headword
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5++LDOCE 5++head·word /ˈhedwɜːd $ -wɜːrd/ noun [countable] technical TCNone of the words whose meaning is explained in a dictionary 〔词典中的〕词目，首词
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headword• Collocations are similar to dictionary definitions in as much as they can be expressed as a headword followed by a list of semantically related words.• The irregular inflection will be presented as a headword with a reference to the appropriate root form.• The format is also comparable, i.e. a headword followed by a list of related words in parentheses.• A typical problem might be to answer the question: How many headwords belong to more than one part of speech?• For example, the editor will need to check lists of headwords which begin with lower-case letters.• To reduce overheads when making security copies only headword lemmas are placed in this table.• The lemmatised form is simply a convenient representation of the headword lemma.• For example under the headword child is the information that the plural is children rather than childs.head·word nounChineseSyllable
one meaning of the is words whose in Corpus explained
headword
head‧word /ˈhedwɜːd $ -wɜːrd/
noun [countable] technical
one of the words whose meaning is explained in a dictionary
head‧word /ˈhedwɜːd $ -wɜːrd/
noun [countable] technicalone of the words whose meaning is explained in a dictionary