  
The Common ◽  
Academic Content

The word „noodle‟ has different definitions in English dictionaries. The variety of definitions influences the variety of meaning, thus the variety of semantic features of the word. Furthermore, it influences whether a related word could be considered as „noodle‟. To identify the common semantic features of the word „noodle‟, the data are the word „noodle‟ and its definitions in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language (AHDEL), Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary (CACD), Funk & Wagnalls Standard Dictionary of English Language (FWSDEL), Merriam-Webster Dictionary (MWD), and Oxford Advanced Learner‟s Dictionary (OALD). To identify if the common semantic features of „noodle‟ are present in noodle-related words, 39 words having the sense “noodle” were collected from Dictionary of Food. The data were analyzed using componential analysis based on theLyons' statement that words and phrases are built upon sense-components. Therefore, the data are broken down into blocks of semantic features, and then marked + if the semantic feature is present, marked +/- if the semantic feature is unlikely present, and marked – if the semantic feature is not present. The result is that the word „noodle‟ in the dictionaries has the ᴍ.ғ. ғʟᴏᴜʀ, ᴍ.ᴡ. ᴇɢɢ, and ʀɪʙʙᴏɴ features in common, with the ʀɪʙʙᴏɴ feature present in all dictionaries, thus the most important semantic feature of „noodle‟. Regarding the 39 noodle-related words, 13 words meet the most important semantic feature of „noodle‟, but only 4 words meet all the common semantic features of „noodle‟, yet 11 words do not meet the common semantic features at all. In brief, the common semantic features of „noodle‟ are not the prerequisite for any word to mean “noodle”.

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