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Oxford English Dictionary

Author : John A. Simpson
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780195218893
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (188 download)

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Download or read book Oxford English Dictionary written by John A. Simpson and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2002-04-18 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Dictionaries

Author : Jonathan Wright
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 9780194372190
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (721 download)

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Download or read book Dictionaries written by Jonathan Wright and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 1998-11-12 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Makes learners aware of the enormous amount of information in most ELT dictionaries. Practises reading skills. Provides memory training. Includes a section on bilingual dictionaries. Encourages learners to have fun with dictionaries.

The Cambridge Companion to English Dictionaries

Author : Sarah Ogilvie
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108568459
Total Pages : 417 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (85 download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to English Dictionaries written by Sarah Ogilvie and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-09-24 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How did a single genre of text have the power to standardise the English language across time and region, rival the Bible in notions of authority, and challenge our understanding of objectivity, prescription, and description? Since the first monolingual dictionary appeared in 1604, the genre has sparked evolution, innovation, devotion, plagiarism, and controversy. This comprehensive volume presents an overview of essential issues pertaining to dictionary style and content and a fresh narrative of the development of English dictionaries throughout the centuries. Essays on the regional and global nature of English lexicography (dictionary making) explore its power in standardising varieties of English and defining nations seeking independence from the British Empire: from Canada to the Caribbean. Leading scholars and lexicographers historically contextualise an array of dictionaries and pose urgent theoretical and methodological questions relating to their role as tools of standardisation, prestige, power, education, literacy, and national identity.

Merriam-Webster's Concise Dictionary of English Usage

Author : Merriam-Webster, Inc
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 820 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)

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Download or read book Merriam-Webster's Concise Dictionary of English Usage written by Merriam-Webster, Inc and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 820 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A handy guide to problems of confused or disputed usage based on the critically acclaimed Merriam-Webster's Dictionary of English Usage. Over 2,000 entries explain the background and basis of usage controversies and offer expert advice and recommendations.

The Merriam-Webster Dictionary

Author : Merriam-Webster
Publisher : Merriam-Webster
ISBN 13 : 9780877790952
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (99 download)

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Download or read book The Merriam-Webster Dictionary written by Merriam-Webster and published by Merriam-Webster. This book was released on 2022-05 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New edition! A handy, reliable, and authoritative dictionary of words most frequently used in Englis. More than 75,000 definitions, 2,000 new word entries, and more than 150 illustrations. Expanded special features include a Handbook of Style, Basic English Grammar, Irregular English Verbs and a Guid eto Common Verb Collocations (both essential for ESL), and a new Overview of the Internet.

Words and Phrases Legally Defined

Author : David Hay
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780406996251
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (962 download)

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Download or read book Words and Phrases Legally Defined written by David Hay and published by . This book was released on 1990-07-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Words and Phrases enables the practitioner to have at all times the precise meaning of a particular word or phrase. Definitions are taken from the Acts of Parliament, Halsbury's Laws of England, leading textbooks and verbatim judgments from all over the Commonwealth.

Word by Word

Author : Kory Stamper
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 110197026X
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (19 download)

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Download or read book Word by Word written by Kory Stamper and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2018-03-06 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “We think of English as a fortress to be defended, but a better analogy is to think of English as a child. We love and nurture it into being, and once it gains gross motor skills, it starts going exactly where we don’t want it to go: it heads right for the goddamned electrical sockets.” With wit and irreverence, lexicographer Kory Stamper cracks open the obsessive world of dictionary writing, from the agonizing decisions about what to define and how to do it to the knotty questions of ever-changing word usage. Filled with fun facts—for example, the first documented usage of “OMG” was in a letter to Winston Churchill—and Stamper’s own stories from the linguistic front lines (including how she became America’s foremost “irregardless” apologist, despite loathing the word), Word by Word is an endlessly entertaining look at the wonderful complexities and eccentricities of the English language.

Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary

Author : Kate Woodford
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780521824231
Total Pages : 1550 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (242 download)

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Download or read book Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary written by Kate Woodford and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 1550 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary is the ideal dictionary for advanced EFL/ESL learners. Easy to use and with a great CD-ROM - the perfect learner's dictionary for exam success. First published as the Cambridge International Dictionary of English, this new edition has been completely updated and redesigned. - References to over 170,000 words, phrases and examples explained in clear and natural English - All the important new words that have come into the language (e.g. dirty bomb, lairy, 9/11, clickable) - Over 200 'Common Learner Error' notes, based on the Cambridge Learner Corpus from Cambridge ESOL exams Plus, on the CD-ROM: - SMART thesaurus - lets you find all the words with the same meaning - QUICKfind - automatically looks up words while you are working on-screen - SUPERwrite - tools for advanced writing, giving help with grammar and collocation - Hear and practise all the words.

A Dictionary of Book History

Author : John Feather
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)

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Download or read book A Dictionary of Book History written by John Feather and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Dictionaries: A Very Short Introduction

Author : Lynda Mugglestone
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199573794
Total Pages : 161 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (995 download)

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Download or read book Dictionaries: A Very Short Introduction written by Lynda Mugglestone and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2011-08-18 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dictionaries are far more than works which list the words and meanings of a language. In this Very Short Introduction Lynda Mugglestone takes a look at how dictionaries are made, considering how they reflect the dominant social and cultural assumptions of the time in which they were written.

