Dictionary Definition

Famous quotes containing the words dictionary definition, dictionary and/or definition:

    The much vaunted male logic isn’t logical, because they display prejudices—against half the human race—that are considered prejudices according to any dictionary definition.
    Eva Figes (b. 1932)

    He who eats alone chokes alone.
    Arab proverb, quoted in H.L. Mencken’s Dictionary of Quotations (1942)

    Although there is no universal agreement as to a definition of life, its biological manifestations are generally considered to be organization, metabolism, growth, irritability, adaptation, and reproduction.
    The Columbia Encyclopedia, Fifth Edition, the first sentence of the article on “life” (based on wording in the First Edition, 1935)