Concise Oxford Dictionary - Tapa dura

This is the revised tenth edition of the Concise Oxford Dictionary, published together with a fully up-dated text of the dictionary on CD-ROM. The dictionary offers comprehensive coverage of the current vocabulary of English, with more than 240,000 words, phrases, and definitions. The revised tenth edition includes many additions to the language, covering areas as diverse as e-commerce, technology, and fashion. In addition to up-to-date text, the book offers an extensive set of appendices covering everything from countries of the world and US presidents to proofreading marks and a text messaging glossary. In addition, there is a ten-section "Guide to Good English" which provides the information you need to be able to write and speak English confidently and correctly. The CD-ROM includes the complete revised edition of the A-Z text, which you are able to install on your hard drive for maximum accessibility. Functions include quick headword search and browsable headword index, together with a full text search enabling more in-depth look-up using wild cards and Boolean operations.