... Ernest Gowers, Oxford, 1965) NEB TheNewEnglish Bible (Oxford and Cambridge, 1970) ODWE TheOxfordDictionary for Writers and Editors (Oxford, 1981) OED TheOxfordEnglishDictionary (Oxford, 1933) ... disagreement. The proper aim of a usage guide is to resolve these problems, rather than describe the whole of current usage. TheOxford Guide to English Usage has this aim. Within the limits just ... the use of long series of hyphened words. 6. A group ofwords that has been turned into a syntactic unit, often behaving as a different part of speech from thewordsof which it is composed,...
... the utility of the Longman Dictionaryof Contemporary EnglgsA as a suitable source dictionary for the target lexicon. 1 Introduction Within the larger framework ofthe Alvey Programme of ... 2 The target lexicon Given the goal ofthe toolkit projects to provide a led- con capable of supporting morphological and syntactic analysis of English, there is a precise definition ofthe ... ~oelieve = . The values of PLU and PER are predictable on the basis ofthe word grammar rules and need not be independently specified for each entry. On the other hand, the values of SUBCAT...
... dictionary. 1 Introduction The goal ofthe project is to enhance the database of the Oxford DictionaryofEnglish (a forthcoming new edition ofthe 1998 New OxfordDictionaryof English) so that it ... Press,Cambridge, Mass.Judy Pearsall. 1998. The NewOxfordDictionaryof English. Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK.126matic analysis and grading of defmitions is provinghighly productive ... predicated on the original dictionary content, and not the other wayround. There has been no attempt to alter the origi-nal content in order to facilitate the generation of formal data. The enhanced...
... languages they speak will therefore be one of the major themes of this chapter, which will focus on the pre-history of English and the various developments which underpin the creation of English as ... in the past tense forms of a group of strong verbs, of whatis known as reduplication; that is, the addition at the beginning of a word of asyllable consisting ofthe initial consonant ofthe ... forms ofEnglish that the migrants took with them varied considerably according to such factors as the part of Britain from which they came, their social class, their age, and the date at whichthey...
... weather in the center of the storm. The narrator of a documentary filmsaid, “At the eye ofthe hurricane, the wind can exceed 200 miles an hour.” He,or the writer, was wrong. In the eye,“winds diminish ... the farthest from the Sun.” Furthest is mostfar in a figurative sense: Ofthe paint-ings on display, those by Dalí are the fur-thest from reality.”Those cool to the idea of distinguish-ing the ... carried the headline “I can’tget no interaction.” Perhaps the writer of the headline knew better and was try-ing to achieve some kind of effect, be-sides the effect of making the newspaperseem...
... Went is the past tense of the verb go. The past participle of go is gone.Therefore a correction ofthe first exam-ple is either The drug activity wentdown . . .” (in the past tense) or The drug ... defaced.” The form is the same; it isactive, yet the meaning is passive. The subjects do not cause the action; it isthrust upon them. The passive use ofthe verb have is not new; it is found in the ... the various other theoriesconcerning the alphabet are the hy-potheses that the alphabet wasbrought by the Philistines from Creteto Palestine, that the various ancientscripts ofthe Mediterranean...
... similar.Among the items kept there are the diary of Nazi propaganda chiefJoseph Goebels, an X-ray of AdolphHitler’s skull and the first edition of Pravda, the newspaper ofthe SovietCommunist Party. The ... figuremidway in a set of figures arranged in or-der of size. In the set of three just above, the median is 36. (When the number of items is even, the median is the mean of the two figures in the middle.) ... is the sum of a set of figures di-vided by the number of figures in the set. The definitions coincide only for a set of two figures. The mean of 56, 36, and34 is 42.A statistical term in which the...
... during the impact that knocked the meteorite off of Mars.” Off Mars. The four extracts below from newspa-pers all contain the same error: “Mar-tinez’s car hit the rear of one car, glancedoff of ... suit in the news is to ask for absurdly exorbi-tant damages. The amount ofthe suitwill appear in the opening sentence of the story—each ofthe sample sentencesbelow—and often in the headline ... .”Change “off of to from. (And insert acomma after “Bruno.” As for the capitalT in The, ” not the writer but a quirk of his newspaper was to blame.)OFF and ON. See GO OFF and GOON.“OLDEST PROFESSION.”...
... to the surface of another withoutabsorption. An example is adsorption of water to the surface of a dielectric. This term is often con-fused with ABSORPTION because the spellings of the two words ... determina-tion of current of large dimension, or ofthe size of the ampere.ampere-hour Abbreviations: Ah, amp-hr. The quantity of electricity that passes through a cir-cuit in one hour when the rate of ... PRODUCT.alpha decay The decay of a substance in which the nuclei ofthe atoms emit alpha particles, resultingin a change ofthe atomic number and atomicweight ofthe substance over a period of time.alphanumeric...