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An introductory guide to OED ONLINE...

An introductory guide to OED ONLINE. An introductory guide to OED ONLINE. Unrivalled breadth and depth. Includes definitions of over 600,000 words Usage illustrated by over 2.5 million quotations Provides a unique historical record of the development of English over the last millennium

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An introductory guide to OED ONLINE...

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  1. An introductory guide to OED ONLINE... An introductory guide to OED ONLINE...

  2. Unrivalled breadth and depth • Includes definitions of over 600,000 words • Usage illustrated by over 2.5 million quotations • Provides a unique historical record of the development of English over the last millennium • Covers words and phrases from across the English-speaking world • Thebiggest dictionary of any language in the world - now online! www.oed.com

  3. Widely acclaimed • “The ultimate authority on the English language as well as a history of English speech and thought from its infancy to the present day” The Times • “The greatest continuing work of scholarship that this century has produced” Newsweek • “An essential acquisition for all libraries” Library Journal www.oed.com

  4. An enormous project • The updating of the OED is the world’s largest humanities research project • Editorial work alone costs OUP £3 million per year! • 80 in-house lexicographers, researchers and systems engineers working on the project • 200 specialist advisers • Numerous external contributors • At least 1000 new and revised definitions published online each year www.oed.com

  5. Type here to do a quick search for a word And then click here or press return nice

  6. Click on a result to go to the definition Results from a Find Word search for “NICE”

  7. Click here to see the entry without quotations The original meaning of NICE! Quotations from a wide range of sources illustrate meanings and show usage

  8. How many senses of NICE are there? Click on Entry Map to find out. Scroll though the entry to see how much NICE has changed in meaning over time! As the OED is a historical dictionary, the oldest meaning of each wordappears first.

  9. There are 20 different senses - use this list to navigate through the history of NICE The chronological coverage of the OED means that modern senses follow older meanings

  10. Click on the Date Chart button to see at a glance when each sense was in common usage Click on the List by Date button to see which other words entered English in 1300, the same year as NICE

  11. 115 different types of phobia… including Anglophobia! Type *phobia to find all words ending in phobia Select the number of results displayed per page here Wildcards can be used in all search boxes… * represents any number of missing letters (including 0) ? represents 1 missing letter

  12. 62 results are found To find all 6 letter words starting MIN, simply type min???

  13. Click here to find which other fields you can search Click Simple Search to open the full text search window Further search options are available from all webpages

  14. Type a word or phrase in the box to find it in the full text of the Dictionary, or in a selected area from the drop-down list

  15. Type URDU in the “Search for” box, select Language Names from the drop-down list, and click return to get a list. How many English words owe a debt to Urdu?

  16. Click here to search for one word or phrase in association with another Proximity searching

  17. …and here’s the word! Here’s how to find the term for beer mat collectors! It’s always a good idea to use an * at the end of each word as the definition could describe the activity as collector, collecting etc. Know the meaning but not the word?

  18. …and here’s the list Here’s how to find all quotations from Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice... Click here to move to Advanced Search

  19. Here’s how to find nouns – or other parts of speech Which nouns derive from Hindi, entered English since 1500, and relate to food? Here’s how to find out...

  20. …and here’s the list

  21. Words to do with music that have come into the language since 1980?

  22. …and here’s the list

  23. Take a crossword clue such as: “Which word describes a type of dance and a type of sauce?” Here’s how to find out...

  24. …and here’s the answer!

  25. Further information • Full details about the OED and OED Online are available at www.oed.com • A detailed tour is available at www.oed.com/public/tour • If you have any queries, please don’t hesitate to contact us at onlineproducts@oup.com www.oed.com

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