A lexicon is a vocabulary list: it does contain words, typically, but it may also contain groups of words such as proper names, brand names, trademarks and other lexical expressions (which may include separators) that only make sense when they are kept together.
A dictionary, especially the 'mental dictionary' consisting of a person's intuitive knowledge of words and their meanings.
in linguistics, the total number of meaningful units {such as words and affixes) of a language.
The vocabulary of e.g. a language or a person - as in: "The English lexicon is mainly made up of foreign words"; "How the lexicon is stored in the mind is a puzzle".
A compilation of words and their meanings in a book (dictionary) or stored in a person's memory (vocabulary). We each have our own personal lexicon, or mental dictionary.
In Bioinformatics, a lexicon refers to a pre-defined list of terms that together completely define the contents of a particular database. (strict.) The component in the grammar which is in bare form a list of words or lexical entries.
A word-book or dictionary. A vocabulary of terms used in connection with a particular subject.
used synonymously with dictionary.
a machine-usable dictionary which contains entries for senses of words in a particular language. Every entry includes syntactic, semantic, and other information; the words of a language.
a language user's knowledge of words
a reference book containing an alphabetical list of words with information about them
a book that lists the meanings of words or terms dealing with a particular subject
a corpus or term bank, a collection of words, phrases and/or terms used in a controlled language
a list of words in a language a vocabulary along with some knowledge of how each word is used
a set of words in a language, so this level contains the set of commands (or tokens) in the language and the rules for how new commands are created
The stock of lexical items, or words, in a language.
Literally, a vocabulary. A collection of terms or characteristics used in a particular profession, subject, or style.
Vocabulary; a dictionary containing all the morphemes in a language and their meanings.
Often called the "mental dictionary," the lexicon is a representation of all knowledge a person has about individual words.
individual dictionary of each person containing words and the underlying concepts of each
Words and morphs, and their meanings, of a language; approximated by a dictionary.
The body of words in a language or work, including their meanings, usage, and distribution. This can refer to an actual book of words, such as a dictionary, or to the mental lexicon that is part of a speaker's linguistic competence. Changes in the lexicon are seen in semantic change, grammatical change, and changes in the appropriate contexts for word use.
dictionary, with greater depth.
A word-book or dictionary; a special vocabulary; a list of words or names.
a complete inventory of the lexical items of a language; a dictionary.
The lexicon of a language is dictionary of all the words in the language, and may contain many types of information about each word, for example, what part of speech it is (its lexical category), and what its distributional properties are.
A lexicon is a list of words used in a given language and perhaps in a special setting. Language packs supplied with OCR Shop XTR contain built in general purpose lexicons. Users may specify a custom lexicon with the user_lexicon parameter.
A linguistic tool with information about the morphological variations and grammatical usage of words.
Set of words and bound morphemes in a language. A literate speaker understands the phonological, orthographic, and semantic shape (pronunciation, spelling, meaning) of these items and also their morphological and grammatical characteristics. Modern English has a cosmopolitan vocabulary, a large lexicon including many morphemes borrowed from other languages, particularly French and Latin. One result of the cultural and political situation after the Norman Conquest (1066) was the borrowing of many French words into English. Lexical differences are common dialect characteristics.
Computer-readable dictionary of attributes.
n. 1. The words of a language and their definitions. 2. In programming, the identifiers, keywords, constants, and other elements of a language that make up its "vocabulary." The ways in which these vocabulary elements can be put together is the syntax of the language. Compare syntax.
A lexicon is usually a list of words together with additional word-specific information, i.e., a dictionary. Lexicon is a word of Greek origin (λεξικόν) meaning vocabulary. When linguists study the lexicon, they study such things as what words are, how the vocabulary in a language is structured, how people use and store words, how they learn words, the history and evolution of words, types of relationships between words as well as how words were created.
Lexicon was a text editor / word processor MS-DOS program that was extremely popular in the Soviet Union and Russia at the end of 1980s and in 1990s. Some estimate that Lexicon was illegally installed on 95% of all Russian PCs. The last version for MS-DOS was 3.0.