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Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary of Current English. Special edition in two volumes (USSR, 1982). 7th, 8th and 10th editions of the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. The Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary (OALD) was the first advanced learner's dictionary of English. It was first published in 1948.
Google Books (previously known as Google Book Search, Google Print, and by its code-name Project Ocean) [1] is a service from Google that searches the full text of books and magazines that Google has scanned, converted to text using optical character recognition (OCR), and stored in its digital database. [2]
A book is a medium for recording information in the form of writing or images. Modern books are typically in codex format, composed of many pages that are bound together and protected by a cover; they were preceded by several earlier formats, including the scroll and the tablet.
The advanced learner's dictionary is the most common type of monolingual learner's dictionary, that is, a dictionary written in one language only, for someone who is learning a foreign language. It differs from a bilingual or translation dictionary, a standard dictionary written for native speakers , or a children's dictionary.
It is a dictionary app based on contents from Oxford Dictionary of English and New Oxford American Dictionary. [8] 3rd edition Android version: Published by Oxford University Press ELT. Version 1.2.0 (Android 2.3.3, 2014-11-07): Supports landscape mode. iOS version: Published by Oxford University Press ELT. Version 1.1.1 (iOS 5.0, 2014-03-01):
The Concise Oxford English Dictionary (officially titled The Concise Oxford Dictionary until 2002, and widely abbreviated COD or COED) is one of the best-known of the 'smaller' Oxford dictionaries. The latest edition contains over 240,000 entries and 1,728 pages ("concise" compared to the OED at over 21,000 pages).
Textbooks are produced to meet the needs of educators, usually at educational institutions, but also of learners (who could be independent learners outside of formal education). Schoolbooks are textbooks and other books used in schools. [1] [2] Today, many textbooks are published in both print and digital formats.
Chief editors of the OED [1] Name Dates of chief editorship Notes Herbert Coleridge: 1858–61: Preliminary work. Died in office. Frederick J. Furnivall: 1861–70: Preliminary work. Resigned. James Murray: 1879–1915: 1st edition. Died in office. Henry Bradley: 1915–23: 1st edition. Joined 1887. Died in office. William Craigie: 1923–33