The New Collins Concise Dictionary of the English Language/The New Collins Thesaurus

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THE NEW
COLLINS
CONCISE
ENGLISH
DICTIONARY
This important new dictionary is based on the authoritative COLLINS ENGLISH DICTIONARY. It contains over 1.6 million words of text and over 96,000 vocabulary references and provides an up-to-date survey of contemporary international English.
* The treatment is wide-ranging, systematic, and balanced, being based on methodical analyses of over 200 fields of knowledge and activity by expert consultants and specialist editors for CoUim English Dictionary. The material has been reassessed, edited, and where necessary supplemented with new vocabulary.
* Over 53,000 headwords (a higher percentage than in other dictionaries) ensure that compound words and derived words that have their own meanings are found where they belong - in their alphabetical place in their own right, not buried in long and complicated portmanteau entries. The improvement in the speed and ease with which information can be found is dramatic.
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Fülszöveg

THE NEW
COLLINS
CONCISE
ENGLISH
DICTIONARY
This important new dictionary is based on the authoritative COLLINS ENGLISH DICTIONARY. It contains over 1.6 million words of text and over 96,000 vocabulary references and provides an up-to-date survey of contemporary international English.
* The treatment is wide-ranging, systematic, and balanced, being based on methodical analyses of over 200 fields of knowledge and activity by expert consultants and specialist editors for CoUim English Dictionary. The material has been reassessed, edited, and where necessary supplemented with new vocabulary.
* Over 53,000 headwords (a higher percentage than in other dictionaries) ensure that compound words and derived words that have their own meanings are found where they belong - in their alphabetical place in their own right, not buried in long and complicated portmanteau entries. The improvement in the speed and ease with which information can be found is dramatic.
* Most important current meanings come first. Technical, rare, and older meanings are placed after the common current meanings.
* Numbered definitions and systematic use of field labels clearly mark off different areas of meaning and help to piide the user quickly to the meaning he is searching for. This is specially important in the long entries for common or complex words.
* Excellent coverage of today's science and technology distin^shes this dictionary from other general works. Special attention is paid to areas of particular relevance to contemporary life - electronics, computers, life sciences, etc.
* Full, precise pronunciations are provided in a transcription specially adapted from the International Phonetic Alphabet and approved by Professor A.C.Gimson of the Department of Phonetics, University College, London.
* Combining forms (prefixes and suffixes) are very fully treated, enabling the user to construct the meaning of himdreds of additional words.
* Etymologies give interesting insights into word origins and relationships and note the century of entry into English of imported words, where known.
* Usage Notes provide guidance on over 200 tricky points of grammar, syntax, or idiom.
* Examples in context clarify usage or shades of meaning where doubt or difficulty exists.
* Generous listing of irregular forms gives maximum help with spelling.
THE NEW COLLINS CONCISE ENGLISH DICTIONARY is ideal for all who need a dictionary that is compact in size, comprehensive in coverage, and modest in price.
THE NEW
COLLINS THESAURUS
"The New Collins Thesaurus is a masterpiece, substituting straightforward alphabetical arrangement for Roget's cumbersome concepl-plus-index and splendidly copious."
Kingsley Amis, The Observer Books of the Year
THE QUESTION: Who needs a thesaurus? THE ANSWER: Anyone who has ever been at a loss for the right word and has had to struggle to fmd the word that seemed to fit exactly.
In such situations The New Collins Thesaurus is exactly what is needed.
This Thesaurus provides over 275,000 alternatives for 16,000 main entry words, an average of 17 substitutes for every entry word. The entry words are arranged in simple alphabetical order: you look up the word you are starting from and there, in the one place, is a Üst of synonyms that can be used in place of it.
The Thesaurus enables its owner to avoid repeating the same words monotonously, to avoid the too obvious expression, to avoid clichés and vogue words, to recall the word that is *on the tip of one's tongue', and above all, to fmd the word that suits the tone of what you are writing.
Are you appealing to logic and reason or to emotion, to a sense of fair play, to loyalty, to antagonism or suspicions, to hopes, ambitions, or anger, to science or romance? For each of these the same idea might well be most effectively expressed by a different word. This Thesaurus helps you to make the right choice.
Its A-to-Z presentation makes it simple to use, its typography is clear and uncluttered, and the arrangement of the material straightforward and easy to follow.
The New Collins Thesaurus offers the maximum of help with the minimum of fuss. Vissza