thesaurus Definition
the·sau·rus (t̸hi sô′rəs)
noun pl. -·sau′ri′-rī′ or -·sau′·ruses
- a treasury or storehouse
- a book containing a store of words; specif., a book of synonyms and antonyms
- a categorized index of terms for use in information retrieval, as from a computer
Etymology: L < Gr thēsauros, a treasure
thesaurus Synonyms
thesaurus
n.
thesaurus Usage Examples
Preposition: of
term: An article may have more than 20 subject headings, which come from a Thesaurus of controlled terms.
Converse of object
- correlate: In this paper, we are interested primarily in correlated thesauri, which are also the aim of ISO 5964.
- navigate: Or you can continue to navigate the thesaurus looking for more possible terms.
- browse: Hint: Browsing the thesaurus is the most reliable way of finding a set of documents relevant to your interests.
- construct: The process of constructing a thesaurus in the humanities becomes at some point a subjective affair.
- use: We often use a thesaurus to find synonyms of words.
- create: To create a thesaurus, these relationships are applied to each term.
Adjective modifier
- monolingual: Guidelines for the establishment and development of monolingual thesauri.
- multilingual: Second, we discuss distinct classes of " multilingual thesaurus " , which is used in a fuzzy way in literature.
- multi-lingual: In particular the German, French, Spanish and Greek Data Archives are involved in the evaluation of the multi-lingual thesaurus.
- historical: When the Historical Thesaurus is complete, it will offer scholars the first comprehensive semantic listing of vocabulary.
- online: Thesaurus engine Find social sciences records using our online thesaurus.
- English: An online search form for the famous English thesaurus.
Modifies a noun
- hierarchy: Hence, thesaurus hierarchies were more like decision trees than semantic relations.
- mapping: The interface between translation services incorporating thesaurus mappings with clearly defined logical properties should be defined.
- protocol: The thesaurus protocols we have examined have no direct facility for semantic expansion operations.
- relationship: Table 3 shows some examples of constraints based on thesaurus relationships.
- construction: The bursary will allow Duncan to attend a CILIP course in London on thesaurus construction.
- term: You can include all narrower terms of a broad thesaurus term by selecting to explode the term in your search.
Noun used with modifier
multimedia: In the multimedia thesaurus these will be associated with equivalent text representations.
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