Diccionario Oxford Compact

The coverage of essential English vocabulary and clear, accessible style make this revised edition of the 'Compact Oxford English Dictionary of Current English' ideal for general everyday use. This edition includes a wide selection of new words and phrases, together with extra advice on how to improve your writing.

The Oxford English Dictionary is the internationally recognized authority on the evolution of the English language from 1150 to the present day. The Dictionary defines over 500,000 words, making it an unsurpassed guide to the meaning, pronunciation, and history of the English language. This new upgrade version of The Oxford English Dictionary Second Edition on CD-ROM offers unparalleled access to the world's most important reference work for the English language. The text of this version has been augmented with the inclusion of the Oxford English Dictionary Additions Series (Volumes 1-3), published in 1993 and 1997, the Bibliography to the Second Edition, and other ancillary material. System requirements: PC with minimum 200 MHz Pentium-class processor; 32 MB RAM (64 MB recommended); 16-speed CD-ROM drive (32-speed recommended); Windows 95, 98, Me, NT, 200, or XP (Local administrator rights are required to install and open the OED for the first time on a PC running Windows NT 4 and to install and run the OED on Windows 2000 and XP); 1.1 GB hard disk space to run the OED from the CD-ROM and 1.7 GB to install the CD-ROM to the hard disk: SVGA monitor: 800 x 600 pixels: 16-bit (64k, high color) setting recommended. Please note: for the upgrade, installation requires the use of the OED CD-ROM v2.0.

This completely new edition of 'The Oxford Compact English Dictionary' is the ideal comprehensive and affordable hardback dictionary for office, study, and home use. It contains - * over 145,000 words, phrases, and definitions which provide comprehensive coverage of everyday English; * pronunciation help; * usage notes which give guidance on points of grammar, usage, and spelling; * helpful advice on word origins.

A compact, intermediate-level dictionary covering over 90,000 words and phrases, and 120,000 translations ideal for the home, office, or school.

Drawn from the highly acclaimed Oxford Spanish Dictionary, this new desk edition is more comprehensive, authoritative, and up to date than any other dictionary of comparable size, with over 80,000 words and 115,000 translations. Employing an extensive electronic database, The Oxford Spanish Desk Dictionary accurately reflects how both languages are spoken and written in all contexts, from literature to informal speech to technical and scientific publication. This edition offers: the fullest treatment of Latin-American Spanish; thematic boxes dealing with key areas such as age, time, countries, and sports; thousands of examples drawn from real speech and written sources; invaluable practical help, including sample letters, resumes, advertisements, job applications, and more. Compact and comprehensive, The Oxford Spanish Desk Dictionary is ideal for travelers, professionals, business people, and students of either language, from Kansas City to Caracas, and from Manchester to Madrid.

The Oxford Compact Dictionary, Thesaurus, and Wordpower Guide gives you three books in one. The dictionary section offers excellent coverage of everyday English, with over 120,000 words, phrases, and definitions, while the thesaurus has over 150,000 alternative words. Other features include straightforward guidance on grammar and usage in the shape of in-text boxes and thousands of example sentences illustrating words in use. The Wordpower Guide offers extra help to improve your vocabulary, and includes a section on foreign words and phrases, information on collective names for animals and birds, useful vocabulary for use in word games, lists of common confusables, a section on selecting the right word, and an extensive Wordbuilder section which gives instant links to related words.

The standard dictionary of the English language micrographically printed in one volume