Examples of “dict” in a Sentence

noun An informal written shortening of dictionary, common in file names, software packages and note-taking.

• He shipped the spell-checker with a 60,000-word dict.

noun In Python and similar programming languages, a built-in data structure that stores values under unique keys, allowing fast lookup by key rather than by position.

• Store the settings in a dict so you can look each one up by name.
• The function returns a dict mapping each user id to a list of orders.