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English to Kriol SectionThe English to Kriol section of the dictionary is a simpledirectory for the main Kriol section. It will help users find the fullentry in Kriol, including sample sentences and other information. Forexample, if you know how to spell the English word ant, but youeither do not know the word in Kriol or you do not know how tospell the word in Kriol, you would look it up in the English section.There you would see that the Kriol word is ‘aans’, so you could thengo to the Kriol section and look for the word aans to find moreinformation about the word.ant n. aans.ant sp. – blak aans, faiyaans, flodflai, krayzi aans,maachin aami aans, papapin, red aans, weewi aans.In the previous example, you see the word ant listed again,followed by the abbreviation sp. – this lists the Kriol names ofspecific types of ants, which you can also find in main entries in theKriol section. There are a number of broad categories that will havelists directing you to specific terms in Kriol.Homonyms in Kriol are indicated by superscript numbersfollowing the Kriol word, and it will correspond with the homonymnumber in the Kriol part of the dictionary. For example:black adj. blak 1 .block v. blak 2 . n. blak 2 .The entries above show that blak can have two completelydifferent meanings in Kriol. In the Kriol section of the dictionary, thefirst entry will be for blak meaning the colour ‘black’, and thesecond entry will be for blak meaning ‘block’ in English, which canbe a verb (v.) or a noun (n.).Homonyms in English are indicated briefly by a word inparentheses following the main English word, such as in thefollowing examples:palm (tree) n. paam.palm (of the hand) n. han eensaid.8