| Attributes: | | type | indicates type of entry, in dictionaries with multiple types. | | Datatype: CDATA | | Legal values: | | 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. |
| | Default: "main" | | key | (sort key) contains a (sortable) character sequence reflecting
the entry's alphabetical position in the printed dictionary. | | Datatype: CDATA | | Values: any sequence of characters which, when sorted with the
other values, will produced the desired order; specifics of key
construction are application-dependent. | | 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 which 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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