Dictionaries (was Re: I just heard another one)

Subject: Dictionaries (was Re: I just heard another one)
From: "Downing, David" <DavidDowning -at- users -dot- com>
To: <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com>
Date: Mon, 15 Dec 2008 12:57:33 -0600

From: "Kate Hough" <krhough -at- gmail -dot- com>
Subject: Re: I just heard another one

[snip]

though I'm
operating under the possibly erroneous assumption that lower numbers
beside
definitions mean that the definitions in question are more commonly used
and
widely accepted than those preceded by higher numbers).

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As I understand it, some dictionaries to this, but not all of them. I
believe some of them go from oldest to newest definition. And I think
some put all the nouns before all the verbs.
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