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dewey

Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for dewey.

Editorial note

Think of your home like a library with a Dewey Decimal system for all your household stuff.

Examples18
Definitions4
Parts of speech1

Quick take

A male given name transferred from the surname, of 1890s American usage.

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of dewey gathered in one view.

noun

A male given name transferred from the surname, of 1890s American usage.

noun

A surname from Old French.

noun

A number of places in the United States:

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for dewey.

noun

A male given name transferred from the surname, of 1890s American usage.

noun

A surname from Old French.

noun

A number of places in the United States:

noun

A city in Washington County, Oklahoma, named after George Dewey.

Example sentences

1

Think of your home like a library with a Dewey Decimal system for all your household stuff.

2

So, facets are a generalization of the Dewey system that is supposed to provide better options for such cataloging challenges.

3

I still stand by my point; cooperative is a much less ambiguous term for this, and I think what John Dewey describes is one as well.

4

A Dewey Decimal catalogue system should pay money for listing a book?

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I'd find the best rated books in all ten categories of the Dewey Decimal system.

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I won't claim to be an expert on this or even correct, but I tried to read what Dewey was trying to do in his own words.

7

Print libraries have the Dewey decimal system, the internet has URLs, and libraryofbabel.info has its book locations, strings of letters and numbers which you are correct to point out are just as information-rich as the texts themselves.

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While it's important for law enforcement to step up to new and technically challenging cases, the public would have been much better served had the DA focused on the Dewey & LeBoeuf case (as the NY Times suggests).

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One specific example that I recall rather fondly is the list of Dewey Decimal cards that libraries would keep in narrow file cabinets so that users could search through them and find the books they wanted.

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Update: Endless.io, the company behind Endless Horse, has announced $2.5 million in seed funding from a who's who of prominent Silicon Valley investors, including Dewey Cheetum of Pyramid Partners and Richard Ponzi of Greater Fool Capital.

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If megacorps like Disney want to spend millions keeping Mickey Mouse and friends out of the public domain after 100 years, they're free to do so, without keeping things like The Great Gatsby or the Dewey Decimal System locked up for no good reason.

Quote examples

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South Dakota has the "low" spots of Corson, Dewey, and Zieback counties in the central north which corresponds to Standing Rock (crossing the ND border as Siouxland county) and Cheyenne River.

2

It's "a farm, business, or other organization that is owned and run jointly by its members, who share the profits or benefits." 2) The article mentions John Dewey, but doesn't really get into who he is.

3

Future teachers receive a warmed-over set of homilies about preparing “the whole child” and “student-centered learning” (with the requisite homage to philosopher and education theorist John Dewey) instead of a serious intellectual initiation into the subjects in which teachers will have to instruct students.

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I have far more interest in helping the students than for helping you find excuses not to approach teaching as a profession in itself, and I get the sense if I mentioned Maria Montessori or John Dewey the response would be, "But they weren't teaching web programming at a boot camp." Learning about pedagogy will help you prepare a better curriculum.

Proper noun examples

1

The reporter, the white, middle aged Caitlin Dewey, has a reputation for being facile and provocative.

2

Peirce, William James, or John Dewey, it's clear that rejection of this maneuver is one of the central themes in everything they write.

3

Also, if you're interested in it further, I suggest Interest and Effort by John Dewey..

Frequently asked questions

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How do you use dewey in a sentence?

Think of your home like a library with a Dewey Decimal system for all your household stuff.

What does dewey mean?

A male given name transferred from the surname, of 1890s American usage.

What part of speech is dewey?

dewey is commonly used as noun.