Author: Publisher: Oxford University ISBN: Category : Reference Languages : en Pages : 436
Book Description
Abbreviations are a part of everyday life and are becoming increasingly prevalent in the areas of banking, computers, and business. Compiled from the resources of the Oxford English Dictionary and a wide range of newspapers and journals, Dictionary of Abbreviations, Second Edition is the most up-to-date and comprehensive guide to abbreviations available in paperback. Covering all the most important business, scientific, and technical abbreviations, as well as those in everyday use, the dictionary contains over 20,000 abbreviations and 36,000 definitions. Included here are acronyms (ROM, NATO), initialisms (OED, CFC), shortenings (Sun. for Sunday), symbols, and signs (K, HZ, and A4), as well as hybrid forms (A-bomb). Coverage is also international in scope, and graphic symbols such as proofreading marks, hallmarks, music, science, and weather symbols are all provided in a series of appendices. This new edition, containing 1,700 new headwords and senses, also provides the latest abbreviations for organizations, terms used in advertising, computers and the internet, medicine, and government.
Author: John Daintith Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA ISBN: Category : Reference Languages : en Pages : 438
Book Description
Compiled from the resources of the Oxford English Dictionary and a wide range of national newspapers and journals, this is a brand new and totally up-to-date guide to every kind of abbreviation. Covering the most important business, scientific, and technical abbreviation, as well as those in everyday use, the dictionary includes acronyms, initialisms, shortenings, symbols and signs, and hybrid forms. Graphics symbols such as proofreading marks, hallmarks, music, science, and weather symbols are all given in a series of appendices. Anyone who reads or writes current English will find this accessible reference useful, but it will be indispensable to professionals, businesses, technical writers, and journalists.
Author: Market House Books Ltd Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA ISBN: Category : Reference Languages : en Pages : 428
Book Description
Compiled from the resources of the Oxford English Dictionary and a wide range of newspapers and journals, this is the most up-to-date and comprehensive guide to abbreviations available in paperback. Covering all the most important business, scientific, and technical abbreviations, as well as those in everyday use, the dictionary has over 19,000 entries, and includes acronyms (ROM, NATO), initialisms (OED, CFC), shortenings (Sun. for Sunday), symbols and signs (e.g. K, HZ, and A4), and hybrid forms (A-bomb). Coverage is also international in scope, and graphic symbols such as proofreading marks, hallmarks, music, science, and weather symbols are all given in a series of appendices. Anyone who reads or writes current English will find this accessible reference useful, but it will be indispensable to professionals, businesses, technical writers, and journalists.
Author: John A. Simpson Publisher: Oxford University Press ISBN: 9780195218893 Category : Reference Languages : en Pages :
Book Description
The Oxford English Dictionary is the internationally recognized authority on the evolution of the English language from 1150 to the present day. The Dictionary defines over 500,000 words, making it an unsurpassed guide to the meaning, pronunciation, and history of the English language. This new upgrade version of The Oxford English Dictionary Second Edition on CD-ROM offers unparalleled access to the world's most important reference work for the English language. The text of this version has been augmented with the inclusion of the Oxford English Dictionary Additions Series (Volumes 1-3), published in 1993 and 1997, the Bibliography to the Second Edition, and other ancillary material. System requirements: PC with minimum 200 MHz Pentium-class processor; 32 MB RAM (64 MB recommended); 16-speed CD-ROM drive (32-speed recommended); Windows 95, 98, Me, NT, 200, or XP (Local administrator rights are required to install and open the OED for the first time on a PC running Windows NT 4 and to install and run the OED on Windows 2000 and XP); 1.1 GB hard disk space to run the OED from the CD-ROM and 1.7 GB to install the CD-ROM to the hard disk: SVGA monitor: 800 x 600 pixels: 16-bit (64k, high color) setting recommended. Please note: for the upgrade, installation requires the use of the OED CD-ROM v2.0.
Author: Berkley Publishing Group Publisher: Berkley Publishing Group ISBN: 9780425197042 Category : Abbreviations, English Languages : en Pages : 0
Book Description
From LAN to LOL, SWAT to SWAK, this dictionary contains full explanations of nearly 20,000 abbreviations for today's acronym-heavy world, including slang, the Internet, emoticons, and text-messaging abbreviations. Original.
Author: John Daintith Publisher: ISBN: 9780198631354 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 363
Book Description
The Oxford Minidictionary of Abbreviations: over 8,000 modern abbreviations; up to date and easy to use; pronunciations; the most comprehensive small abbreviations dictionary; hundreds of new abbreviations, for example CIS, OFTEL, PC, SAT, and DCC.
Author: Julia Cresswell Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA ISBN: 0199547939 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 514
Book Description
Contains alphabetically arranged entries that explore the origin, evolution, and social history of over three thousand English language words.
Author: Graham Gooch Publisher: OUP Oxford ISBN: 9780192807021 Category : Law Languages : en Pages : 432
Book Description
The only dictionary available focusing on UK law enforcement, this invaluable volume covers every aspect of criminal law including pathology, forensic medicine, commerce and trade, criminology, and psychology. Essential reference for trainee and practising police officers, and other professionals needing clear definitions of law enforcement terms.
Author: Elizabeth A. Martin Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA ISBN: 0199666377 Category : Medical Languages : en Pages : 642
Book Description
This dictionary incorporates new material on the major developments of the last few years, including public health medicine, genetics and organ transplantation. The dictionary includes more than 10,200 clear and concise entries.
Author: J. A. Simpson Publisher: Oxford [Oxfordshire] ; New York : Oxford University Press ISBN: Category : Reference Languages : en Pages : 282
Book Description
The dictionary gives explanations of the meanings and use of proverbs whenever these are obscure. By means of numerous illustrative quotations it also provides a documentary history of each proverb from its first recorded use in written English, and supplies details of earlier related forms in other languages.
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Author: John Daintith
Author: Market House Books Ltd
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Author: John Daintith
Author: Julia Cresswell
Author: Graham Gooch
Author: Elizabeth A. Martin
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