Oxford English Dictionary
Title | Oxford English Dictionary PDF eBook |
Author | John A. Simpson |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Pages | |
Release | 2002-04-18 |
Genre | Reference |
ISBN | 9780195218893 |
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.
Oxford Popular School Dictionary 2008
Title | Oxford Popular School Dictionary 2008 PDF eBook |
Author | , OUP |
Publisher | OUP Oxford |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2008-06-12 |
Genre | Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | 9780199118748 |
The Popular School dictionary has over 40, 000 words and phrases, with simple meanings and example phrases show how words are used. It includes words from the curriculum, international vocabulary and new words from ICT. It is ideal for quick word look-up at home.
The Oxford Dictionary of New Words
Title | The Oxford Dictionary of New Words PDF eBook |
Author | Sara Tulloch |
Publisher | Oxford University Press, USA |
Pages | 340 |
Release | 1991 |
Genre | Reference |
ISBN | 9780192830777 |
Drawing words from politics, the enviromental movement, computers and technology, and other sources, Tulloch examines over 2,000 new words and phrases that have become part of our lives in the last decade, in 750 articles that provide pronunication, definition, etymology, informal history, and sample sentences. A rich history of the recent changes in the language and in our culture. Line drawings.
The Making of the Oxford English Dictionary
Title | The Making of the Oxford English Dictionary PDF eBook |
Author | Peter Gilliver |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Pages | 688 |
Release | 2016-09-22 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0191009687 |
This book tells the history of the Oxford English Dictionary from its beginnings in the middle of the nineteenth century to the present. The author, uniquely among historians of the OED, is also a practising lexicographer with nearly thirty years' experience of working on the Dictionary. He has drawn on a wide range of sources-including previously unexamined archival material and eyewitness testimony-to create a detailed history of the project. The book explores the cultural background from which the idea of a comprehensive historical dictionary of English emerged, the lengthy struggles to bring this concept to fruition, and the development of the book from the appearance of the first printed fascicle in 1884 to the launching of the Dictionary as an online database in 2000 and beyond. It also examines the evolution of the lexicographers' working methods, and provides much information about the people-many of them remarkable individuals-who have contributed to the project over the last century and a half.
The Compact Oxford English Dictionary
Title | The Compact Oxford English Dictionary PDF eBook |
Author | J. A. Simpson |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Pages | 2386 |
Release | 1991 |
Genre | Reference |
ISBN | 9780198612582 |
The standard dictionary of the English language micrographically printed in one volume
Collins English Dictionary
Title | Collins English Dictionary PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 630 |
Release | 2009 |
Genre | English language |
ISBN | 9780007846962 |
Oxford Dictionary of Current English
Title | Oxford Dictionary of Current English PDF eBook |
Author | Oxford University Press |
Publisher | OXFORD University Press |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2006 |
Genre | Foreign Language Study |
ISBN | 9780198614371 |
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.