The CD-ROM also offers all of the exciting updates made to the dictionary text. It offers a simple and attractive interface which is fully customizable, making it easy to change the text size, fonts, and the color of both text and background. The new edition of the CD-ROM is designed to benefit all users. In addition it features a crossword puzzle solver and anagram solver. Sound recordings enable you to listen to standard British pronunciations for over 100,000 words. There is also an automatic look-up facility by double-clicking on a word in a document or web page the user can view the entry for that word. With an elegant interface providing quick and intuitive searching, it also has advanced searching facilities for in-depth exploration, allowing searching of the definitions, etymologies, subject, geographical region of use, register, and source language, as well as the ability to limit searches by the date of a word's first recorded usage. The CD-ROM is designed to run on both Windows and Apple Macintosh computers. Based on the 20-volume Oxford English Dictionary, the 'Shorter' contains an incredible one-third of the coverage of the Oxford English Dictionary, is just one-tenth of the size, and includes all words in current English from 1700 to the present day, with senses organized chronologically, plus the vocabulary of Shakespeare, the Bible and other major works in English from before 1700. It is an invaluable resource to help broaden your vocabulary and provide quick answers to word puzzles and crossword clues.The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary on CD-ROM features the full text of the Sixth Edition of the Shorter Oxford English Dictionary, which is a complete update of this unique reference work. The WordFinder section of word lists has been fully revised and reorganized with its own quick-reference index and includes topics from clothes and food, to medicine and music, with new lists of foreign words and phrases, archaic words, imitative words, British and American equivalents, and more. ▶ Special Features: Choose the Right Word boxes that help distinguish between close synonyms, plus Word Links panels: look up the word 'coin' and find the link with 'numismatic' ▶ Lists including foreign words and phrases, and imitative words added to the completely revised centre section giving useful vocabulary on a broad range of topics, from clothes and food, to medicine and music ▶ Accessible and easy to use, with synonyms given in order of usefulness and key synonyms highlighted ▶ New and up-to-date synonyms and senses, based on the latest research from the Oxford English Corpus ▶ Authoritative coverage of more synonyms and antonyms than any other A-Z thesaurus This revised edition includes hundreds of brand-new words and senses, as well as up-to-date encyclopedic information, and extensive appendices covering topics such as countries, heads of state, and chemical elements. The Oxford Dictionary of English is at the forefront of language research, focusing on English as it is used today, informed by the most up-to-date evidence from the largest language research programme in the world, including the 800-million-word Oxford English Corpus. ▶ Hundreds of new words and senses derived from the latest research from the Oxford English Corpus, giving the most complete and accurate picture of the English language ▶ The foremost single-volume authority on the English language ▪ search from other applications via a "Services" menu item ▪ hyperlinking between dictionary & thesaurus ▪ wildcard searches for unknown spellings and quizzes ▪ unique three-way cross-referencing search 72,000 pre-recorded sound files from the Shorter Oxford English Dictionary and Oxford SoundBank with native British voice actors.Including extensive reading & reference material, over and above the core content Oxford Thesaurus of English, Second Edition (OTE).
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