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  2. World Book Dictionary - Wikipedia

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    The World Book Dictionary is a two-volume English dictionary published as a supplement to the World Book Encyclopedia.It was originally published in 1963 under the editorship of Clarence Barnhart, who wrote definitions for the Thorndike-Barnhart graded dictionary series for children, based on the educational works of Edward Thorndike whom Clarence Barnhart had known and worked with decades before.

  3. Dictionary of American Regional English - Wikipedia

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    The Dictionary of American Regional English (DARE) is a record of American English as spoken in the United States, from its beginnings to the present.It differs from other dictionaries in that it does not document the standard language used throughout the country.

  4. List of contributors to the Oxford English Dictionary - Wikipedia

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    Chief editors of the OED [1]; Name Dates of chief editorship Notes Herbert Coleridge: 1858–61: Preliminary work. Died in office. Frederick J. Furnivall

  5. Sparse dictionary learning - Wikipedia

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    Sparse dictionary learning (also known as sparse coding or SDL) is a representation learning method which aims at finding a sparse representation of the input data in the form of a linear combination of basic elements as well as those basic elements themselves.

  6. "Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious" (/ ˌ s uː p ər ˌ k æ l ɪ ˌ f r æ dʒ ɪ ˌ l ɪ s t ɪ k ˌ ɛ k s p i ˌ æ l ɪ ˈ d oʊ ʃ ə s / ⓘ SOO-pər-KAL-ih ...

  7. .com - Wikipedia

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    The domain com is a top-level domain (TLD) in the Domain Name System (DNS) of the Internet.Created in the first group of Internet domains at the beginning of 1985, its name is derived from the word commercial, [1] indicating its original intended purpose for subdomains registered by commercial organizations.

  8. United States - Wikipedia

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    The first documented use of the phrase "United States of America" is a letter from January 2, 1776. Stephen Moylan, a Continental Army aide to General George Washington, wrote to Joseph Reed, Washington's aide-de-camp, seeking to go "with full and ample powers from the United States of America to Spain" to seek assistance in the Revolutionary War effort.

  9. Kick the bucket - Wikipedia

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    Alternatively, in the moment of death a person stretches their legs (Spanish: Estirar la pata means "to die") and so might kick the bucket placed there. Yet another theory seeks to extend the saying beyond its earliest use in the 16th century with reference to the Latin proverb Capra Scyria, the goat that is said to kick over the pail after being milked (920 in Erasmus' Adagia).

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