... dictionary. 1 Introduction The goal of the project is to enhance the database of the Oxford Dictionary of English (a forthcoming new edition of the 1998 New Oxford Dictionary of English) so that it contains ... George Miller. 1998 . Word- Net: an electronic lexical database. MIT Press, Cambridge, Mass. Judy Pearsall. 1998 . The New Oxford Dictionary of English. Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK. 126 ... typicality, 125 Oxford Dictionary of English: Current Developments James McCracken Oxford University Press mccrackj@oup.co.uk Abstract This research note describes the early stages of a project to...
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... (regulatory body) Ofsted Office for Standards in Education (regulatory body) OFT Office of Fair Trading Oftel Office of Telecommunications (regulatory body) Ofwat Office of Water Services (regulatory ... 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 Railway Regulator ... recognition OD officer of the day; overdose; overdrawn OE Old English OECD Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development OED Oxford English Dictionary OEM original equipment manufacturer OFFER Office...
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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
... Burning question Dorking School of English, Bangkok Thailand www.dk -english. com Page 1 Dictionary of English Idioms and Idiomatic Expressions By Dorking School of English ~ A ~ A bit much If ... spend most of their leisure time horizontal in front of the TV and eats a diet that is mainly junk food. Dorking School of English, Bangkok Thailand www.dk -english. com Page 44 Labour of love ... Dorking School of English, Bangkok Thailand www.dk -english. com Page 20 Death of a thousand cuts If something is suffering the death of a thousand cuts, or death by a thousand cuts, lots of small...
Ngày tải lên: 13/12/2013, 13:15
Tài liệu Dictionary of English Idioms and Idiomatic Expressions docx
... Someone who's full of piss and vinegar is full of youthful energy. Full of the joys of spring If you are full of the joys of spring, you are very happy and full of energy. Full swing If ... literature, and often a writer too. Man of means A man, or woman, of means is wealthy. Man of parts A man of parts is a person who is talented in a number of different areas or ways. Man of straw ... directly with a problem. Grain of salt If you should take something with a grain of salt, you shouldn't necessarily believe it all. ('pinch of salt' is an alternative) Grain of salt...
Ngày tải lên: 20/01/2014, 09:21
Tài liệu OXFORD DICTIONARY OF Biochemistry and Molecular Biology REVISED EDITION Managing Editor Professor pdf
... Editors Teresa K. Attwood Professor of Bioinformatics, Faculty of Life Sciences & School of Computer Science, University of Manchester Richard Cammack (Managing Editor) Professor of Biochemistry, King's ... a decade since the first edition of the Oxford Dictionary of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology. It was a remarkable work of scholarship, arising from the work of journal editors and scientific ... fibres of the sodium salt of duplex DNA at a relative humidity of 75% or less. It consists of a right- handed double helix containing about 11 nucleotide residues per turn, with the planes of the...
Ngày tải lên: 23/01/2014, 07:20
Oxford dictionary of music
... in Vienna of Mozart; host and friend in London of Mendelssohn; org. St Paul's Cath., 1796 1838; composer of th. and church mus. One of first profs. at RAM, 1823. Founder-member of Philharmonic ... Ger. poet who can claim inclusion in a mus. dictionary because of his co-editorship with his future brother-in-law Clemens Brentano of the anthology of German folk poetry Des knaben Wunderhorn ... 75; Prof. of Mus., Oxford Univ. from 1975. Author of books on Monteverdi and G. Gabrieli. Specialist on 16th- and 17th-cent. It. mus. Joint ed. Music and Letters 1976- - 80. Ed., New Oxford...
Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 13:11
Concise Oxford Dictionary of Quotations
... helpful than any other dictionary of 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 ... (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 or magazine with its date of publication. The reference ... alphabetically in the index, each with a section of the text to show the middle of “A.” Under each author, the quotations are arranged in alphabetical order of their first words. Foreign quotations...
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Oxford Dictionary of Medical Quotations ppt
... moderation. A rash of dermatologists, a hive of allergists, a scrub 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, England The aging of an organism is a progressive loss of adaptability as time passes. Introduction to the Oxford Textbook of Geriatric Medicine Oxford ... or motion, which are without pyrexia as a part of the primary disease. Quoted on ‘neurosis’ in The Oxford English Dictionary Bishop Richard Cumberland – Bishop of Peterborough, England It...
Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 01:20
Oxford Dictionary of Idioms docx
... of a number of distinguished composers who have shuffled off their mortal coil in a variety of unusual ways. coin the other side of the coin the opposite or contrasting aspect of ... readers with the title of 1 Stella Gibbons's 1933 parody of sentimental | novels of rural life, Cold Comfort Farm. cold feet loss of nerve or confidence. in the cold light of ... image is of one of the possible j unpleasant side effects of this, involving i bouts of shivering and sweating that cause Bb B plan B an alternative strategy. 1999 8 Days ...
Ngày tải lên: 25/03/2014, 09:20
the oxford history of english sep 2006
... Mediaeval English eds. A. McIntosh, M. L. Samuels, and M. Benskin (Aberdeen: Aberdeen University Press, 1984) LSS Linguistic Survey of Scotland MED Middle English Dictionary OED Oxford English Dictionary RP ... history, the Oxford History of English is, of course, inevit- ably selective. It oVers, however, the invitation to rethink various aspects of the history for the English language—to engage with the ... to explore, questions of transmission, of orality, of scribal culture, of manuscript against print, of private usage and public norms, can all complicate notions of what English can be said to...
Ngày tải lên: 11/06/2014, 10:31
Dictionary of english idioms
... light 99 If you are out like a light, you fall fast asleep. Out of pocket 99 If you are out of pocket on a deal, you have lost money. Out of sight, out of mind 99 Out of sight, out of mind ... positive out of a situation, no matter how unpleasant, difficult or even painful it might seem. Idioms 1 of 49 Dictionary of English Idioms & Idiomatic Expressions Dictionary of English ... Out of sorts 99 If you are feeling a bit upset and depressed, you are out of sorts. Out of the blue 99 If something happens out of the blue, it happens suddenly and unexpectedly. Out of the...
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