Collins Dictionary of the English Language

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This new and expanded edition of Collins English
Dictionary is the most comprehensive, the most up-to-date,
and the most informative single-volume dictionary of the
English language currently available.
Among its many outstanding features are these:
• Systematic surveys of over 200 fields of knowledge by
expert consultants and specialist editors ensure an
extensive and balanced treatment of today's language.
• Special attention has been given in this new edition to
rapidly changing fields like electronics, information
technology, computers, physics, life sciences, and
aerospace.
• The single A-to-Z listing ensures that compound words,
derivatives that have a meaning of their own,
abbreviations and foreign words are all readily found as
main entries.
• Full, rounded definitions are written in straightforward
language free from dictionary jargon, abbreviations, and
complicated typographical symbols.
# The most important current meanings come first,
followed by... Tovább

Fülszöveg

This new and expanded edition of Collins English
Dictionary is the most comprehensive, the most up-to-date,
and the most informative single-volume dictionary of the
English language currently available.
Among its many outstanding features are these:
• Systematic surveys of over 200 fields of knowledge by
expert consultants and specialist editors ensure an
extensive and balanced treatment of today's language.
• Special attention has been given in this new edition to
rapidly changing fields like electronics, information
technology, computers, physics, life sciences, and
aerospace.
• The single A-to-Z listing ensures that compound words,
derivatives that have a meaning of their own,
abbreviations and foreign words are all readily found as
main entries.
• Full, rounded definitions are written in straightforward
language free from dictionary jargon, abbreviations, and
complicated typographical symbols.
# The most important current meanings come first,
followed by technical, rarer, and obsolete meanings.
# The provision of international encyclopedic material —
biographies of famous people and accounts of important
cities, regions, and countries — that was so welcomed in
the first edition has been reassessed and expanded.
# The outstanding coverage of science and technology that
distinguished the first edition has been strengthened, with
special emphasis on the sciences and technologies of
modern living.
# Full, precise pronunciations are provided in a
transcription specially adapted from the International
Phonetic Alphabet.
# Etymologies are given without cryptic abbreviations and
are both readable and informative, noting, for example,
the date of the first known use in English of imported
words.
• Usage notes provide guidance, where necessary, on
difficult points of grammar, syntax, or idiom. Vissza