
Shorter Oxford English Dictionary
William Little(Author)
Oxford University Press
5th Edition
Published on 1. November 2002
Software
CD-ROM
978-0-19-860613-0 (ISBN)
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Description
This CD-ROM version of the new updated edition of the Shorter Oxford English Dictionary allows you to perform fast and comprehensive searches in more than half a million definitions, augmented with thousands of new words and meanings and furnished with a new design. * Provides an extensive coverage of world English as well as a comprehensive coverage of scientific and technical English. * Contains more than half a million definitions with 83,000 illustrative quotations from 7,000 authors. * Entries list meanings chronologically and give dates for first use of each sense. * All major words in English used after 1700, plus the vocabulary of Shakespeare, Milton, Spenser and rhe King James Bible are included. * Provides details of rare and obsolete words. * New software with an easy to use interface and clear functionality. * New, modern and accessible entry design, interface and functionality enhance search and retrieval, with simple and advanced search options. * New sound recordings enable you to listen to standard British pronunciations for over 100,000 words.*
Automatic look-up feature enabling you to access Shorter Oxford English Dictionary definitions from other applications * Hypertext search makes it possible to cross-reference any word in the dictionary with a single mouse click. * Option to install the SOED to the hard disk and run it without the CD-ROM.
Automatic look-up feature enabling you to access Shorter Oxford English Dictionary definitions from other applications * Hypertext search makes it possible to cross-reference any word in the dictionary with a single mouse click. * Option to install the SOED to the hard disk and run it without the CD-ROM.
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Edition
5th Revised edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United Kingdom
Edition type
Revised edition
ISBN-13
978-0-19-860613-0 (9780198606130)
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12/2007
6th Edition
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€84.50
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