| Attributes |
(In addition to global attributes)
| type |
indicates type of entry, in dictionaries with multiple types. |
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Datatype: CDATA |
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Suggested values include:
| main |
a main entry (default). |
| hom |
a homograph with a separate entry. |
| xref |
a reduced entry whose only function is to point to another main
entry (e.g. for forms of an irregular verb or for variant spellings:
was pointing to be, or
esthete to aesthete). |
| affix |
an entry for a prefix, infix, or suffix. |
| abbr |
an entry for an abbreviation. |
| supplemental |
a supplemental entry (for use in dictionaries which issue
supplements to their main work in which they include updated information
about entries). |
| foreign |
an entry for a foreign word in a monolingual
dictionary. |
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Default: main |
| key |
(sort key)
contains a (sortable) character sequence reflecting
the entry's alphabetical position in the printed dictionary. |
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Datatype: CDATA |
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Values: any sequence of characters which, when sorted with the
other values, will produced the desired order; specifics of key
construction are application-dependent. |
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Default: #IMPLIED |
| Note |
Dictionary order often differs from the collation sequence
of machine-readable character sets; in English-language dictionaries, an
entry for ‘4-H’ will often appear alphabetized under
‘fourh’, and ‘McCoy’ may be alphabetized under
‘maccoy’, while ‘A1’, ‘A4’, and
‘A5’ may all appear in numeric order
`alphabetized' between ‘a-’ and ‘AA’.
The sort key is required if the orthography of the dictionary entry does
not suffice to determine its location.
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