Collins Concise Thesaurus

Collins Concise Thesaurus
Title Collins Concise Thesaurus PDF eBook
Author Lorna Gilmour
Publisher Collins
Pages 0
Release 2003
Genre Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN 9780007156931

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This new edition has been completely revised and updated to create a title that reflects real English in an accessible, modern design. It provides not only a generous choice of synonyms and antonyms, but many other useful features.

Collins Concise Dictionary & Thesaurus

Collins Concise Dictionary & Thesaurus
Title Collins Concise Dictionary & Thesaurus PDF eBook
Author
Publisher
Pages 1139
Release 1995
Genre
ISBN

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Collins Shorter Dictionary & Thesaurus

Collins Shorter Dictionary & Thesaurus
Title Collins Shorter Dictionary & Thesaurus PDF eBook
Author
Publisher
Pages 849
Release 1995
Genre English language
ISBN 9780004709079

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This one-volume reference book combines a mid-range dictionary and thesaurus in a parallel text format, enabling the user to find both the dictionary and thesaurus entries on the same page. Because of this practical arrangement of text, meanings, spelling, pronunciation, usage, and a range of alternative words can be found in one place without further looking up.

Oxford English Dictionary

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

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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.

Collins English Dictionary and Thesaurus

Collins English Dictionary and Thesaurus
Title Collins English Dictionary and Thesaurus PDF eBook
Author J. M. Sinclair
Publisher HarperCollins Publishers
Pages 1416
Release 1993
Genre Reference
ISBN

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This thumb-indexed edition includes a general-purpose dictionary and a thesaurus in dictionary form, arranged so that the relevant material from each appears on the same page, an arrangement made possible by the use of computer data-handling. Meanings, spelling, pronunciation, usage and a wide range of words and phrases are instantly available. The dictionary in this volume is derived from the Collins English Dictionary while the thesaurus is derived from the New Collins Thesaurus.

The New Collins Thesaurus

The New Collins Thesaurus
Title The New Collins Thesaurus PDF eBook
Author W. T. McLeod
Publisher
Pages 776
Release 1984
Genre Reference
ISBN 9780004330587

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English language dictionary of synonyms.

Words, Meaning and Vocabulary

Words, Meaning and Vocabulary
Title Words, Meaning and Vocabulary PDF eBook
Author Howard Jackson
Publisher A&C Black
Pages 230
Release 2000-01-01
Genre Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN 9780826460967

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This work goes back to the sources of modern English words and studies the development of vocabulary over time. It examines what constitutes a word, with a discussion of words that look and sound the same, words that have several meanings, and "words" that are made up of more than one "word". As well as considering the borrowing of words from other languages throughout the history of English as a means of increasing the vocabulary, the book also outlines how English forms new words by exploiting the structure of existing words, through processes of derivation and compounding. The meaning of a word is composite of a number of relations: reference to external context, relations with other words of a similar or opposite meaning, collocational relations, and so on. The book grapples with the meaning problem, but then goes on to look at the contexts in which words are used and the purposes for which they are used, raising the question whether it is more sensible to talk about English "vocabularies" rather than English "vocabulary".