lexis

n.
The total set of words in a language as distinct from morphology; vocabulary.

[Greek, speech, word. See lexicon.]

(LEK-sis)

noun
The total set of words in a language as distinct from morphology; vocabulary.

Etymology
Greek, speech, word.

Usage
"It might fairly be argued that the different concentrations of lexis found in, say, the Beowulf poet, Chaucer and Shakespeare in essence reflect this expansion of the word-stock." — Geoffrey Hughes, The Diction of Poetry: An Overview, English Studies in Africa, 1 Jan 1999.

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lexis, a term used in linguistics to designate the total vocabulary of a language, or sometimes the vocabulary used in a particular text (see diction). The adjective lexical means ‘of vocabulary’ or sometimes ‘of dictionaries’. A lexicon is a dictionary, while a lexicographer is a person who compiles dictionaries and is thus a practitioner of lexicography.

LEXIS is a computerized legal research service operated by a private corporation, Mead Data Central, Inc. It contains the full text of all Supreme Court decisions from 1790 to the present. The Court electronically transmits its decisions to the LEXIS database on the same day they are made. LEXIS users can access either the citations or the full text of particular Supreme Court decisions and print them out. United States Law Week, a weekly publication providing current news about Supreme Court personnel and proceedings, is part of the LEXIS database.

See also WESTLAW

This entry contains information applicable to United States law only.

An on-line legal information service that provides the full text of opinions and statutes in electronic format. Subscribers use their personal computers to search the LEXIS database for relevant cases. They may download or print the legal information they retrieve.

The LEXIS service began in 1973. In 1979 the LEXIS service was joined by the companion NEXIS® news and information service. LEXIS contains about 4,800 legal sources, and NEXIS contains 8,700 news and information sources. The services add approximately 9.5 million documents each week to their more than one billion documents on-line.

The LEXIS service contains major archives of federal and state case law, statutes of all fifty states, state and federal regulations, and public records from major U.S. states. The LEXIS service has forty-one specialized libraries covering all major fields of practice, including tax, securities, banking, environmental, energy, and international law. Group files combine legal information from all jurisdictions and, where appropriate, add sources of relevant business, financial, or general news.

LEXIS also has a public records service that provides on-line access to information from selected states about real and personal property assets, Uniform Commercial Code liens, secretary of state corporation filings, a verdicts and settlements library, and court indices and dockets.

The company is a division of Reed Elsevier Inc., part of Reed Elsevier plc, a group of international publishing and information businesses with headquarters in London. LEXIS-NEXIS is based in Dayton, Ohio.

See: computer-assisted legal research; WESTLAW.

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Dansk (Danish)
n. - ordforråd

Nederlands (Dutch)
woorden(schat), alle woorden van een taal

Français (French)
n. - lexique

Deutsch (German)
n. - Wortschatz

Ελληνική (Greek)
n. pl. - λεξιλόγιο

Italiano (Italian)
lessico

Português (Portuguese)
n. pl. - vocabulário (m)

Русский (Russian)
лексика, словарный состав

Español (Spanish)
n. - vocabulario

Svenska (Swedish)
n. pl. - ordförråd, lexikon

中文（简体）(Chinese (Simplified))
某一种语言的辞汇导向

中文（繁體）(Chinese (Traditional))
n. - 某一種語言的辭匯導向

한국어 (Korean)
n. - 어휘, 용어집, 어휘론

日本語 (Japanese)
n. - 語彙

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(الجمع) جميع كلمات أيه لغه‏

עברית (Hebrew)
n. - ‮אוצר מלים‬

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