LEARNING TOOLS – engaging features that help you further enhance your vocabulary: * Camera search looks up words in the camera viewfinder and displays results * An automatic ‘Fuzzy filter’ to correct word spelling, as well as ‘Wild card’ (‘*’ or ‘?’) to replace a letter or entire parts of a word * Keyword lookup allows you to search within compound words and phrases * Search autocomplete helps find words quickly by displaying predictions as you type The integrated search tools activate automatically the moment you start typing: SEARCH TOOLS – effortlessly find words using a clear, functional, and easy-to-use interface. This is a mobile dictionary with content from Oxford University Press and advanced search and language tools that have become the staple of quality language apps from MobiSystems. It has been fully updated with 2,500 new words and meanings based on ongoing research at Oxford Dictionaries and the Oxford English Corpus. With new coverage of global English, as well as slang, dialect, technical, historical, and literary terms, and rare and obsolete words, the Sixth Edition of the Shorter Oxford English Dictionary contains more than 600,000 words, phrases, and definitions, with coverage of language from the entire English-speaking world, from North America and the UK to South Africa, Australia and New Zealand, and the Caribbean. The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary contains an incredible one-third of the coverage of the 20-volume Oxford English Dictionary and includes all words in current English from 1700 to the present day, plus the vocabulary of Shakespeare, the Bible and other major works in English from before 1700. Here’s the online blurb from the Apple App Store: Description I wonder why Oxford couldn’t do it in house? It must be licensed out to WordWebSoftware, who put it together and copyrighted the software part of it in 2011. This is the sixth edition, version 2.4, Oxford copyright 2007, updated February 28, 2015. The app was downloaded from the Apple app store for $28.99 CAD. It has: the search led to the Shorter Oxford English Dictionary. I was hoping that in the 2010s that has changed. In the 90s and even 2000s the reference dictionaries were always physical. I thought about getting a physical dictionary, but if a suitable app could be found, that would be preferable. As the stock dictionary is The New Oxford American Dictionary and I use British spellings, I was also looking for a specifically British dictionary. Hyphenation is like a double-breasted suit: out of fashion. Hyphenation is rapidly evolving: it’s no longer ice-cream but ice cream. I also wanted a reference dictionary to keep spellings and hyphenations consistent. The dictionary that came with the laptop (MacBook Pro running OS 10.10.5) is good, but I wanted another one for a second opinion. Also new to this edition is a never-before-published, introductory essay by language commentator David Crystal on the History of English providing stimulating insight into the development of the English language.Now that the rewriting and editing process has started, it was high time for new dictionary. Some of the new words included in this edition are Afrobeat, carbon-neutral, darknet, heaviosity, impactful, knuckle-dragger, nanomaterial, retro-futurist, smoosh, testosteronic, webinar, and thousands more. Now with 2,500 new words and meanings based on the ongoing research program of Oxford Dictionaries and the Oxford English Corpus, the Shorter is fresher than ever. The Shorter offers a historical and literary approach made famous by the OED, which no competitor can match. Each entry identifies a word's various meanings, origins, part of speech, pronunciation, and presents combinations in which the word is often found as well as cross-references to related words. It offers over 500,000 definitions covering virtually every word or phrase in use in the English language-worldwide-since 1700. No other dictionary comes close to the Shorter's range and depth. At a fraction of the price, the Shorter offers much of the same content, and provides the same quality of lexical excellence as its parent dictionary. If the 20-volume Oxford English Dictionary is the mother of all dictionaries, the Shorter is its most accomplished offspring. The sixth edition of the Shorter Oxford English Dictionary is updated, enlarged and enlivened with new words, new definitions, revised illustrative quotations-and a fully customizable CD-ROM.
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