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Example: Twenty-one language Dictionary/by H.L. Ouseg – Owen, 1962.

It is a multilingual dictionary of a small number of common words and expressions covering
21 languages. It is arranged alphabetically by the English words and has equivalent words of
20 languages. It has twenty appendices – one for each foreign language. Each appendix has
alphabetically arranged list of words with their appropriate English equivalent.
Yugarasmi’s Illustrated English, Malayalam Tamil, Hindi, Arabic Dictionary. Trivandrum
Yugarasmi Pub. Co., 1988.

9.3.4 Subject Dictionaries

Dictionaries dealing with the terms of a particular subject are known as subject dictionaries. The
rapid development in all the fields of knowledge has necessitated in the compilation of subject
dictionaries devoted to the specific subject fields, occupations and professions. They differ from
general language dictionaries in two ways. These are:

(i) They include specialized technical terms of a particular discipline not usually found in
general dictionaries.
(ii) They give detailed descriptions of words. They not only define the terms but explain and
comment on them.
These dictionaries can be grouped on the following basis:
Some unilingual dictionaries are unabridged although examples of abridged dictionaries are
also available.

Example: The McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Modern Economics: A handbook of Terms and
Organizations/by Greenwald. 4th ed. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1983.
The Concise McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Modern Economics/ed. By Douglas Greenwald.
New York: McGraw-Hill, 1984.
Unilingual - Examples of this type are:
The American Dictionary of Economics/ed. By Douglas A L Auld and others. N.Y.: Facts
on File, 1983.
Dictionary of Information Science and Technology/comp. By Walters. London: Academic
Press, 1992.
Bilingual and Multilingual - Examples of this type include:
German-English Technical and Engineering Dictionary/by L. De Vries and T.M. Herrmann.
2nd ed. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1968.
Elsevier’s Dictionary of Television, Radar and Antennas in Six languages/by W.E. Clason.
Amsterdam: Elsevier, 1955.

Subject dictionaries are not confined to major disciplines or subjects, Numerous dictionaries
are compiled solely to deal with the vocabulary of specialised topics.

Example: Dictionary of Clocks and Watches/by E. Bruton Acro, 1962.
The Diamond Dictionary/by L.L. Copeland. Los Angels: Geological Institute of America,
1960.

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