The words in the dictionary are in there to make a note of all words that are spoken so if you do not know what they mean you can look them up. They come from the English Language :)
I doubt it, the English Shorter Dictionary has over 160,000 words and the normal dictionary 220,000 words
all words that are real are in the dictionary!
A dirty dictionary has all the inappropriate words and there meaning.
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A dictionary tell you the meaning and origin of words. A Thesaurus tells you all words of similar meaning.
Hmmwv is not a work in the Collins Gem Dictionary. G would come before hmmwv if it was listed in the dictionary. Hl- would come before it because it's root is hm-.
no
A dictionary has all of them.
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The guide words on top in a dictionary for the word "strange" would likely be "strand" and "strangle." These are the words that come before and after "strange" in alphabetical order.
Probably not. There always seems to be a few words which can be found in one dictionary which are not found in others. What unabridged means is that the dictionary contains all the words which the dictionary writer wrote definitions for. An abridged dictionary contains only those words that an editor thought you would likely need to look up, and leaves out those which are extremely technical or obsolete.
The word "germ" would come before the word "germinate" in the dictionary, as words are typically listed in alphabetical order.