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From the Publisher: As Oxford's flagship American dictionary, the New Oxford American Dictionary sets the standard of excellence for lexicography in this country. With more than 350,000 words, phrases, and senses, hundreds of explanatory notes, and more than a thousand illustrations, this dictionary provides the most comprehensive and accurate coverage of American English available. The dictionary draws on the two-billion-word Oxford English Corpus and the unrivaled citation files of the world-renowned Oxford English Dictionary to provide the most accurate and richly descriptive picture of American English ever offered in any dictionary. The Third Edition offers a thoroughly updated text, with revisions throughout and approximately 2,000 new words, phrases, and meanings. Many new words relate to fast-moving areas such as computing, technology, current affairs, and ecology, while others have recently entered the popular lexicon.
Usage notes have been updated in light of the most recent Corpus evidence, and a completely new in-text feature on Word Trends charts usage for rapidly changing words and phrases such as carbon, mobile, or tweet. In addition, the volume has an attractive, modern new text design that makes entries easier to read and find. One of the hallmarks of the New Oxford American Dictionary is the way it reflects the living language. Unlike in more traditional dictionaries, where meanings are ordered chronologically according to the history of the language, each entry plainly shows the principal meaning or meanings of the word, organized by importance in today's English. Thus readers can be confident that the first definition they see is the one most likely to be used by people today, and is not a sense that has been obsolete for two centuries.
Offering clear, authoritative, and precise information, with the in-depth and up-to-date coverage that users need and expect, the New Oxford American Dictionary is the benchmark by which all other American dictionaries are measured.… (plus d'informations)
Thumb indexes provide easy access to the quarter of a million entries. The illustation credits cites the Library of Congress in the Ready Reference section in the back of the book pages. The front of the work includes Pronunciations along with detail on how to use the dictionary.
An individual entry begins with the word, pronunciation, part of speach, core sense and subsenses separated by a ■ (block symbol). Some entries will have: verb inflections, variant spelling, plural spelling cross reference entry - another term for encyclopidic information, or additional information or technical information Phrases in bold with typical use in italics Derivatives Origin homonyms label - subject, currency, typical form, grammatical information Alternative names - see also
Lexicography is an art that is constantly being refined. Taking all working elements from previous editions, the editors of the latest Oxford American Dictionary more than adequately fill the needs of professional writers and average readers. Comparing smaller size editions, in the new version one will see "usage boxes" below the standard definitions for many entries that guide users to recognize the subtleties of the English language. The extensive pronunciation key helps to distinguish American regional dialects from international English "voices." If readers prefer margin indenting to simple block listing for definitions, then this edition fulfills the requirement. However, when compared to the American Heritage Dictionary (Deluxe 4th edition), the New Oxford falls short. Noticeably the printed entries are smaller than in the American Heritage. Appearing with color print, the American Heritage has a greater advantage as main terms are set apart from other text. Further in the American Heritage, more examples of sentences used in context are listed. If readers also enjoy having more color illustrations, then the American Heritage will fulfill this desire. Yet for those wanting a scaled-down version for academic writing without an "encyclopedic" flare, then the New Oxford American Dictionary is the logical choice. ( )
This is the dictionary that comes pre-loaded on the Kindle, and I've found it incredibly helpful. It's easy to cross-reference, and contains good examples and uses of all the defined words. ( )
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Introduction: The New Oxford American Dictionary has been compiled according to principles that are quite different from those of traditional American dictionaries.
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The History of English: English Today: As a result of absorbing words from all of these sources, English often has many synonyms from different languages to express the same idea, such as fear (from Old English), terror (from French), alarm, (from Italian), trepidation (from Latin), and angst (from German).
From the Publisher: As Oxford's flagship American dictionary, the New Oxford American Dictionary sets the standard of excellence for lexicography in this country. With more than 350,000 words, phrases, and senses, hundreds of explanatory notes, and more than a thousand illustrations, this dictionary provides the most comprehensive and accurate coverage of American English available. The dictionary draws on the two-billion-word Oxford English Corpus and the unrivaled citation files of the world-renowned Oxford English Dictionary to provide the most accurate and richly descriptive picture of American English ever offered in any dictionary. The Third Edition offers a thoroughly updated text, with revisions throughout and approximately 2,000 new words, phrases, and meanings. Many new words relate to fast-moving areas such as computing, technology, current affairs, and ecology, while others have recently entered the popular lexicon.
Usage notes have been updated in light of the most recent Corpus evidence, and a completely new in-text feature on Word Trends charts usage for rapidly changing words and phrases such as carbon, mobile, or tweet. In addition, the volume has an attractive, modern new text design that makes entries easier to read and find. One of the hallmarks of the New Oxford American Dictionary is the way it reflects the living language. Unlike in more traditional dictionaries, where meanings are ordered chronologically according to the history of the language, each entry plainly shows the principal meaning or meanings of the word, organized by importance in today's English. Thus readers can be confident that the first definition they see is the one most likely to be used by people today, and is not a sense that has been obsolete for two centuries.
Offering clear, authoritative, and precise information, with the in-depth and up-to-date coverage that users need and expect, the New Oxford American Dictionary is the benchmark by which all other American dictionaries are measured.
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