{"id":504,"date":"2015-08-03T07:17:31","date_gmt":"2015-08-03T07:17:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/97.74.134.56\/?p=504"},"modified":"2015-08-03T07:17:31","modified_gmt":"2015-08-03T07:17:31","slug":"dictionary-vs-thesaurus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/writinggeeks.in\/blog\/dictionary-vs-thesaurus\/","title":{"rendered":"Dictionary vs. Thesaurus"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #0088ff;\">Dictionary vs. Thesaurus<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #0088ff;\">What is the difference between a dictionary and a thesaurus?\u201d<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A <strong>dictionary<\/strong> is a book containing the individual words of a language (usually organized alphabetically). The purpose of the dictionary is to set forth the orthography, pronunciation and signification of those words.<span id=\"more-66\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The <strong>thesaurus<\/strong>, on the other hand, is a specific dictionary that presents synonyms (words that have similar meaning) for every word listed. This type of dictionary became famous after its integration with word processing software.<\/p>\n<p>The purpose of the thesaurus is to help the writer to find more suitable words and avoid the repetition of the terms.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dictionary vs. Thesaurus What is the difference between a dictionary and a thesaurus?\u201d A dictionary is a book containing the individual words of a language (usually organized alphabetically). The purpose of the dictionary is to set forth the orthography, pronunciation and signification of those words. The thesaurus, on the other hand, is a specific dictionary [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":629,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,28],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-504","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-general-english","8":"category-improve-your-english"},"featured_image_src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/writinggeeks.in\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/d-vs-t.jpg?fit=800%2C521&ssl=1","author_info":{"display_name":"Writing Geeks","author_link":"https:\/\/writinggeeks.in\/blog\/author\/writinggeeks\/"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/writinggeeks.in\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/d-vs-t.jpg?fit=800%2C521&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6uhmH-88","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/writinggeeks.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/writinggeeks.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/writinggeeks.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writinggeeks.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writinggeeks.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=504"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/writinggeeks.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":631,"href":"https:\/\/writinggeeks.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504\/revisions\/631"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writinggeeks.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/629"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/writinggeeks.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writinggeeks.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writinggeeks.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}