Author : Maurice Waite
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 576 pages
File Size : 26,38 MB
Release : 2013-05-09
Category : Reference
ISBN : 0199666148
An easy-to-use thesaurus containing over 120,000 synonyms and antonyms.
Author : Maurice Waite
Publisher :
Page : 980 pages
File Size : 34,28 MB
Release : 2005
Category : English language
ISBN : 9780198614302
Helping you get the best out of a thesaurus, this writing guide contains a two-colour text design, thousands of new example sentences, and Word Link panels to help improve your vocabulary.
Author : Catherine Soanes
Publisher : OXFORD University Press
Page : 1111 pages
File Size : 36,18 MB
Release : 2002
Category : English language
ISBN : 9780198603702
The Oxford Compact Dictionary, Thesaurus, and Wordpower Guide gives you three books in one. The dictionary section offers excellent coverage of everyday English, with over 120,000 words, phrases, and definitions, while the thesaurus has over 150,000 alternative words. Other features include straightforward guidance on grammar and usage in the shape of in-text boxes and thousands of example sentences illustrating words in use. The Wordpower Guide offers extra help to improve your vocabulary, and includes a section on foreign words and phrases, information on collective names for animals and birds, useful vocabulary for use in word games, lists of common confusables, a section on selecting the right word, and an extensive Wordbuilder section which gives instant links to related words.
Author : John A. Simpson
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : pages
File Size : 26,82 MB
Release : 2002-04-18
Category : 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.
Author : Oxford University Press
Publisher : OXFORD University Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,82 MB
Release : 2006
Category : 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.
Author : Robert Allen
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,67 MB
Release : 2007-05
Category : English language
ISBN : 9780199113736
The Oxford Mini School Dictionary and Thesaurus is a major new title from Oxford especially written for 10+ years that offers a dictionary and a thesaurus in one volume, in colour. It is the best quick reference tool available today and will be particularly useful for primary school leaverswho are preparing to start secondary school. Packed with information, the dictionary includes over 40,000 words and phrases, up-to-date words from the curriculum, international vocabulary, and new words from ICT, and the thesaurus includes over 100,000 synonyms and alternative words. The clear andaccessible design, the alphabet down the side of every page, and matching dictionary and thesaurus entries on the same page, makes finding the word you are looking for quick and easy. A special supplement on tricky words, confusable words, overused words and idioms, will give pupils all the readingand writing support they need. The Oxford Mini School Dictionary and Thesaurus is compact enough to fit into any pocket, has a durable, vinyl cover and is perfect to use at home and at school.
Author : Charlotte Livingstone
Publisher :
Page : 792 pages
File Size : 38,46 MB
Release : 2008-01-01
Category : English language
ISBN : 9780199549436
The Little Oxford Dictionary and Thesaurus provides an authoritative dictionary and an extensive easy-to-use thesaurus all in one. Designed to be a convenient and comprehensive reference work, individual entries contain both dictionary definitions for an accurate and up-to-date guide to the language as well as thesaurus synonyms to increase your vocabulary and improve your style. Where thesaurus synonyms are slang, derogatory or old-fashioned uses of words, they are labelled to give you guidance. This new `Little' Oxford book will be useful on many occasions, from writing a letter to solving a crossword puzzle.
Author : Maurice Waite
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 1080 pages
File Size : 50,78 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Reference
ISBN :
"The Oxford Thesaurus of English is the most comprehensive one-volume thesaurus available, with over 600,000 synonyms and antonyms, and more than 35,000 example sentences. It presents information according to relevance and frequency based on the evidence of the Oxford English Corpus, an unrivalled collection of more than one billion words of modern English."--BOOK JACKET.
Author : Sara Hawker
Publisher : Oxford
Page : 746 pages
File Size : 41,65 MB
Release : 2003
Category : English language
ISBN : 9780198607090
The Little Oxford Dictionary, Thesaurus, and Wordpower Guide provides three books in one compact and durable format. It offers the most authoritative and up-to-date coverage of current English, with a dictionary containing over 40,000 words, phrases, and definitions, and a thesaurus with more than 65,000 alternative words. Matching dictionary and thesaurus entries are presented on the same page for quick and easy reference. A unique Wordpower Guide offering a vocabulary builder, lists offrequently misspelled words, and collective nouns for animals and birds helps you to enrich your vocabulary and use the English language more effectively.
Author : Oxford University Press
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 24,44 MB
Release : 1992
Category :
ISBN : 9780199617364
