User:DCDuring/Basic entries: improvement opportunities

Types of improvement opportunities

 * Use instead of  (shorter => clarity)
 * for cites with author names without other info.
 * Add grammatical labels (transitive/intransitive, countable/uncountable, complement (eg PP)
 * Group definitions by sense and subsense
 * Order grouped definitions: transitive/intransitive, countable/uncountable from literal to figurative, old to new, general to specialized),
 * Move multiple synonyms to Synonyms header
 * Add semantic relations headers, especially Troponyms for verbs
 * Reduce number of lines taken in edit window for citations (everything but citation itself without linefeed)

Bad?
(enwikt/MWOnline/OED)
 * break: too many ungrouped collocation-specific senses, probably missing senses. (45/75/-)
 * get
 * have ***
 * take
 * set
 * put
 * make
 * build
 * let
 * own
 * read
 * write
 * listen
 * go ***

Swadesh verbs

 * bite
 * blow
 * breathe
 * burn
 * come
 * count
 * cut
 * die
 * dig
 * drink
 * eat
 * fall
 * fear
 * fight
 * float
 * flow
 * fly
 * freeze
 * give
 * hear
 * hit
 * hold
 * hunt
 * kill
 * know
 * laugh
 * lie
 * live
 * play
 * pull
 * push
 * rub
 * say
 * scratch
 * see
 * sew
 * sing
 * sit
 * sleep
 * smell
 * spit
 * split
 * squeeze
 * stab
 * stand
 * suck
 * swell
 * swim
 * think
 * throw
 * tie
 * turn
 * vomit
 * walk
 * wash
 * wipe

English Swadesh list

 * Verbs first