Roget's Thesaurus

Peter Mark Roget

Informations

• Publié par: andi
• Publié le: 08 décembre 2010
• Nombre de lectures: 95
• Langue: English

Extrait

The Project Gutenberg EBook of Roget's
Thesaurus, by Peter Mark Roget
Copyright laws are changing all over the world. Be
sure to check the copyright laws for your country
before downloading or redistributing this or any
other Project Gutenberg eBook.
This header should be the first thing seen when
viewing this Project Gutenberg file. Please do not
remove it. Do not change or edit the header
without written permission.
Please read the "legal small print," and other
information about the eBook and Project
Gutenberg at the bottom of this file. Included is
important information about your specific rights and
restrictions in how the file may be used. You can
also find out about how to make a donation to
Project Gutenberg, and how to get involved.
**Welcome To The World of Free Plain Vanilla
Electronic Texts**
**eBooks Readable By Both Humans and By
Computers, Since 1971**
*****These eBooks Were Prepared By Thousands
of Volunteers!*****
Title: Roget's Thesaurus
Author: Peter Mark Roget
Release Date: December, 1991 [EBook #22] [Most
recently updated: January 5, 2004]
Edition: 15a
Language: English
*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG
EBOOK, ROGET'S THESAURUS ***
This is the Project Gutenberg Etext of Roget's
Thesaurus No. Two
It has not been compared with the roget13.txt so
keep both!!
This edition should be labeled roget15a.txt or
roget15a.zip
*************************************************************************
** Thesaurus-1911 ** ** Version 1.02
(supplemented: July 18, 1991) ***************************************************************************
<— An electronic thesaurus derived from the
version of Roget's Thesaurus published in 1911.
This thesaurus has been prepared by MICRA, Inc.
(May 1991). =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= MICRA,
Inc. makes no representation that the original 1911
printed work on which this is based is now in the
public domain in any particular country. However,
MICRA, Inc. makes no proprietary claims regarding
this electronic version of the 1911 thesaurus. If the
1911 work is currently public domain, this
electronic version can also be treated as public
domain. If any commercial use is made of this
work prior to January 1, 1993, it is suggested that
an appropriate donation be made to MICRA, Inc. to
assist in preparing other such texts which may be
useful. =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
Note that this version of Thesaurus-1911 has been
supplemented with over 1,000 words not present in
the original 1911 edition, but many modern words
are still missing. About 1500 verbs (out of 6500)
which can be found in an 80,000-word spell-
checker are absent from this work. The deficiency
of nouns is probably much worse, especially on
technical topics. Of 40,000 unique words contained
in the original text, 12,000 are not recognized by a
spell-checker. Most of these are foreign words
(primarily Latin), and many are obsolete. In this
version, these words are marked as such by
comments in square brackets. Although this
version has been proof-read, there are doubtless
numerous residual transcription errors, some of
which may be obvious even without reference to
the original text. We will be grateful if any of these
are brought to our attention; the corrections will
appear in subsequent versions. The original
arrangement has also been modified slightly in
several places, in particular by splitting one entry
into two. A version of the 1911 thesaurus which is
almost identical to the original (only a small number
of additions to the original work) has also been
prepared by MICRA, Inc., and also carries no
restrictions from MICRA. Copies of that version or
this one may be purchased for $40.00 from
MICRA, Inc., or from the Austin Code Works,
Austin Texas.
In this file, comments which are not a proper
part of the thesaurus
itself are contained within arrow brackets thus: <—
comment —>.
Section headings, which are not an actual part
of the thesaurus
proper, are included between percent (%) markers.
Occasional references to numbers starting with
"@" are the embryonic
beginnings of a reorganized version, mentioned
below. A few comments are
also included within curly brackets {}. Last edit 12-20-91.
============================================
The following additional differences will be noted
between this version
and the original edition of the printed 1911
thesaurus:
(1) the space-saving abbreviations in the original,
using hyphens to
represent common words, prefixes or suffixes,
have been expanded
into the full words or phrases.
(2) the side-by-side format for words and their
opposites has been
abandoned. Words are listed in order of their
entry number.
(3) each main entry (1035 entries) has a pound
sign "#" in front of
the number to facilitate computerized search.
(4) Greek words and phrases are transliterated
and included between
brackets in the format <gr/greek word/gr>.
(5) where italics occurred in the original, italics are
used in the
Microsoft Word format file. In the plain ASCII
file, this
formatting is lost.
(6) in the original book, words which were
obsolete (in 1911) were
marked with a dagger. In this version, those
words are marked with a
vertical bar ("|").
Some of the words which were still current in
1911, but are no longer
found in a current college-size dictionary
(presently obsolete words),
or which are no longer used in the specific
indicated sense, have been
marked with a bar followed by an exclamation
point "|!". However,
this marking process has just commenced, and
only a small portion of
the words which are now obsolete have been
thus marked. Most though
not all of the foreign-language phrases are now
obsolete.
The "obsolete" notation [obs3] indicates that
the previous word (or
some word in the previous phrase) is not
recognized by the word
processor's spelling checker, and also is either
NOT in a modern
college-sized dictionary, or is noted there as
being "ARCHAIC".
(7) the approximate location of the bottom of
each page in the original
1911 printed book is indicated by a comment
of the form:
<— p. 23 —>. To search for a page, note that
there are two spaces
between the "p." and the page number.
(8) This file contains only the main body of thethesaurus. Neither
outline nor index are contained here. The
outline with an overview
of the organization of the concepts is contained
in a separate file,
"outline.doc", on the distribution disk.
This first edition of this supplemented 1911
thesaurus (June 1991) is very much less complete
than the latest editions of commercial thesauri, and
is probably not suitable for use as an adjunct to
word-processing programs, but it has no
proprietary claims attached to it by MICRA, Inc.,
and does not contain any material published
commercially after 1911. Future (copyrighted)
versions of this thesaurus are planned, which will
be reorganized in a hierarchical fashion to
maximize the ability to take advantage of
inheritance of semantic characteristics from higher
categories. The objective is to create a database of
words organized by semantic categories, suitable
for use in natural-language understanding
programs. This is a very small-scale project, which
will not be competitive with large academic or
commercial efforts such as the CYC project, but is
intended to provide a convenient resource for
experimentation in natural-language processing for
individuals or small groups. Anyone who is
currently engaged in or contemplating a similar
thesaurus or dictionary project, who would be
willing to collaborate on this project, is encouraged
to contact us, so that unnecessary duplication of
effort can be avoided. We would also appreciate
being notified of typos, errors, or omissions in any
version. Send inquiries or comments to:
Patrick Cassidy
MICRA Inc.
735 Belvidere Ave.
Plainfield, NJ 07062-2054
voice: [phone]
fax: [phone]
(If no one answers, please leave a message.)
==========================================================================
—>
%
THESAURUS OF ENGLISH WORDS
AND PHRASES
CLASS I WORDS EXPRESSING ABSTRACT
RELATIONS
SECTION I. EXISTENCE
1. BEING, IN THE ABSTRACT %
#1. Existence.— N. existence, being, entity,
ens[Lat], esse[Lat],subsistence.
reality, actuality; positiveness &c. adj.; fact,
matter of fact, sober
reality; truth &c. 494; actual existence.
presence &c. (existence in space) 186;
coexistence &c. 120.<