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Example sentences for "vocabularies"

Lexicographically close words:
vobis; vobiscum; vocable; vocables; vocabula; vocabulary; vocabulum; vocal; vocalic; vocalism
  1. In fact, this very word, or Cauliban, is given in one of the Gipsy vocabularies for "black.

  2. I have heard of vocabularies in use among crypto-Rommanies, or those who having risen from the roads live a secret life, so to speak, but I have never seen one.

  3. Any man who wished to learn sufficient Gipsy to maintain a conversation, and thereby learn all the language, could easily have done so half a century ago from the vocabularies published by Bright and other writers.

  4. Vocabularies of the Oregon or Chinook jargon have been repeatedly published since 1838, when the Rev.

  5. A comparison of languages by means of the vocabularies of the two continents, yields no such correspondence.

  6. The habit of invariably speaking with the lips open is the source of very curious modifications in the Iroquois vocabularies when compared with that of the Wyandots.

  7. A review of the terms of art in the diverse aboriginal vocabularies would furnish an interesting supplement to the general question of the manifestation of an artistic faculty, and the evidences of appreciation of art among savage races.

  8. At that date two vocabularies of the language were obtained, which furnish satisfactory evidence of the correctness of their classification among southern Iroquois tribes.

  9. But beyond the general structure, there is no such evidence of affinity, either in the vocabularies or grammar, as direct affiliation might be expected to show.

  10. We look in vain in their vocabularies for terms of science, or for names adapted to the arts and manufactures on which social progress depends.

  11. In the Synopsis of the Indian Tribes, to which these vocabularies form an appendix, Gallatin classed both the Tuteloes and the Nottoways, along with the Tuscaroras, as southern Iroquois tribes.

  12. We shall have to find some new definition first, for such words as success, wealth, honesty, courage, honor and the long list in the vocabularies which the pupils in every school make for themselves.

  13. Perhaps she learns from our vocabularies the words and phrases which so often appear in her own.

  14. It is our belief that there are today several living races of men whose vocabularies are limited to about 300 words.

  15. Both grays and Amazons often talk with great fluency, vocabularies having been reported of as many as one hundred words.

  16. With these facts in mind such suggestions as an attentive study of vocabularies has disclosed are naturally put forward with a full sense of their uncertainty, they are of a purely tentative nature.

  17. Most of the vocabularies here printed (many of them for the first time) were intended for the use of schoolmasters, and throw great light on the means and methods of teaching during the periods at which they were compiled.

  18. It is this circumstance of grouping the words under different heads which gives these vocabularies their value as illustrations of the conditions and manners of society.

  19. All the subsequent vocabularies given here belong, as far as the language is concerned, to the fifteenth century.

  20. The following five quotations from vocabularies prove the early meaning of the word in the Port Jackson district, and its varying uses at later dates elsewhere.

  21. There is no doubt that the vocabularies used in different parts of Australia and Tasmania varied greatly, and equally little doubt that the languages, in structure and perhaps originally in vocabulary, were more or less connected.

  22. It is beyond all doubt that the vocabularies of the Aborigines differed widely in different parts.

  23. Also Professor Holden, on the Vocabularies of Children, in Proc.

  24. Hale's Indians of Northwest America and Vocabularies of North America.

  25. While no vocabularies were collected on the Fort Hall Reservation among either the Shoshone or Bannock populations, data from informants on the similarity of Paiute and Bannock more than confirm Steward's statement (1938, p.

  26. It might perhaps be possible some day to affiliate the various tribes, when the vocabularies had all been collected and compared by a good philological scholar, but at present there was much uncertainty on the subject.

  27. This is true whether the learning be directed to such habits as the acquisition of vocabularies in a foreign language or to skill in the use of a typewriter.

  28. In learning French vocabularies he may have only a good immediate memory, whereas his memory for faces may be most lasting.

  29. The other Vocabularies or "Tables" of the Appendix seem also to have been prepared with sound judgment and much painstaking, but we cannot dwell upon them.

  30. The "Pronouncing Vocabularies of Modern Geographical and Biographical Names, by J.

  31. Thomas on various points, general and particular, we must allow that his vocabularies are as yet the only ones of the kind which approximate with any nearness to the character of an authoritative standard.

  32. And the vocabularies, the precious vocabularies gathered from Council Bluffs to Clatsop, were taken by Jefferson and carefully laid away for future study.

  33. And so Lewis noted in his book of memorandum, "Vocabularies of Indian languages.

  34. Moreover in Copto-Arabic vocabularies it is omitted from its proper place at the end of the New Testament, all the other books being taken in order.

  35. There are languages within languages, the dialects of localities, the jargon of professional and trade groups, the special pronunciations and special and overlapping vocabularies of different social classes.

  36. Extensive vocabularies of the Tarahumare and Tepehuane languages, as well as a vocabulary of the now almost extinct Tubares, were among the results of this expedition, besides anthropological measurements, samples of hair and osseous remains.

  37. I also completed my collection of vocabularies and aboriginal melodies.


  38. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "vocabularies" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.