Q: Are dictionaries supposed to be semasiological? ¶
A: Yes, and mapping word to definition, while specialized dictionaries are supposed to be onomasiological, first identifying concepts and then establishing the terms used to designate them.
Q: Was a dictionary the long-lost 682 CE Niina glossary of Chinese characters? ¶
A: Yes.
Q: Are dictionaries most commonly found in the form of a book? ¶
A: Yes, but some newer dictionaries, like StarDict and the New Oxford American Dictionary are dictionary software running on PDAs or computers.
Q: Were dictionaries Akkadian Empire cuneiform tablets with bilingual Sumerian–Akkadian wordlists? ¶
A: Yes, and discovered in Ebla and dated roughly 2300 BCE.
Q: Is a dictionary respelled as "dĭk′shə-nĕr′ē" in the American Heritage Dictionary? ¶
A: Yes.
Q: Was a dictionary an ex-army surgeon? ¶
A: Yes, and William Chester Minor, a convicted murderer who was confined to an asylum for the criminally insane.
Q: Is a dictionary a specific kind of descriptive dictionary which describes the development of words and senses over time? ¶
A: Yes, and usually using citations to original source material to support its conclusions.
Q: Are dictionaries used to control machine translations or cross-lingual information retrieval the content is usually multilingual and usually of huge size? ¶
A: Yes.
Q: Are dictionaries also considered by some to be less than objectively descriptive? ¶
A: Yes.
Q: Were dictionaries compiled between the 8th and 14th centuries CE, organizing words in rhyme order , by alphabetical order of the radicals, or according to the alphabetical order of the first letter? ¶
A: Yes, The modern system was mainly used in specialist dictionaries, such as those of terms from the Qur'an and hadith, while most general use dictionaries, such as the Lisan al-`Arab and al-Qamus al-Muhit listed words in the alphabetical order of the radicals.
Q: Is a dictionary "at war with itself": whereas its coverage and glosses are descriptive and colloquial? ¶
A: Yes, and its vocalization is prescriptive.
Q: Was a dictionary A Table Alphabeticall? ¶
A: Yes, and written by English schoolteacher Robert Cawdrey in 1604.
Q: Was a dictionary produced? ¶
A: Yes.