... dictionary. 1 IntroductionThe goal of the project is to enhance the database of the Oxford DictionaryofEnglish (a forthcomingnew edition of the 1998 New OxfordDictionary of English) so that it contains ... George Miller. 1998 . Word-Net: an electronic lexical database. MIT Press,Cambridge, Mass.Judy Pearsall. 1998 . The New OxfordDictionary of English. Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK.126 ... typicality,125 OxfordDictionaryof English: Current DevelopmentsJames McCracken Oxford University Pressmccrackj@oup.co.ukAbstractThis research note describes the early stages of a projectto...
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... Burning question Dorking School of English, Bangkok Thailand www.dk -english. com Page 1 Dictionary ofEnglish Idioms and Idiomatic Expressions By Dorking School ofEnglish ~ 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 44Labour of love ... Dorking School of English, Bangkok Thailand www.dk -english. com Page 20Death of a thousand cuts If something is suffering the death of a thousand cuts, or death by a thousand cuts, lots of small...
... 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...
... EditorsTeresa K. Attwood Professor of Bioinformatics,Faculty of Life Sciences & School of Computer Science,University of ManchesterRichard Cammack (Managing Editor) Professor of Biochemistry, King's ... a decade since the first edition of the OxfordDictionary of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology. It was a remarkable work of scholarship, arising from the work of journal editors andscientific ... fibres of the sodium salt of duplexDNA at a relative humidity of 75% or less. It consists of a right-handed double helix containing about 11 nucleotide residues perturn, with the planes of the...
... 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...
... helpful than any 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 ... (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...
... 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 ... or motion, which are without pyrexia as apart of the primary disease.Quoted on ‘neurosis’ in The OxfordEnglish Dictionary Bishop Richard Cumberland–Bishop of Peterborough, EnglandIt...
... 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...
... Mediaeval English eds. A. McIntosh, M. L.Samuels, and M. Benskin (Aberdeen: Aberdeen University Press, 1984)LSS Linguistic Survey of ScotlandMED Middle English Dictionary OED OxfordEnglish Dictionary RP ... history, the Oxford History ofEnglish is, of course, inevit-ably selective. It oVers, however, the invitation to rethink various aspects of thehistory 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 publicnorms, can all complicate notions of what English can be said to...
... 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 ofEnglish Idioms & Idiomatic Expressions Dictionary ofEnglish ... 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...