vocabulary 
vo·cabu·lary (vō kab′yə ler′ē)
noun pl. -·lar′·ies
- a list of words and, often, phrases, abbreviations, inflectional forms, etc., usually arranged in alphabetical order and defined or otherwise identified, as in a dictionary or glossary
- all the words of a language
- all the words used by a particular person, socioeconomic group, profession, etc.
- all the words recognized and understood, although not necessarily used, by a particular person
- an interrelated group of nonverbal symbols, signs, gestures, etc. used for communication or expression in a particular art, skill, etc.
Etymology: ML vocabularium < L vocabulum, a word: see vocable
vocabulary
n.
Converse of object
- specialize: They are unlikely to know the specialized vocabulary / terminology you use.
- reinforce: A final plenary session allowed students to reflect on what they had learned and reinforced any new vocabulary learned during the day.
- acquire: She may be delayed in acquiring the vocabulary, syntax, grammar and pragmatics of her age mates.
- enrich: There is also coverage of the huge variety of immigrant languages which have enriched the American vocabulary.
Adjective modifier
- controlled: Many elements of a controlled vocabulary are effectively defined by a software implementation.
- specialized: That's because Berne uses his own specialized vocabulary to describe the transactions involved in games.
- receptive: The main areas of impairment across the group are: receptive vocabulary, formulating sentences, verbal problem solving, literacy.
- restricted: Restricted vocabularies therefore become essential within certain metadata elements.
- descriptive: Ask pupils to compare the accounts in terms of factual information, the writer's viewpoint and the use of descriptive vocabulary.
- geographical: Geographical skills 2a ) To use extended geographical vocabulary.
Modifies a noun
- recognizer: The system is based on the Abbot large vocabulary speech recognizer and a probabilistic text retrieval system.
- decoder: We hope to be able to provide a capable large vocabulary decoder in the medium term.
- acquisition: Vocabulary acquisition is a good exercise here, with the methods referred to above.
- notebook: Making an art vocabulary notebook has proved a very simple solution.
- recognition: The 1995 Abbot hybrid connectionist-HMM large vocabulary recognition system.
- worksheet: Vocabulary Worksheet Factory If you have used the excellent Maths Worksheet Factory then you will want to have a go at this one.
Noun used with modifier
- metadata: This resource provides links to a selection of more than 70 formal metadata vocabularies, most of which are available via the Internet.
- namespace: GABRIELA CAMACHO GONZALEZ March 27th CV: A namespace vocabulary.
- markup: This is far more complex, with multiple markup vocabularies, so requires namespaces - which requires schema.
- sight: Has a sight vocabulary of less than five words.
I used to think I was poor. Then they told me I wasn't poor, I was needy. They told me it was self-defeating to think of myself as needy, I was deprived. Then they told me underprivileged was overused. I was disadvantaged. I still don't have a dime. But I have a great vocabulary.
Those who prefer their English sloppy have only themselves to thank if the advertisement writer uses his mastery of vocabularyand syntax to mislead their weak minds.
Syntax and vocabularyare overwhelming constraintsötherulesthat runus.Language isusing us to talköwe think we're using the language, but language is doing the thinking, we're its slavish agents.
[There is] an undercurrent of emotion bred of the deep acquaintance that can take a landscape and its inhabitantsto be a vocabulary, a set of wordlesssymbols effortlessly shared.
One forgets words as one forgets names.One's vocabulary needs constant fertilizing or it will die.
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