The Liar's Dictionary

Author : Eley Williams
Publisher : Anchor
ISBN 13 : 0385546785
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (855 download)

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Download or read book The Liar's Dictionary written by Eley Williams and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2021-01-05 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NATIONAL BESTSELLER • “You wouldn’t expect a comic novel about a dictionary to be a thriller too, but this one is. In fact, [it] is also a mystery, love story (two of them) and cliffhanging melodrama.” —The New York Times Book Review An award-winning novel that chronicles the charming misadventures of a lovelorn Victorian lexicographer and the young woman put on his trail a century later to root out his misdeeds while confronting questions of her own sexuality and place in the world. Mountweazel n. the phenomenon of false entries within dictionaries and works of reference. Often used as a safeguard against copyright infringement. In the final year of the nineteenth century, Peter Winceworth is toiling away at the letter S for Swansby’s multivolume Encyclopaedic Dictionary. But his disaffection with his colleagues compels him to assert some individual purpose and artistic freedom, and he begins inserting unauthorized, fictitious entries. In the present day, Mallory, the publisher’s young intern, starts to uncover these mountweazels in the process of digitization and through them senses their creator’s motivations, hopes, and desires. More pressingly, she’s also been contending with a threatening, anonymous caller who wants Swansby’s staff to “burn in hell.” As these two narratives coalesce, Winceworth and Mallory, separated by one hundred years, must discover how to negotiate the complexities of life’s often untrustworthy, hoax-strewn, and undefinable path. An exhilarating, laugh-out-loud debut, The Liar’s Dictionary celebrates the rigidity, fragility, absurdity, and joy of language while peering into questions of identity and finding one’s place in the world.

The Dictionary of the Book

Author : Sidney E. Berger
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1442263407
Total Pages : 335 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (422 download)

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Download or read book The Dictionary of the Book written by Sidney E. Berger and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2016-10-17 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Finally, here is the definitive glossary of the book, offering readers all the terms they will need for thorough understanding of how books are made, the materials they are made of, and how they are described in the bookselling, book collecting, and library worlds. Every key term --- over 1,300 different words --- that could be used in booksellers’ catalogs, library records, and collectors’ descriptions of their holdings is represented in this dictionary. This authoritative source covers all areas of book knowledge: the book as physical object, typeface terminology, paper, printing, book collecting, book design, bibliography, calligraphy, t he language of manuscripts, writing implements, librarianship, legal issues, the parts of a book, and much more. The definitions are supplemented by more than 100 illustrations showing the book as a physical object: parts of books, kinds of illustrations, kinds of printing techniques, tools that librarians, booksellers, and collectors refer to that are used in the making of books, kinds of binding structures and decoration, kinds of paper decoration, and other things.

Random House Webster's Unabridged Dictionary

Author : Random House (Firm)
Publisher : Random House Reference
ISBN 13 : 9780375720260
Total Pages : 2230 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (22 download)

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Download or read book Random House Webster's Unabridged Dictionary written by Random House (Firm) and published by Random House Reference. This book was released on 2001 with total page 2230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides entries for over 315,000 words and phrases, and includes a list of new words.

The Ornithologist's Dictionary

Author : Johannes Erritzoe
Publisher : Lynx Edicions
ISBN 13 : 9788496553439
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (534 download)

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Download or read book The Ornithologist's Dictionary written by Johannes Erritzoe and published by Lynx Edicions. This book was released on 2007 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides access to short and comprehended explanations to more than 5,000 words and terms in English that any ornithologist or birder may encounter during his or her research.

The SAGE Dictionary of Qualitative Inquiry

Author : Thomas A. Schwandt
Publisher : SAGE Publications
ISBN 13 : 1483321495
Total Pages : 351 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (833 download)

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Download or read book The SAGE Dictionary of Qualitative Inquiry written by Thomas A. Schwandt and published by SAGE Publications. This book was released on 2014-12-19 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this Fourth Edition of The SAGE Dictionary of Qualitative Inquiry Thomas A. Schwandt provides a guide to the terms and phrases that help shape the origins, purpose, logic, meaning, and methods of the practices known as qualitative inquiry. This edition features 20 additional terms as well as a restructured Reader’s Guide. Key references have been updated and select terms and phrases from previous editions have been reorganized and greatly expanded. Together, the dictionary entries provide a guide to the methodological and epistemological concepts and theoretical orientations of qualitative inquiry. This one-of-a-kind resource is ideal for readers who are navigating various perspectives on qualitative inquiry, working on a qualitative dissertation, or are launching their own investigations into the issues covered.

The Lover's Dictionary

Author : David Levithan
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN 13 : 1429994304
Total Pages : 205 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)

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Download or read book The Lover's Dictionary written by David Levithan and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2011-01-21 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How does one talk about love? Is it even possible to describe something at once utterly mundane and wholly transcendent, that has the power to consume our lives completely, while making us feel part of something infinitely larger than ourselves? Taking a unique approach to this age-old problem, the nameless narrator of David Levithan's The Lover's Dictionary constructs the story of a relationship as a dictionary. Through these sharp entries, he provides an intimate window into the great events and quotidian trifles of coupledom, giving us an indelible and deeply moving portrait of love in our time.

A Dictionary of Sociology

Author : John Scott
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191047554
Total Pages : 829 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book A Dictionary of Sociology written by John Scott and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2014-09-11 with total page 829 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A consistent best-seller, the wide-ranging and authoritative Dictionary of Sociology was first published in 1994 and contains more than 2,500 entries on the terminology, methods, concepts, and thinkers in the field, as well as from the related fields of psychology, economics, anthropology, philosophy, and political science. For this fourth edition, Professor John Scott has conducted a thorough review of all entries to ensure that they are concise, focused, and up to date. Revisions reflect current intellectual debates and social conditions, particularly in relation to global and multi-cultural issues. New entries cover relevant contemporary concepts, such as climate change, social media, terrorism, and intersectionality, as well as key living sociologists. This Dictionary is both an invaluable introduction to sociology for beginners, and an essential source of reference for more advanced students and teachers.