What does just mean?
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What does just mean? - The Free Dictionary
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(a just and lasting peace a kind and just man a just reward his just inheritance)
(I was merely asking it is simply a matter of time just a scratch he was only a child hopes that last but a moment)
(equitable treatment of all citizens an equitable distribution of gifts among the children)
(he was doing precisely (or exactly) what she had told him to do it was just as he said--the jewel was gone it has just enough salt)
(a fair referee fair deal on a fair footing a fair fight by fair means or foul)
(he has just arrived the sun just now came out)
(a genuinely good person a just cause an upright and respectable man)
(I just can't take it anymore he was just grand as Romeo it's simply beautiful!)
(they could barely hear the speaker we hardly knew them just missed being hit had scarcely rung the bell when the door flew open would have scarce arrived before she would have found some excuse to leave)
(we've just finished painting the walls, so don't touch them)
Other vocabulary
j, j particle, j. b. rhine, j. b. s. haldane, j. c. maxwell, j. craig ventner, j. d. salinger, j. e. johnston, j. edgar hoover, j. j. hill, j. m. barrie, j. m. synge, j. p. morgan, j. r. firth, j.r.r. tolkien, jab, jabalpur, jabat al-tahrir al-filistiniyyah, jabber, jabberer, jabbering, jabberwocky, jabbing, jabiru, jabiru mycteria, jaboncillo, jabot, jaboticaba, jaboticaba tree, jacamar, u, u-boat, u-drive, u-shaped, u-turn, u. s. air force, u. s. army, u. s. army special forces, u. s. coast guard, u. s. code, u.k., u.s., u.s. army criminal investigation laboratory, u.s. congress, u.s. constitution, u.s. government, u.s. house, u.s. house of representatives, u.s. mint, u.s. national library of medicine, u.s. senate, u.s. waters, u.s.a., u308, uakari, ubermensch, ubiety, ubiquinone, ubiquitous, ubiquitousness
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A broad distinction is made between general and specialized dictionaries. Specialized dictionaries include words in specialist fields, rather than a complete range of words in the language. Lexical items that describe concepts in specific fields are usually called terms instead of words, although there is no consensus whether lexicology and terminology are two different fields of study. In theory, general dictionaries are supposed[citation needed] to be semasiological, mapping word to definition, while specialized dictionaries are supposed to be onomasiological, first identifying concepts and then establishing the terms used to designate them. In practice, the two approaches are used for both types. There are other types of dictionaries that do not fit neatly into the above distinction, for instance bilingual (translation) dictionaries, dictionaries of synonyms (thesauri), and rhyming dictionaries. The word dictionary (unqualified) is usually understood to refer to a general purpose monolingual dictionary.
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The first recorded dictionaries date back to Sumerian times around 2300 BCE, in the form of bilingual dictionaries, and the oldest surviving monolingual dictionaries are Chinese dictionaries c. 3rd century BCE. The first purely English alphabetical dictionary was A Table Alphabeticall, written in 1604, and monolingual dictionaries in other languages also began appearing in Europe at around this time. The systematic study of dictionaries as objects of scientific interest arose as a 20th-century enterprise, called lexicography, and largely initiated by Ladislav Zgusta. The birth of the new discipline was not without controversy, with the practical dictionary-makers being sometimes accused by others of having an "astonishing" lack of method and critical-self reflection.
