Oxford English Mini Dictionary

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The Chambers Crossword Dictionary* is the perfect tool for any crossword solver – and you know it because it is used by the setters themselves! Now published: 4th edition. Read more > Thousands of definitions, offering clear explanations for learners, comprehensive coverage of British and American English for native speakers, and specialized definitions for a range of specific subject areas When a deviser has given specific information concerning the dance name, as for example in Jean Attwood's Lady Sophia Lindsay, this is included. If not, some information relating to the title is supplied; this information should be considered to be our best guess at the deviser's intentions and should not be taken as definitive or authoritative. A glossary is a section at the end of a written work that defines confusing, technical, or advanced words. You can think of a glossary as a mini-dictionary for words used in that work. Glossaries are commonly used in research papers and academic books to explain special words or jargon readers wouldn’t understand.

When Dancers perform the same Figure in different parts of The set, for example, 1st and 3rdCouples in many 5Couple set dances, MiniCrib uses the form 1s and 3s to indicate this whereas MaxiCrib uses 1s3s; An unparalleled resource for word lovers, word gamers, and word geeks everywhere, Collins online Unabridged English Dictionary draws on Collins extensive language databases and covers many literary and rare words useful for crossword solvers and setters as well as Scrabble players. As usual, it has been extensively trialled with schools, so you can be sure it is still the best dictionary for your children, in a portable mini format. Further help with writing skills is available in the updated new edition of the companion Oxford School Thesaurus.

Our own, far fewer, MaxiCribs, are a typical compiler's accumulated database, started in digital form some 30 years ago and updated as required. The criteria for inclusion are: English Dictionary English-French Dictionary English-German Dictionary English-Italian Dictionary English-Portuguese Dictionary English-Spanish Dictionary English-Hindi Dictionary English-Chinese Dictionary English-Korean Dictionary English-Japanese Dictionary A glossary is a section at the end of a written work that defines confusing, technical, or advanced words. You can think of glossaries as a mini-dictionary for words used in that work. Glossaries are commonly used in research papers and academic books to explain certain words readers wouldn’t understand. What does a glossary do?

Reference Col 1 Times Books A-Z Astronomy Gardening National Parks National Trust Books Road Maps & Atlases World Atlases Furthermore, because glossaries include only the words that appear in a work, readers can look them up faster than in a dictionary, which has an entire language’s worth of words. Glossary example No books. No rote memorization. No chance of failure. Your chance to have a one-to-one lesson with best-selling language expert Paul Noble, try a FREE audio sample of his brand new Mandarin Chinese course. Dictionaries & language learning Col 1 Dictionaries Paul Noble Easy learning languages Free dictionary resourcesRevision Col 3 Collins at Home | Support for schools Home tutors Letts Revision Collins4Parents Collins Book Sale Revision for students Glossaries and indexes are sometimes mixed up because they both come at the end of a work and are organized alphabetically by keyword. Despite their similarities, though, glossaries and indexes serve two different purposes. apostrophe: a punctuation mark ( ‘ ) used to create the possessive form of a noun and to show certain letters are omitted in contractions. n x m, where n and m are numbers, means that the music for the dance consists of n Repeats, each of length m bars. There are two types of wildcard. The first is a question mark ?, which matches a single character. The second is an asterisk *, which matches zero or more characters. The two kinds of wildcard can be mixed in a single search.