## Text Encoding Initiative

### The XML Version of the TEI Guidelines

# entries

`entries` | (dictionary entries) groups the different styles of dictionary entries.
Member of classes | (none)
Members | entry entryFree superEntry

Declaration

    <!ENTITY % a.entries '
          type CDATA "main"
          key CDATA #IMPLIED'>

Attributes

(In addition to global attributes)

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

Suggested values include:

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 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.

Module Declared in file teidict2.ent; Base tag set for dictionaries: enabled by TEI.dictionary
See further 12.1 Dictionary Body and Overall Structure; 12.2 The Structure of Dictionary Entries

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