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... other dictionaryof modern quotations. TONY AUGARDE (1) Discussions of the index features in this preface and in the “How to Use this Dictionary section of this book refer to the hard-copy edition. ... index has been included in this soft-copy edition. See “Notices” in topic NOTICES for additional information about this soft-copy edition. How to Use this Dictionary HOW TO.1 General Principles ... record of its use. The reference usually consists of either (a) a book-title with its date of publication and a reference to where the quotation occurs in the book; or (b) the title of a newspaper...
... moderation.A rash of dermatologists, a hive of allergists, ascrub of interns, a giggle of nurses, a flood of urologists, a pile of proctologists, an eyeful of ophthalmologists, a whiff of anesthesiologists, ... –Professor of Clinical Gerontology, Oxford, EnglandThe aging of an organism is a progressive loss of adaptability as time passes.Introduction to the Oxford Textbook of Geriatric Medicine Oxford ... Medical Publications Oxford Dictionary of Medical QuotationsPeter McDonald1 Great Clarendon Street, Oxford OX2 6DP Oxford University Press is a department of the University of Oxford. It furthers...
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... dictionary. 1 IntroductionThe goal of the project is to enhance the database of the Oxford Dictionaryof English (a forthcomingnew editionof the 1998 New OxfordDictionary of English) so that it contains ... Press,Cambridge, Mass.Judy Pearsall. 1998. The New OxfordDictionary of English. Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK.126 matic analysis and grading of defmitions is provinghighly productive in ... richness of a largenatural-language dictionary in providing cues andflagging exceptions. The stylistic regularity of a dictionary like ODE supports the enumeration of afinite (albeit large) list of...
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... PAPERBACK EDITION We were delighted to receive very well-informed comments from a number of sources on the publication of the hardback editionof this book. One correspondent even devoted much of ... or is capable of An American phrase of late nine- teenth-century origin. It probably refers to the offering of a bite from a plug of tobacco. A greedy man would naturally bite off as much as ... which a plug of tobacco would be offered for a free bite. The biter would then take off as much as he could fit into his mouth, whereupon the owner of the plug would gaze at the stump of tobacco...