| LC control no. | gf2022026048 |
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| Thesaurus/term list | lcgft |
| Genre/Form term | Subject dictionaries |
| Variant(s) | Single-field dictionaries Subject-specific dictionaries |
| See also | Dictionaries |
| Found in | Work cat.: Earl, Richard. The concise Oxford dictionary of mathematics, 2021 (a subject dictionary) RootsWeb, July 1, 2022: Subject Dictionaries (Subject dictionaries explain terms associated with specialized subject fields, occupations, or professions. They define unique terms and words not usually found in general dictionaries. There are law dictionaries, mathematics dictionaries, music dictionaries, and genealogical dictionaries. Specialized dictionaries can be found in most library reference collections and should not be overlooked by family historians) Subject headings manual, via WWW, July 1, 2022: H 1540, p. 3 (Subject dictionaries; works consisting of comprehensive, alphabetical lists of terms pertaining to those subjects, usually with definitions) Wikipedia, July 1, 2022: Single-field dictionary (A single-field dictionary is a specialized dictionary that has been designed and compiled to cover the terms of one particular subject field; Examples of single-field dictionaries are a dictionary of law, a dictionary of economics and a dictionary of welding) Dictionary (A broad distinction is made between general and specialized dictionaries. Specialized dictionaries include words in specialist fields, rather than a complete range of words in the language; The word dictionary (unqualified) is usually understood to refer to a general purpose monolingual dictionary) Glosbe dictionary website, July 1, 2022 (subject dictionary; subject-specific dictionary) |
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