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This fifth edition of A Dictionary of Science, like its predecessors, aims to provide school and first-year university students with accurate explanations of any unfamiliar words they might come across in the course of their studies, in their own or adjacent disciplines. For example, students of the physical sciences will find all they are likely to need to know about the life sciences, and vice versa. The dictionary is also designed to provide non-scientists with a useful reference source to explain the scientific terms that they may encounter in their work or in their general reading.

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In this dictionary we include several different types of verbs that are used with adverbs or prepositions, (often called ‘particles’): idiomatic verb + particle combinations, verbs which are always followed by a particular particle, verbs that are followed by a particle in a particular meaning, verbs with a particle, where the particle adds to, but does not change, the basic meaning of the verb…

Краткое описание: This is the first dictionary entirely devoted to new words and meanings to have been published by the Oxford University Press. It follows in the tradition of the Supplement to the Oxford English Dictionary in attempting to record the history of some recent additions to the language, but, unlike the Supplement, it is necessarily very selective in the words, phrases, and meanings whose stories it sets out to tell and it stands as an independent work, unrelated (except in the resources it draws upon) to the Oxford English Dictionary…

Краткое описание: Vhat is a “quotation”? It is a saying or piece of writing that strikes people as so true or memorable that they quote it (or allude to it) in speech or writing. Often they will quote it directly, introducing it with a phrase like “As says” but equally often they will assume that the reader or listener already knows the quotation, and they will simply allude to it without mentioning its source (as in the headline “A rosé is a rosé is a rosé,” referring obliquely to a line by Gertrude Stein).

This dictionary has been compiled from extensive evidence of the quotations that are actually used in this way. The dictionary includes the commonest quotations which were found in a collection of more than 200,000 citations assembled by combing books, magazines, and newspapers.

Краткое описание: Словарь содержит около 28 000 иллюстраций отдельных предметов и их названия на английском языке, охватывает 384 темы из повседневной жизни, науки и техники, искусства, спорта, флоры и фауны и т.п. Словарь снабжен подробным индексом, облегчающим нахождение того или иного термина.
Предназначен для широкого круга читателей, изучающих английский язык на среднем и продвинутом этапах или работающих с английским языком.