| Attributes | In addition to global attributes| type | indicates type of entry, in dictionaries with multiple types.| Status | Required when applicable | | Datatype | | | 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).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. |
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| | sortKey | contains a (sortable) character sequence reflecting the entry's alphabetical
position in the printed dictionary.| Status | Optional | | Datatype | | | Values | any sequence of characters which, when sorted with the other values, will
produced the desired order; specifics of sort key construction are application-dependent. | | 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,
andA5 may 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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