Template:R:Dictionary.com/documentation
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Usage
[edit]This template may be used in "References" and "Further reading" sections, and on talk pages, to cite the Dictionary.com website.
Parameters
[edit]|1=
or|entry=
– the entry on Dictionary.com. If this is not specified, the name of the Wiktionary entry is used.|alt=
– an alternative form of the entry, with wikitext markup if required.|pos=
or|part of speech=
– the part of speech of the entry. By default, the template italicizes the value assigned to the parameter and adds a full stop (period) to the end. To turn off the default formatting for the purpose of specifying a different formatting using wikitext markup and templates, specify|noformat=1
or|noformat=yes
.|2=
or|url=
– the template can usually automatically create a link to Dictionary.com. However, if the entry contains a character other than a letter of the alphabet or a hyphen, for the hyperlink to work it is necessary to use this parameter to manually specify the URL of the Dictionary.com webpage or the portion of the URL after “.../browse/” (see the example below).|3=
or|accessdate=
– the date when Dictionary.com was accessed.|source=
– the source used by Dictionary.com:- Chambers – Chambers’s Twentieth Century Dictionary of the English Language (1908).
- Collins – Collins English Dictionary (10th edition, 2010).
- Cultural Literacy – The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy (3rd edition, 2002).
- Etymology or Online Etymology Dictionary – Online Etymology Dictionary (2000–).
- FOLDOC – Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (1985–). Now deprecated – providing the source as "
FOLDOC
" acts as a redirect to{{R:FOLDOC}}
. For simplicity, use{{R:FOLDOC}}
instead. - Idioms - The American Heritage Dictionary of Idioms (2003), see also
{{R:AHD Idioms}}
. - Random House – Random House Unabridged Dictionary (2nd edition, 1993).
- Slang – Dictionary of American Slang (4th edition, 2007).
- For help with adding additional sources to this template, please leave a message on the talk page.
|4=
,|text=
, or|passage=
– a passage quoted from the webpage.|nodot=
– by default, the template adds a full stop (period) at the end of the citation. To suppress this punctuation, use|nodot=1
or|nodot=yes
.
Examples
[edit]Unless otherwise specified, the following examples assume that the template is being used on the Wiktionary entry page “example”.
- Wikitext:
{{R:Dictionary.com|pos=n}}
; or{{R:Dictionary.com|entry=example|pos=n}}
- Result: “example, n.”, in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.
- Wikitext:
{{R:Dictionary.com|accessdate=1 January 2017|pos=n}}
; or{{R:Dictionary.com|accessdate=1 January 2017|entry=example|pos=n}}
- Result: “example, n.”, in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present, retrieved 1 January 2017.
- Wikitext:
{{R:Dictionary.com|accessdate=1 January 2017|pos=n|source=Random House}}
- Result: “example, n.”, in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present, retrieved 1 January 2017, reproduced from Stuart Berg Flexner, editor in chief, Random House Unabridged Dictionary, 2nd edition, New York, N.Y.: Random House, 1993, →ISBN.
- Wikitext:
{{R:Dictionary.com|entry=all the world’s a stage|url=all-the-world-s-a-stage|source=Cultural Literacy|passage=The beginning of a speech in the play As You Like It, by William Shakespeare.|nodot=1}}
; or{{R:Dictionary.com|entry=all the world’s a stage|url=https://www.dictionary.com/browse/all-the-world-s-a-stage|source=Cultural Literacy|passage=The beginning of a speech in the play As You Like It, by William Shakespeare.|nodot=1}}
- Result: “all the world’s a stage”, in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present, reproduced from E. D. Hirsch Jr.; Joseph F. Kett; James Trefil, The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, 3rd edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin, 2002, →ISBN: “The beginning of a speech in the play As You Like It, by William Shakespeare.”