Oxford English Dictionary 4.0.0.3 | 624 MB
TheOxford English Dictionary is the accepted authority on the evolution ofthe English language over the last millennium. It is an unsurpassedguide to the meaning, history, and pronunciation of over half a millionwords, both present and past. It traces the usage of words through 2.5million quotations from a wide range of international English languagesources, from classic literature and specialist periodicals to filmscripts and cookery books.
The OEDcovers words from across the English-speaking world, from North Americato South Africa, from Australia and New Zealand to the Caribbean. Italso offers the best in etymological analysis and in listing of variantspellings, and it shows pronunciation using the International PhoneticAlphabet.
As the OED is a historical dictionary, its entrystructure is very different from that of a dictionary of currentEnglish, in which only present-day senses are covered, and in which themost common meanings or senses are described first. For each word inthe OED, the various groupings of senses are dealt with inchronological order according to the quotation evidence, i.e. thesenses with the earliest quotations appear first, and the senses whichhave developed more recently appear further down the entry. In acomplex entry with many strands, the development over time can be seenin a structure with several branches.
Features and benefits:
*The Oxford English Dictionary is the internationally recognizedauthority on the English Language, defining more than 500,000 words andtracing their usage through 2.5 million quotations from a wide range ofliterary and other sources. The text on the CD-ROM comprises the fulltext of the OED 2nd Edition, plus the three Additions volumes, as wellas 7,000 new entries from the OEDs continuing research
* OED v4.0 onCD-ROM boasts superb search-and-retrieval software, designedspecifically for the electronic version, enabling you to investigatethe Dictionary in ways not possible with the print edition. Questionswhich might have taken years of patient research can now be answered inseconds.
Existing functionality retained from earlier versions includes:
* Installation to the hard drive, so the CD is not required during use of the Dictionary
* Options to customize the entry display and show or hide pronunciations, spellings, etymology, and quotation text
*Flexible full text search options, with search filters and an option torank entries and search results alphabetically or by date
New to this version:
* Now available to Mac users
* Flash-base
* Smoother and faster performance providing instantaneous search results
* New word-wheel which supports incremental letter-by-letter browsing
* 7,000 new words and meanings
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