Quote: Roget's thesaurus: given the idea, locate the words which best express the idea; opposite to a dictionary

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The present Work is intended to supply, with respect to the English language, a desideratum hitherto unsupplied in any language; namely, a collection of the words it contains and of the idiomatic combinations peculiar to it, arranged, not in alphabetical order as they are in a Dictionary, but according to the ideas which they express. ... The object aimed at in the present undertaking is exactly the converse of [the dictionary's]; namely,--The idea being given, to find the word, or words, by which that idea may be most fitly and aptly expressed. For this purpose, the words and phrases of the language are here classed, not according to their sound or their orthography, but strictly according to their signification.   Google-1   Google-2

Published before 1923

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Quote: in a thesaurus, words are classified by their signification, by the ideas which they express

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