Exceptional cases are still characteristic of lexical data. Information of the same kind can appear at different levels in the same entry. Orthography and stress of a single element lexeme are not separated. Definitions describe the meaning of some lexical item, most often of the headword of the entry, while in some cases they describe examples. Definitions and translations are usually accompanied by examples.
Attributes help to define usage more precisely.
These refer the reader to additional information elsewhere in the dictionary. They may be free-standing within an entry. Cross reference-like cases occurring occasionally in definition texts remain untagged. Notes Notes about usage, grammar, etc, may be placed within an entry. These are included in many dictionaries for direct derivatives or inflected forms of the headword, or for compounds, phrases, collocations, and idioms .