New Oxford American Dictionary
By Handmark, Inc.
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Description
As Oxford's flagship American dictionary, the New Oxford American Dictionary sets the standard of excellence for lexicography in this country. With more than 350,000 words, phrases, and senses, and hundreds of explanatory notes, this dictionary provides the most comprehensive and accurate coverage of American English available.
The dictionary draws on the two-billion-word Oxford English Corpus and the unrivaled citation files of the world-renowned Oxford English Dictionary to provide the most accurate and richly descriptive picture of American English ever offered in any dictionary. The Third Edition offers a thoroughly updated text, with revisions throughout and approximately 2,000 new words, phrases, and meanings. Many new words relate to fast-moving areas such as computing, technology, current affairs, and ecology, while others have recently entered the popular lexicon. Usage notes have been updated in light of the most recent Corpus evidence, and a completely new in-text feature on Word Trends charts usage for rapidly changing words and phrases such as carbon, mobile, or tweet. In addition, the application has an attractive, modern new design that makes entries easier to read and find.
One of the hallmarks of the New Oxford American Dictionary is the way it reflects the living language. Unlike in more traditional dictionaries, where meanings are ordered chronologically according to the history of the language, each entry plainly shows the principal meaning or meanings of the word, organized by importance in today's English. Thus readers can be confident that the first definition they see is the one most likely to be used by people today, and is not a sense that has been obsolete for two centuries.
Offering clear, authoritative, and precise information, with the in-depth and up-to-date coverage that users need and expect, the New Oxford American Dictionary is the benchmark by which all other American dictionaries are measured.
Features
+ Over 60,000 audio pronunciations for dictionary entries
+ No wireless connection required (audio pronunciations require wireless connection)
+ Offers the most comprehensive, up-to-date coverage of current English
+ New "Word Trends" feature charts usage for rapidly changing words and phrases
+ Powered by Oxford's extensive language research program, including the 2-billion-word Oxford English Corpus
+ $29.99 represents a 50% discount from the $60 MSRP of the hardcover version
What's New in Version 2.0.2
Bug fixes and performance improvements
Customer Reviews
Excellent but lacking...
Plainly the best choice. Extremely comprehensive, with a clean and logical interface. Fast response time and very clear pronounciation. I thought is was worth every cent, until I realized it lacked a built in thesaurus. My mistake. However, at $30, I really feel it should be included! Spending another $25 would buy a companion thesaurus, but it would not be integrated and going back and forth between apps seems too much like a chore. The cheaper version has the thesaurus built in, but lacks the comprehensiveness and pronounciation funtion. What to do?...
Great Dictionary
This is the second very large and expensive dictionary app which I have purchased. The first was the American Heritage Fifth Edition. Although the Oxford American Dictionary is $5 more than the American Heritage, it's the clear dictionary of choice for me. Here's why:
1. Straight and easy download and purchase. I know it's hard to believe, but the American Heritage folks have come up with incredibly unclear instructions on the app page as to how to purchase their product. If you search for the American Heritage dictionary in the app store, more than likely you will be directed to its 4th edition, not the current, fifth edition, but the page will tell you to get the Fifth edition The app page will leave you clueless and you have to hunt to find the Fifth edition. When you get there, the page will say that the app is free but you have to buy it. When you do download it, it will take you to a very confusing interface and only when you hit a button with the price will you activate the gigantic app which has already downloaded. Then you'll discover it is not on all of your IOS 5 devices, but only on the IPad or IPhone to which you downloaded and paid for it. To use it on your other device, you need to fork over the money again.
2. With the Oxford Dictionary, you just buy it like any other app, and it downloads to all your devices. Instant major savings.
3. The content on the Oxford Dictionary is much more extensive. More explanatory definitions (I'm not talking about the number of words which are defined, just the content of the definitions), more use notes, and much, much more about the origin of the word.
4. Both have good pronunciation features which work if you are connected to the Internet.
5. Both are expensive apps, and get lots of criticism for that. To those who complain about the price, I say let's see you do it for less.
6. I have them both, and use both to look up words, but if you want the best choice which will end up on all your Apple IOS 5 devices, buy the Oxford without hesitation.
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- $29.99
- Category: Reference
- Updated: Oct 04, 2011
- Version: 2.0.2
- Size: 73.6 MB
- Language: English
- Seller: Handmark, Inc.
- © 2010 Handmark, Inc.
Requirements: Compatible with iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad.Requires iOS 3.2 or later
