The Oxford English Dictionary is the internationally recognized authority on the English Language, defining more than 500,000 words and tracing their usage through 2.5 million quotations from a wide range of literary and other sources
Oxford English Dictionary on CD ROM 4.0 available on July 09 2022 from BiggerBooks for 281.23
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The text on the CD-ROM comprises the full text of the OED 2nd Edition, plus the three Additions volumes, as well as 7,000 new entries from the OED''s continuing research. Most importantly, OED v4.0 on CD-ROM boasts superb search-and-retrieval software, designed specifically for the electronic version, enabling you to investigate the Dictionary in ways not possible with the print edition. Questions which might have taken years of patient research can now be answered in seconds. Existing functionality retained from earlier versions includes: * Installation to the hard drive, so the CD is not required during use of the Dictionary; * Options to customize the entry display and show or hide pronunciations, spellings, etymology, and quotation text; * Flexible full text search options, with search filters and an option to rank entries and search results alphabetically or by date. New to this version: * Now available to Mac users; * Flash-base; * Smoother and faster performance providing instantaneous search results; * New word-wheel which supports incremental letter-by-letter browsing; * 7,000 new words and meanings; System Requirements Windows: Intel Pentium 4 1.6GHz processor or equivalent (2GHz recommended); Microsoft Windows Vista, Windows XP, Windows ServerTM 2003, Windows 2000. Macintosh: Power PC G4 867MHz or faster processor; Intel CoreTM Duo 2.13GHz or faster processor; Mac OS X v.10.4x or 10.5x. All platforms: 512MB of RAM; 1Gb free hard disk space; minimum monitor capability: 1024 x 768 pixels and high colour (16 bits per pixel, ie 65,536 colours); local CD-ROM/DVD drive (for installation); runs from hard drive only.
If you love words, there is no equal At least Oxford University Press keeps trying. This is the 4th electronic version of the venerable Oxford English Dictionary. Each of the earlier versions had problems galore that Oxford was very lax in resolving or sometimes even admitting. Among the many small cruelties, you had to reinsert the data disk every 90 days. Or the failure to adapt to Windows Vista. Ah, well, if you want all those words at your fingertips, such suffering is a price to be paid. Happily, 4.0 s..
A software interface to the Oxford English Dictionary has enormous potential, which is only partially realized in this version.Rudimentary searching is available. Which only makes me wish for more: a search pattern language for example.Simple wildcard searches -- that match any number of characters ("*"), or match single characters ("?") are available; but you can't, for example, straightforwardly find all words with 5 letters or less that end in "ish"? ( An "*ish" (dictionary find) search will return 3..
There have been many reviews of the literary content of the OED, this review doesn't approach that subject, rather as this is a software product my review discusses the technical implementation and the updates since the previous 3.1 release of this software.Version 4.0 is the first version of the OED CD-ROM that supports the Macintosh operating system, having previously been available as a Windows application only. This review is written from the perspective of a Macintosh owner.This release as stated on th..