census vs dictionary

census

noun
  • An official count or enumeration of members of a population (not necessarily human), usually residents or citizens in a particular region, often done at regular intervals. 

  • Count, tally. 

verb
  • To collect a census. 

  • To conduct a census on. 

dictionary

noun
  • Any work that has a list of material organized alphabetically; e.g., biographical dictionary, encyclopedic dictionary. 

  • A synchronic dictionary of a standardised language held to only contain words that are properly part of the language. 

  • A reference work with a list of words from one or more languages, normally ordered alphabetically, explaining each word's meanings (senses), and sometimes also containing information on its etymology, pronunciation, usage, semantic relations, and translations, as well as other data. 

  • An associative array, a data structure where each value is referenced by a particular key, analogous to words and definitions in a dictionary (sense 1). 

verb
  • To look up in a dictionary. 

  • To compile a dictionary. 

  • To add to a dictionary. 

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