Oxford English Dictionary

2002-04-18
Oxford English Dictionary

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

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.

Words of the World

2013
Words of the World

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  • Author: Sarah Ogilvie
  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press
  • ISBN: 1107021839
  • Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 261

Demonstrates that the Oxford English Dictionary is an international product in both its content and its making.

The Making of the Oxford English Dictionary

2016-09-22
The Making of the Oxford English Dictionary

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  • Author: Peter Gilliver
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press
  • ISBN: 0191009687
  • Category : History
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 688

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.

Pocket Oxford English Dictionary

2002
Pocket Oxford English Dictionary

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  • Author: Catherine Soanes
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
  • ISBN: 9780198605713
  • Category : English language
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 0

This is a reissue of the ninth edition of the world's longest-established and best-selling pocket English dictionary. It is one of the new generation Oxford dictionaries derived from the database of the highly-acclaimed New Oxford Dictionary of English and is particularly user friendly withits elegant open design, with different elements starting on new lines. It offers excellent coverage of English as an international language, the defining style is straightforward and non-technical, and thousands of examples illustrate idiomatic usage. All irregular noun, verb, and adjectivalinflections are spelled out in full, while guidance on grammar and good usage is provided by in-text notes. Additional features include Wordbuilder boxes giving information on related words and thematic tables on subjects such as countries, chemical elements, and nationalities. This title replacesISBN: 0-19-861334-2.

Caught in the Web of Words

2001-01-01
Caught in the Web of Words

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  • Author: Katherine Maud Elisabeth Murray
  • Publisher: Yale University Press
  • ISBN: 9780300089196
  • Category : Biography & Autobiography
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 404

This unique and celebrated biography describes how a largely self-educated boy from a small village in Scotland entered the world of scholarship and became the first editor of the Oxford English Dictionary and a great lexicographer. It also provides an absorbing account of how the dictionary was written, the personalities of the people working on it, and the endless difficulties that nearly led to the whole enterprise being abandoned. "It is a magnificent story of a magnificent man, one of the finest biographies of the twentieth century, as its subject was one of the finest human beings of the nineteenth." --Anthony Burgess "A moving and dramatic story . . . sometimes tragic, often comic, ultimately triumphant." --Times (London) "A biography that possesses many of the virtues of James Murray himself--grace, humor, intelligence, curiosity, and scholarship." --Time "In her vivid biography, Murray's granddaughter brings his remarkable personality to life, and provides an unexpectedly fascinating account of the OED's long and difficult birth." --Times Literary Supplement "A gripping, engaging story; endearing, too. The daily round of a big Victorian family, with its jokes, games, and treasured seaside holidays, is entrancingly evoked." --Sunday Times (London)

The Compact Oxford English Dictionary

1991
The Compact Oxford English Dictionary

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  • Author: J. A. Simpson
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press
  • ISBN: 9780198612582
  • Category : Reference
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 2386

The standard dictionary of the English language micrographically printed in one volume

Oxford Dictionary of Current English

2006
Oxford Dictionary of Current English

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  • Author: Oxford University Press
  • Publisher: OXFORD University Press
  • ISBN: 9780198614371
  • Category : Foreign Language Study
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 0

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.

A Supplement to the Oxford English Dictionary: O-Scz

1972
A Supplement to the Oxford English Dictionary: O-Scz

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  • Author: R. W. Burchfield
  • Publisher: Oxford [Oxfordshire] : Clarendon Press
  • ISBN:
  • Category : English language
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 1610

Supplement to the Oxford dictionary of the English language, comprising new words and senses of the period from 1884 to the present day - replaces the earlier (1933) supplement.

The Oxford English-Hebrew Dictionary

1996
The Oxford English-Hebrew Dictionary

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  • Author: N. S. Doniach
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
  • ISBN: 9780198643227
  • Category : Foreign Language Study
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 1091

The Oxford English-Hebrew Dictionary is a detailed guide to current usage in English and Hebrew. In addition to a full range of idioms and phrases, slang and colloquialisms, the dictionary offers comprehensive coverage of technical, scientific, legal, medical, and academic terminology. Care has also been taken to record British, American, and Australian variants. Both the presentation and content of the dictionary are designed to guide the reader through the pitfalls of varying register and context; clearly labelled senses and numerous example phrases ensure maximum clarity and accessibility. The result is an essential reference tool for English and Hebrew users alike. The Oxford English-Hebrew Dictionary was compiled and edited at the Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies.

Little Oxford English Dictionary

2006
Little Oxford English Dictionary

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  • Author: Sara Hawker
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
  • ISBN: 9780199202980
  • Category : Reference
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 0

Packed with more than 107,000 definitions, the revised and updated edition of this popular, portable dictionary is completely up to date in its coverage.