Explanatory dictionaries are considered to be among the most important among all other dictionaries. The presence of an explanatory dictionary in any language testifies to the degree of development of the book business and therefore acts as one of the signs of the civilization of the society. Explanatory dictionaries are created in many languages. The main purpose of an explanatory dictionary is to explain the meanings of words. The fact is that the word of any language has more meanings than the native speaker knows and remembers. Why do you think the work of art makes such a strong impression on us in comparison with ordinary speech? In the collections on stylistics and analysis of the literary text used in the work, for example, with students of linguistic and literary institutions, the initial versions of texts and excerpts from the works of great writers with a world-wide name are given. Reading into these excerpts from the books of Pushkin, Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Bulgakov and other
masters of the artistic word, you notice the differences in the sense between the draft version and the final one. In the work there is an increase in meaning, that is, words acquire additional meaning. The dictionary will always help to realize the semantic and stylistic possibilities of the word more fully. A writer reading a dictionary enriches his speech and, accordingly, enriches the language of his works. In everyday communication, native speakers should strive so to use words so that their meanings convey the thought as accurately as possible. That’s why you need to turn to explanatory dictionaries more often. How a dictionary interprets the meaning of a word, you can show an example of crossword puzzles. Responses to the task of the crossword are names proper and common, the formulation of the task to the nominal name and is the interpretation of the meaning, albeit in a very short form. Compilers of crossword puzzles use explanatory dictionaries. Try to solve crossword puzzles in the reverse order, that is, compose them. Such exercises will help you develop a useful skill to give definitions of meanings
and the concepts they express. Some words or their meanings are supplied in the explanatory dictionary with litters, which help to characterize the sphere of the use of words. If there are no litters, then the word can be used in any speech conditions. The number of litters in different dictionaries ranges from 5-6 to 20 or more. In the preface to the explanatory dictionary, a list of litters is given. The scope of the word is also defined: mathematics, biology, music, and so on. Some writers strongly objected to the droppings, since they saw in this a kind of “
