Author: Merriam-Webster, Inc
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 820
Book Description
A handy guide to problems of confused or disputed usage based on the critically acclaimed Merriam-Webster's Dictionary of English Usage. Over 2,000 entries explain the background and basis of usage controversies and offer expert advice and recommendations.
Merriam-Webster's Concise Dictionary of English Usage
Author: Merriam-Webster, Inc
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 820
Book Description
A handy guide to problems of confused or disputed usage based on the critically acclaimed Merriam-Webster's Dictionary of English Usage. Over 2,000 entries explain the background and basis of usage controversies and offer expert advice and recommendations.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 820
Book Description
A handy guide to problems of confused or disputed usage based on the critically acclaimed Merriam-Webster's Dictionary of English Usage. Over 2,000 entries explain the background and basis of usage controversies and offer expert advice and recommendations.
Webster's New World College Dictionary, Fifth Edition
Author: Editors of Editors of Webster's New World College Dictionaries
Publisher: Webster's New World
ISBN: 9780358126614
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 1728
Book Description
Webster's New World College Dictionary is a favorite of newsrooms and copyeditors nationwide, and it is the official dictionary of The Associated Press Stylebook.This dictionary features a clear and accessible defining style, abundant synonym notes, full-page tables and charts, hundreds of drawings that complement the definitions, and authoritative guidance on usage and style points. It also includes extensive coverage of Americanisms (words, phrases, and senses coined by an American or first used in the United States). It has added nearly 5,000 new entries, including terms from the areas of arts and sports, science and medicine, computers and the Internet, food, business, politics, and law. Tens of thousands of revisions have been made to existing senses, to bring them up-to-date and to reflect current usage. A reference supplement includes: Rules of punctuation, Roman numerals, Calendars, Monetary units, Currency symbols, Names for large number, Books of the Bible, Meteorological data, Commonly used weights and measures, Planets of the solar system, Geologic time scale, and Periodic table of the elements.
Publisher: Webster's New World
ISBN: 9780358126614
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 1728
Book Description
Webster's New World College Dictionary is a favorite of newsrooms and copyeditors nationwide, and it is the official dictionary of The Associated Press Stylebook.This dictionary features a clear and accessible defining style, abundant synonym notes, full-page tables and charts, hundreds of drawings that complement the definitions, and authoritative guidance on usage and style points. It also includes extensive coverage of Americanisms (words, phrases, and senses coined by an American or first used in the United States). It has added nearly 5,000 new entries, including terms from the areas of arts and sports, science and medicine, computers and the Internet, food, business, politics, and law. Tens of thousands of revisions have been made to existing senses, to bring them up-to-date and to reflect current usage. A reference supplement includes: Rules of punctuation, Roman numerals, Calendars, Monetary units, Currency symbols, Names for large number, Books of the Bible, Meteorological data, Commonly used weights and measures, Planets of the solar system, Geologic time scale, and Periodic table of the elements.
An American Dictionary of the English Language
Author: Noah Webster
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 1122
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 1122
Book Description
The Merriam-Webster Dictionary
Author: Merriam-Webster
Publisher: Merriam-Webster
ISBN: 9780877790952
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
New edition! A handy, reliable, and authoritative dictionary of words most frequently used in Englis. More than 75,000 definitions, 2,000 new word entries, and more than 150 illustrations. Expanded special features include a Handbook of Style, Basic English Grammar, Irregular English Verbs and a Guid eto Common Verb Collocations (both essential for ESL), and a new Overview of the Internet.
Publisher: Merriam-Webster
ISBN: 9780877790952
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
New edition! A handy, reliable, and authoritative dictionary of words most frequently used in Englis. More than 75,000 definitions, 2,000 new word entries, and more than 150 illustrations. Expanded special features include a Handbook of Style, Basic English Grammar, Irregular English Verbs and a Guid eto Common Verb Collocations (both essential for ESL), and a new Overview of the Internet.
