...
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 ... constituent of the thin filaments of muscle and
of the microfilaments found in practically all eukaryotic cells – it
comprises 5–10% of the protein of such cells (see actin filament). In
solutions of ... 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 and
scientific...
... 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., NewOxford ... those of Dom John Stéphan, of Buckfast Abbey, Devon, who in
1947 discussed a newly-discovered MS. of the tune in the handwriting of John Francis Wade, a Lat.
teacher and music copyist of Douai ... 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...
... 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 ... part of a quotation and want to know the rest of it, or who said it, you can
trace it by means of the index (1). The index lists the most significant words from each quotation.
These keywords ...
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...
... 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 ... Medical Publications
Oxford Dictionary of
Medical Quotations
Peter McDonald
1
Great Clarendon Street, Oxford OX2 6DP
Oxford University Press is a department of the University of Oxford.
It furthers...
... dictionary.
1 Introduction
The goal of the project is to enhance the database
of the
Oxford Dictionaryof English
(a forthcoming
new edition of the 1998
New OxfordDictionary of
English)
so that it contains ... Press,
Cambridge, Mass.
Judy Pearsall. 1998.
The NewOxfordDictionary of
English.
Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK.
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matic analysis and grading of defmitions is proving
highly productive in ... richness of a large
natural-language dictionary in providing cues and
flagging exceptions. The stylistic regularity of a
dictionary like ODE supports the enumeration of a
finite (albeit large) list of...
... 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 ... near)
the bone Q (of
a
remark)
penetrating and accurate to the point of
causing
hurt
or discomfort. Q
(of
a
joke or
story)
likely to cause offence because near
the limit of decency.
cut
... 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 day when...
... the
tree.
woodwind
[
"wUd wInd
] n. a group
of musical instruments, many of
which are made of wood or used
to be made of wood, and many of
which are played by blowing air
across a reed.
woodwork ... loudly.
yellow
[
"jEl o
]
1.
n. the color of a
ripe lemon or of the yolk of an
egg. (Plural only for types and
instances.)
2.
the adj. use of Q.
(Comp: yellower; sup: yellowest.)
3.
adj. ...
take the words (right) out of
one’s
mouth
→
true to
one’s
word
→
twist
someone’s
words (around)
the
word 1.
n. an order; a com-
mand. (No plural. Treated as sin-
gular.)
2.
n. news; information.
(No...
... The Oxford Thesaurus goes a step further by offering example sentences to
illustrate the uses of the headwords and their alternatives in natural,
idiomatic contexts.
1. Selection of headwords
... its
best applications, it serves to remind users of words, similar in meaning,
that might not spring readily to mind, and to offer lists ofwords and
phrases that are alternatives to and compromises ... indeed, as a comparison of the
different lengths of the entries in any dictionary will quickly
reveal, language does not provide the same levels of sense
discrimination for all words. The metaphorical...
...
selection of all verbs from a dictionary.
(2)
Extraction
of a substructure, eg extracting a
bilingual dictionary from a trilingual.
(3)
Inversion,
eg of an English-French
dictionary ... to the sum of the
number of elementary information types and the
number of set components in its entry structure.
For example, an English-French dictionary
whose entries consist of an English ... Sdrasset
for the suggestion of the theme and their help, and to the
authors of the DRs for their kind permission of use.
References
Bl~isi C. & Koch H. (1992), Dictionary Entry Parsing
Using...