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Oxford English Dictionary on CD-ROM, Macintosh
Oxford English Dictionary on CD-ROM Macintosh Author:Oxford University Press The Oxford English Dictionary (Second Edition) on Compact Disc provides unprecedented ways to fully explore the resources of the most authoritative dictionary of the English language, at less than a third of the price of the printed edition. Superb search-and-retrieval software, designed specifically for this electronic version by AND software,... more » enables you to investigate the Dictionary in ways not previously possible. Simple searches can be conducted from a variety of starting points--such as headword alone, headword filtered by part of speech or date, phrases, variant forms, pronunciation, Greek words, etymology, quotation (text, author, title), definition (text), and free-text searching for the occurrence of a word or words anywhere in the Dictionary. Complex searches are supported by a powerful yet flexible query language that was specifically designed for this edition of the Dictionary. Questions which might have taken years of patient research using the printed edition can now be answered in seconds. However you use the OED--for scholarly research, as a detailed reference work, or purely for enjoyment--the compact-disc edition will enable you to finally explore this marvelous resource at a depth which does justice to its encyclopedic potential.« less