![]() * ‘Word of the day’ section to help expand your vocabulary every day * ‘Recent’ list to help you easily review looked-up words * ‘Favorites’ feature to create custom folders with lists of words from the extensive library 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. The third edition of the dictionary is expected to be available exclusively in electronic form the Chief Executive of Oxford University Press has stated that it is unlikely that it will ever be printed.Now that the rewriting and editing process has started, it was high time for new dictionary. The online version has been available since 2000, and by April 2014 was receiving over two million visits per month. The first electronic version of the dictionary was made available in 1988. Since 2000, compilation of a third edition of the dictionary has been underway, approximately half of which was complete by 2018. More supplements came over the years until 1989, when the second edition was published, comprising 21,728 pages in 20 volumes. ![]() In 1933, the title The Oxford English Dictionary fully replaced the former name in all occurrences in its reprinting as 12 volumes with a one-volume supplement. In 1895, the title The Oxford English Dictionary was first used unofficially on the covers of the series, and in 1928 the full dictionary was republished in 10 bound volumes. Work began on the dictionary in 1857, but it was only in 1884 that it began to be published in unbound fascicles as work continued on the project, under the name of A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles Founded Mainly on the Materials Collected by The Philological Society. ![]()
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