... the database of the Oxford Dictionary of English (a forthcoming new edition of the 1998 New Oxford Dictionary of English) so that it contains not only the original dictionary content but also ... assignment of further indicators to statistically similar defini- tions. Automatic assignment is a little more straightforward and robust here, since most of the time the occurrence of strongly-typed ... exceptions. The stylistic regularity of a dictionary like ODE supports the enumeration of a finite (albeit large) list of structures and patterns which can be matched against a given entry or...
Ngày tải lên: 24/03/2014, 03:20
... Bank NSPCA National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals NSPCC National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children NT New Testament; National Theatre; National Trust NTP normal temperature ... equipment manufacturer OFFER Office of Electricity Regulation (regulatory body) Ofgas Office of Gas Supply (regulatory body) Oflot Office of the National Lottery (regulatory body) Ofrail Office of the ... high-speed train) TLS Times Literary Supplement TM trademark; transcendental meditation TNT trinitrotoluene; trinitrotoluol TSB Trustee Savings Bank TUC Trades Union Congress U u.c. in typography,...
Ngày tải lên: 26/06/2013, 01:27
Tài liệu The Oxford Dictionary of Allusions (2001)_ Delahunty, Dignen, & Stock pptx
Ngày tải lên: 10/12/2013, 12:15
Tài liệu Dictionary of English Idioms and Idiomatic Expressions pptx
... first. First out of the gate When someone is first out of the gate, they are the first to do something that others are trying to do. First port of call The first place you stop to do something ... particularly good at judging the quality of something. Discretion is the better part of valour This idiom means that it is often better to think carefully and not act than to do something that may cause ... gets their just deserts, they get the punishment or suffer the misfortune that it is felt they deserve. Just in the nick of time If you do something in the nick of time, you just manage to...
Ngày tải lên: 13/12/2013, 13:15
Tài liệu Dictionary of English Idioms and Idiomatic Expressions docx
... nuts If you do something from soup to nuts, you do it from the beginning right to the very end. From the bottom of your heart If someone does something from the bottom of their heart, then they ... Just deserts If a bad or evil person gets their just deserts, they get the punishment or suffer the misfortune that it is felt they deserve. Just in the nick of time If you do something in the ... come to understand it even though it is difficult to comprehend. Get your teeth into <p>If you get your teeth into something, you become involved in or do something that is intellectually...
Ngày tải lên: 20/01/2014, 09:21
Tài liệu OXFORD DICTIONARY OF Biochemistry and Molecular Biology REVISED EDITION Managing Editor Professor pdf
... a solution to absorb electromagnetic radiation incident upon it. It equals the logarithm of the ratio of the radiant power of the inci- dent radiation, U 0 , to the radiant power of the transmitted ... transfer of the amino acid to an ester link with the 3′-terminal hydroxyl of tRNA. activated complex term that may be used to denote the assembly of atoms at the transition state of a chemical reaction. activation ... radia- tion, U. For a solution, absorbance is expressed as the logarithm of the ratio of the radiant power of light transmitted through the ref- erence sample to that of the light transmitted through...
Ngày tải lên: 23/01/2014, 07:20
Oxford dictionary of music
... [cl8][cm[ap[dt5vg,1v,2v,3v,][btAugmented [nt1st: [ntC up to C# [et[bt,,[qc[nt2nd: [ntC up to D# [et[bt,,[qc[nt4th: [ntC up to F# [et[bt,,[qc[nt5th: [ntC up to G#, with harmonic implication of major ... varied with the thickness of the str. and the velocity of the wind to give a chordal effect. The Aeolian harp was popular from the late 16th or early 17th cents. to the late 19th cent. Now made ... length from about 7' to 12'. It has a similar mouthpiece to that of the cornet, and is restricted to notes of the harmonic series. Strauss wrote a part for Alphorn in Daphne, but it...
Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 13:11
Concise Oxford Dictionary of Quotations
... find this entry: tribe: To purify the dialect of the t. ELIOT 74:19 This will lead you to the poem by T. S. Eliot which is the nineteenth quotation on page 74. Table of Contents Preface How to ... memorable that they quote it (or allude to it) in speech or writing. Often they will quote it directly, introducing it with a phrase like “As——says” but equally often they will assume that the reader ... after each quotation to its original source or to an authoritative record of its use. The reference usually consists of either (a) a book-title with its date of publication and a reference to...
Ngày tải lên: 16/03/2014, 21:42
Oxford Dictionary of Medical Quotations ppt
... definition of psychiatry is the care of the id by the odd. The principal objection to old age is that there is no future in it. The psychiatrist is the obstetrician of the mind. The publication of ... functions that resist death. Attributed We cannot therefore deny that a change in just one of an organ’s tissues is frequently enough to disturb the functions in all the others; yet likewise, it ... () The reason that academic disputes are so bitter is that the stakes are so small. There are two kinds of sleep. The sleep of the just and the sleep of the just after. There is no bed shortage...
Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 01:20
Oxford Dictionary of Idioms docx
... the better to — so as to — better. 1986 Peter Mathiessen Men's lives Francis ran both motors with their housings off, the better to tinker with them. get the better of ... 'You must j empty out the bathing-tub, but not the baby i j along with it.' 1998 New Scientist It is easy to throw out the baby with the bathwater when it comes to UFO ... crack of the whip fair treatment; a chance to participate or compete on equal terms. British informal 1989 T. M. Albert Tales of the Ulster Detective You might think that the...
Ngày tải lên: 25/03/2014, 09:20
the oxford history of english sep 2006
... progress of transitions in usage—which preoccupies other chapters. The history of English is, in this sense, not a series of static states but, at each and every point in time, patterns of variation ... continued on a signiWcant scale over the best part of three centuries. The forms of English that the migrants took with them varied considerably according to such factors as the part of Britain ... cases the identity of the words or the meaning of the texts cannot be conWdently made out. In such circumstances it is not surprising that there is uncertainty surrounding the nature of the language...
Ngày tải lên: 11/06/2014, 10:31