Oxford English Dictionary

Oxford English Dictionary PDF Author: John A. Simpson
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780195218893
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages :

Book Description
The Oxford English Dictionary is the internationally recognized authority on the evolution of the English language from 1150 to the present day. The Dictionary defines over 500,000 words, making it an unsurpassed guide to the meaning, pronunciation, and history of the English language. This new upgrade version of The Oxford English Dictionary Second Edition on CD-ROM offers unparalleled access to the world's most important reference work for the English language. The text of this version has been augmented with the inclusion of the Oxford English Dictionary Additions Series (Volumes 1-3), published in 1993 and 1997, the Bibliography to the Second Edition, and other ancillary material. System requirements: PC with minimum 200 MHz Pentium-class processor; 32 MB RAM (64 MB recommended); 16-speed CD-ROM drive (32-speed recommended); Windows 95, 98, Me, NT, 200, or XP (Local administrator rights are required to install and open the OED for the first time on a PC running Windows NT 4 and to install and run the OED on Windows 2000 and XP); 1.1 GB hard disk space to run the OED from the CD-ROM and 1.7 GB to install the CD-ROM to the hard disk: SVGA monitor: 800 x 600 pixels: 16-bit (64k, high color) setting recommended. Please note: for the upgrade, installation requires the use of the OED CD-ROM v2.0.

The Oxford American Dictionary of Current English

The Oxford American Dictionary of Current English PDF Author: Frank R. Abate
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN:
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 1022

Book Description
A comprehensive lexicon of American English includes 175,000 concise definitions; notes on grammar, style, and usage ; hundreds of world histories; illustrations; and three thousand biographical and geographical entries.

The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Current English

The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Current English PDF Author: Henry Watson Fowler
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 9780198613206
Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 1673

Book Description
This new edition of Oxford's flagship single-volume dictionary brings you the results of the latest research into the real English of today. Oxford is lead partner in the British National Corpus, a massive and constantly expanding hundred-million-word database which allows dictionary editors to sample today's language - newspapers, magazines, books, advertisements, even transcripts of spoken English. With thousands of occurences ofeach common word available for instant analysis, lexicographers are able to track the latest trends in, for instance, spelling and hyphenation or disputed usages, with greater accuracy than ever before. This rolling, constantly updated `opinion poll of language' combined with Oxford's unparalleledworld reading programme (we spend more on language research than any other dictionary publisher in the world), ensures that COD9 is the up-to-date reference for today's English. Bigger and better than ever before, its new features include: * The most up-to-date spellings, with improved coverage of meaning and usage based on a computerized `snapshot' of today's language * 25% more content than the previous edition * New words, including such items as holiday village, nip and tuck, central locking, ragga, house-sit, Balti, pesto, Cajun, road-pricing, Feyman diagram, supermodel, and slaphead * New, more up-to-date pronunciation system, representing today's received pronunciation * Over 300 new boxed usage notes with guidance on good English * New, clearer etymologies * easier to use with more compounds as main entries

Oxford Dictionary of Current English

Oxford Dictionary of Current English PDF Author: Oxford University Press
Publisher: OXFORD University Press
ISBN: 9780198614371
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Provides definitions of words in contemporary use in English-speaking countries throughout the world, with examples of idiomatic uses, guides to irregular forms, notes on grammar and preferred usage, and lists of related terms.

Oxford Dictionary of Pronunciation for Current English

Oxford Dictionary of Pronunciation for Current English PDF Author: Clive Upton
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 9780198607724
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 1208

Book Description
Compiled by a team of linguistics experts, this is a comprehensive pronunciation dictionary which gives phonetic transcriptions using the International Phonetic Alphabet for the rendering of words and proper names in both British and American English.

Oxford Dictionary of English

Oxford Dictionary of English PDF Author: Angus Stevenson
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0199571120
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 2093

Book Description
The Oxford Dictionary of English offers authoritative and in-depth coverage of over 350,000 words, phrases, and meanings. The foremost single-volume authority on the English language.

The Little Oxford Dictionary of Current English

The Little Oxford Dictionary of Current English PDF Author: George Ostler
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780198612988
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 786

Book Description
Long a light and portable favorite, this dictionary has sold millions of copies worldwide through its various editions. Now available in a completely revised new edition, this convenient volume includes more than 51,000 entries with 56,000 definitions, new usage notes, enhanced guidance on spellings, extended coverage of technical and scientific terms, and more.
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