Tab Article

A major step forward in dictionary-making, The Cambridge International Dictionary of English (CIDE) provides today's intermediate and advanced ESL and EFL students with unrivaled access to the contemporary English they need. CIDE's innovative entries separate different senses of a word into different entries, clearly indicated by Guide Words, to make finding the right meaning almost effortless. Examples are labeled with clear, easy-to-understand codes that demonstrate all the important grammatical patterns of each word.

A controlled defining vocabulary of 2000 words means that definitions are immediately understandable, while examples based on the 100-million-word Cambridge Corpus offer a wealth of usage information drawn from real English. A truly international learner's dictionary, CIDE features full coverage of American, British, and Australian English. Formal, slang and literary terms are all clearly marked. The Cambridge International Dictionary of English also defines and exemplifies thousands of common English sayings and idioms, giving learners a clear insight into this complex and culturally loaded aspect of the language. The CIDE Phrase Index alphabetically lists each word and line on which the phrase is defined. And False Friend labels alert learners to English words that sound or look like a word in any of eleven other languages, but which have different meanings in English.

Accuracy and clarity are assured in more than 400 specialty and technical subject areas--from aerospace, business and computer technology to education, law, medicine, and music--which have been carefully checked by experts. With more than 100,000 entries arranged alphabetically under 50,000 headwords and over 100,000 examples showing usage and context, The Cambridge International Dictionary of English is the learner.

This CD-ROM gives you a complete 50,000-definition learner's dictionary and much, much.

Discover hundreds of new words which have come into English - words such as: GM, webmaster and FAQ.

• Listen to sound recordings (by native speakers of British English and American English) for every headword - check your pronunciation.

• Click on a word in your word processor and go straight to an on-screen definition - save time when you are working.

• This is the first learner's dictionary on CD-ROM to let you search by meaning. For example, you can find all the words that mean 'angry' or all words for different kinds of food.