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lect

 (lĕkt)
n.
A social or regional variety of speech having a sociolinguistic or functional identity within a speech community.

[From (dia)lect.]
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lect.

1. lecture.
2. lecturer.
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lect

- A regional or social variety within a language, a form of speech defined by a homogenous set of rules.
See also related terms for rules.
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References in classic literature ?
All this time our own crop was perishing through neg- lect; and so both the priest and his lordship fined us because their shares of it were suffering through damage.
He s'lect out anybody dat suit Him, en put another one in his place, and make de fust one happy forever en leave t' other one to burn wid Satan.
When he came to the creek that was shallow and splashed down over the stones, he dashed into the water and turned to look back, and when he saw his grandfather still running toward him with the long knife held tightly in his hand he did not hesitate, but reaching down, se- lected a stone and put it in the sling.
The officers, at their intervals, rearward, neg- lected to stand in picturesque attitudes.
XVI, lect. 5: <<non intelligentes verba Scripturae blasphemant, sensum proprium auctoritati Scripturae praeponentes; sed alii modesti, dum non intelligunt, suam ignorantiam confiten tur; Sap.
Three out of five people (58%) surveyed declared that they pur chased more gifts from the same store they col lected their click and col lect goods from, as well as other nearby stores.
The Taipei School reconstructs absolutely CVC-structured roots, for example, the *-ag rime for the rhyme group of [TEXT NOT REPRODUCIBLE IN ASCII], in order to fit the facts that this rhyme group could often rhyme with the rhyme group of [TEXT NOT REPRODUCIBLE IN ASCII] (*-ak), thus there is no open syllable in this lect (Li 1971).
(Mand., 94), Aquinas cites Aristotle as "principia cognoscimus dum terminus cognoscimus." Aquinas credits Aristotle with this definition in several texts, including In IV Met., lect. 5, [section] 595; In II Sent.
Over 4,000 items have been colA[degrees] lected from the donation boxes set up in The Walk, Muscat City Centre and Qurum City Centre and handed over to Dar al Atta'a.
India as a nation needs to ref lect on why 50 years after the military defeat, China can still be high- handed with it
But the Convention of Scottish Local Authorities insisted col lect ion rates were high.
In a paper written ahead of the Interna- tional Energy Forum, OPEC said the price assumption is based on the perception of marginal supply costs over the medium to long term and stressed that it did not re lect or imply 'any projection of whether such a price path is likely or desirable.' 'For the next decade, nominal prices are assumed to stay in the $70 to $80 a barrel range, while longer term they are assumed to remain in the $70 to $100 a barrel range,' the paper said.