Webster's New Collegiate Dictionary
Author: Henry Bosley Woolf
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780877793304
Category : Anglais (Langue) - Dictionnaires
Languages : en
Pages : 1568
Book Description
Based on Webster's third new international dictionary.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780877793304
Category : Anglais (Langue) - Dictionnaires
Languages : en
Pages : 1568
Book Description
Based on Webster's third new international dictionary.
Webster's New Explorer College Dictionary
Author: Merriam-Webster, Inc
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781596951358
Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
More than 100,000 definitions with 1,000 illustrations. 28,000 examples of word usage. Extensive Geographical Names and Biographical Names sections.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781596951358
Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
More than 100,000 definitions with 1,000 illustrations. 28,000 examples of word usage. Extensive Geographical Names and Biographical Names sections.
Webster's II New College Dictionary
Author: Houghton Mifflin Company
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 9780395962145
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 1542
Book Description
Newly revised and updated, "Webster's II New College Dictionary" contains more than 200,000 definitions, including scientific, technology, and computer terms. 400 line drawings.
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 9780395962145
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 1542
Book Description
Newly revised and updated, "Webster's II New College Dictionary" contains more than 200,000 definitions, including scientific, technology, and computer terms. 400 line drawings.
The Oxford American College Dictionary
Author:
Publisher: Penguin Putnam
ISBN:
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 1704
Book Description
The Oxford American College Dictionaryis completely new, based on the New Oxford American Dictionary, which was published in October 2001. Drawing on Oxford's unparalleled language resources, including a 200-million-word database, this college dictionary contains: * more than 175,000 entries and more than 1000 illustrations, including line drawings, photographs and maps * boxed quotes from famous writers, demonstrating word usage and style * country guides-shaded boxes highlighting the most important geographical information on more than 180 countries-with maps * "core sense" organization of definitions, a brand-new and utterly sensible plan in which subordinate definitions flow logically from primary ones, and the most important usage of the word comes first * thumb index tabs for easy searching
Publisher: Penguin Putnam
ISBN:
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 1704
Book Description
The Oxford American College Dictionaryis completely new, based on the New Oxford American Dictionary, which was published in October 2001. Drawing on Oxford's unparalleled language resources, including a 200-million-word database, this college dictionary contains: * more than 175,000 entries and more than 1000 illustrations, including line drawings, photographs and maps * boxed quotes from famous writers, demonstrating word usage and style * country guides-shaded boxes highlighting the most important geographical information on more than 180 countries-with maps * "core sense" organization of definitions, a brand-new and utterly sensible plan in which subordinate definitions flow logically from primary ones, and the most important usage of the word comes first * thumb index tabs for easy searching
Webster's New World College Dictionary
Author: Victoria Neufeldt
Publisher: MacMillan Reference Library
ISBN:
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 1640
Book Description
Offers hundreds of new words and meanings, including many unique to American English, with thousands of examples of current usage.
Publisher: MacMillan Reference Library
ISBN:
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 1640
Book Description
Offers hundreds of new words and meanings, including many unique to American English, with thousands of examples of current usage.
Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Thesaurus
Author: Merriam-Webster, Inc
Publisher: Merriam-Webster
ISBN: 9780877793700
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 1184
Book Description
Find the right word every time with this indispensable guide! Concise definitions pinpoint meanings shared by synonyms. More than 275,000 word choices, examples, and explanations. Sample sentences and phrases for each synonym at its own entry clarify how words are used in context. Alphabetical lists may also include related words, idiomatic phrases, near antonyms, and antonyms. A perfect companion to the best-selling Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, 11th Ed.
Publisher: Merriam-Webster
ISBN: 9780877793700
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 1184
Book Description
Find the right word every time with this indispensable guide! Concise definitions pinpoint meanings shared by synonyms. More than 275,000 word choices, examples, and explanations. Sample sentences and phrases for each synonym at its own entry clarify how words are used in context. Alphabetical lists may also include related words, idiomatic phrases, near antonyms, and antonyms. A perfect companion to the best-selling Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, 11th Ed.