On the Appification of Dictionaries: From a Chinese Perspective
... experience regardless of the device they are using to access our free dictionary content. We are always looking for ways to optimize our free online dictionary and we are confident this responsive website design will improve the functionality of Oxford ...
... experience regardless of the device they are using to access our free dictionary content. We are always looking for ways to optimize our free online dictionary and we are confident this responsive website design will improve the functionality of Oxford ...
ludmila alahverdieva - Studii şi cercetări filologice. Seria limbi
... communication, but also an instrument of research and learning. Along the same lines, we should add that (good) dictionaries must put to effective use the comparative and contrastive dimension of applied linguistics. As a didactic means, a good (complex) bilingual dictionary must give a correct and ...
... communication, but also an instrument of research and learning. Along the same lines, we should add that (good) dictionaries must put to effective use the comparative and contrastive dimension of applied linguistics. As a didactic means, a good (complex) bilingual dictionary must give a correct and ...
Parallel Development of Monolingual and Bilingual Dictionaries for
... least for one section of its proposed audience. For instance, an English example sentence which is rejected for a bilingual English-French dictionary because it is ambiguous in French translation is likely to cause problems for native speakers of French who encounter it in a mono lingual dictionary ...
... least for one section of its proposed audience. For instance, an English example sentence which is rejected for a bilingual English-French dictionary because it is ambiguous in French translation is likely to cause problems for native speakers of French who encounter it in a mono lingual dictionary ...
The Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology Edited by C. T. ONIONS
... His astringent scholarship is well known from his work as co-editor of the O.E.D., and later of the Shorter Oxford English Dictionary. His Shakespeare Glossary is also an indispensable aid. Now he has crowned his work with a new etymological dictionary, based in the first instance on the O.E.D. but ...
... His astringent scholarship is well known from his work as co-editor of the O.E.D., and later of the Shorter Oxford English Dictionary. His Shakespeare Glossary is also an indispensable aid. Now he has crowned his work with a new etymological dictionary, based in the first instance on the O.E.D. but ...
Samuel Johnson and Descriptive English
... in Staffordshire, the schoolteacher turned journalist and parliamentary sketch-writer and wanderer and conversationalist who would become one of the towering figures of English letters. The magisterially famous Dr Johnson created his great dictionary in 1755 – in two volumes, in scores of editions, ...
... in Staffordshire, the schoolteacher turned journalist and parliamentary sketch-writer and wanderer and conversationalist who would become one of the towering figures of English letters. The magisterially famous Dr Johnson created his great dictionary in 1755 – in two volumes, in scores of editions, ...
Improve Your Vocabulary
... Vocabulary is best improved by reading and writing. When we learn the meaning of words in context we develop a better feeling for levels of usage and connotation. A dictionary is indispensable in developing our knowledge of words. When we write we should ensure that we know the meaning of a word, th ...
... Vocabulary is best improved by reading and writing. When we learn the meaning of words in context we develop a better feeling for levels of usage and connotation. A dictionary is indispensable in developing our knowledge of words. When we write we should ensure that we know the meaning of a word, th ...
A Dictionary of the English Language
Published on 15 April 1755 and written by Samuel Johnson, A Dictionary of the English Language, sometimes published as Johnson's Dictionary, is among the most influential dictionaries in the history of the English language.There was dissatisfaction with the dictionaries of the period, so in June 1746 a group of London booksellers contracted Johnson to write a dictionary for the sum of 1,500 guineas (£1,575), equivalent to about £220,000 in 2015. Johnson took nearly nine years to complete the work, although he had claimed he could finish it in three. Remarkably, he did so single-handedly, with only clerical assistance to copy out the illustrative quotations that he had marked in books. Johnson produced several revised editions during his life.Until the completion of the Oxford English Dictionary 173 years later, Johnson's was viewed as the pre-eminent English dictionary. According to Walter Jackson Bate, the Dictionary ""easily ranks as one of the greatest single achievements of scholarship, and probably the greatest ever performed by one individual who labored under anything like the disadvantages in a comparable length of time"".