att.entryLike

att.entryLike provides attributes used to distinguish different styles of dictionary entries. [9.1 Dictionary Body and Overall Structure 9.2 The Structure of Dictionary Entries]
Moduledictionaries — Dictionaries
Membersentry entryFree superEntry
AttributesAttributesatt.typed (type, @subtype)
typeindicates type of entry, in dictionaries with multiple types.
Status Optional
Datatype teidata.enumerated
Suggested values include:
main
a main entry (default). [Default]
hom
(homograph) groups information relating to one homograph within an entry.
xref
(cross reference) 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
(abbreviation) 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.
Note

The global n attribute may be used to encode the homograph numbers attached to entries for homographs.