`entries` | (dictionary entries) groups the different styles of dictionary entries.

Attributes:

`type` | indicates type of entry, in dictionaries with multiple types.
| Datatype: CDATA

Legal values:

`main` | a main entry (default).
`hom` | a homograph with a separate entry.
`xref` | a reduced entry whose only function is to point to another main entry (e.g. for forms of an irregular verb or for variant spellings: `was' pointing to `be', or `esthete' to `aesthete').
`affix` | an entry for a prefix, infix, or suffix.
`abbr` | an entry for an abbreviation.
`supplemental` | a supplemental entry (for use in dictionaries which issue supplements to their main work in which they include updated information about entries).
`foreign` | an entry for a `foreign' word in a monolingual dictionary.

| Default: "main"

`key` | (sort key) contains a (sortable) character sequence reflecting the entry's alphabetical position in the printed dictionary.
| Datatype: CDATA
| Values: any sequence of characters which, when sorted with the other values, will produced the desired order; specifics of key construction are application-dependent.
| Default: #IMPLIED

Note

Dictionary order often differs from the collation sequence of machine-readable character sets; in English-language dictionaries, an entry for `4-H' will often appear alphabetized under ``fourh'', and `McCoy' may be alphabetized under ``maccoy'', while `A1', `A4', and `A5' may all which all appear in numeric order `alphabetized' between ``a-'' and ``AA''. The sort key is required if the orthography of the dictionary entry does not suffice to determine its location.

Note

The global `n` attribute should be used to encode the homograph numbers attached to entries for homographs.

Tagsetbase tag set for printed dictionaries
Class
Filename`teidict2.ent`
Parents[none]
Membersentry entryFree superentry
Declaration `<!ENTITY % a.entries ' %a.global type CDATA "main" key CDATA #IMPLIED' >`
See 12.1 ; 12.2

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