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This presentation gives a brief description of Oxford Dictionaries Online
It tells you
• what Oxford Dictionaries Online is
• how it can help you
• how to look for information in it
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Oxford Dictionaries Online offers online access to up-todate, accurate, and authoritative modern English dictionary and thesaurus entries, along with first-rate language reference resources.
Oxford dictionaries and thesauruses are trusted the world over. This is because we invest in language research to ensure you have access to the latest new words and phrases and the most up-to-date definitions. www.oxforddictionaries.com
In addition to more than
350,000 modern English definitions and entries and
600,000 synonyms and antonyms,…
… the site provides access to a vast bank of over 1.9 million real English example sentences, selected from the
Oxford English Corpus.
It also features detailed practical writing and grammar advice for general users and an extensive section devoted to professional writers and editors.

There are lots of interesting features: spoken pronunciation with both British and American speakers, lists of synonyms and antonyms, the ability to search for phrases and idioms, a list of the top 1000 frequently used words, and the ability to see how a word behaves in a sentence using the extensive real examples.
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Although the home page has many options depending on what you want to do, looking up a word is perfectly simple.
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You can listen to the pronunciation of the word,…
…look through the definitions and phrases containing the word,…
…and even show more example sentences.

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Links on the page allow you to:…
…see the list of the top 1000 frequently used words,…

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Links on the page allow you to:…
Notice how the word has completely changed in meaning.
…see the full history of the word in the Oxford English
Dictionary ,…

Links on the page allow you to:…
To see the entries from the
Oxford English Dictionary and
Oxford Language Dictionaries
Online , you need subscriptions to these resources.
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…and see the word translated into other languages in Oxford
Language Dictionaries Online .

This demonstration shows just a small part of what you can do with Oxford Dictionaries Online.
If you want to find out more, you can
• click here for the full product tour
• visit the site
• read the FAQs
• look for a live online demo
• email us at onlinemarketing@oup.com
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