... Ernest Gowers, Oxford, 1965)
NEB TheNewEnglish Bible (Oxford and Cambridge, 1970)
ODWE TheOxfordDictionary for Writers and Editors (Oxford, 1981)
OED TheOxfordEnglishDictionary (Oxford, 1933) ... disagreement. The proper aim of a usage guide is to resolve
these problems, rather than describe the whole of current usage.
TheOxford Guide to English Usage has this aim. Within the limits just
... the use of long series of hyphened words.
6. A group ofwords that has been turned into a syntactic unit, often
behaving as a different part of speech from thewordsof which it is
composed,...
... to the surface of another without
absorption. An example is adsorption of water to
the surface of a dielectric. This term is often con-
fused with ABSORPTION because the spellings of
the two words ... determina-
tion of current of large dimension, or ofthe size of
the ampere.
ampere-hour Abbreviations: Ah, amp-hr. The
quantity of electricity that passes through a cir-
cuit in one hour when the rate of ... type of
radar, the sync delay introduced between trans-
mission ofthe pulse and start ofthe trace on the
indicator screen to eliminate the altitude circle in
the display.
ALU Abbreviation of...
... energy, on account
of the motion ofthe source and/or the detecting
apparatus. 3. A small displacement in the appar-
ent positions ofthe stars from month to month on
account ofthe earth’s orbital ... modifying
only the address part of an instruction.
address field In a computer, the part ofthe in-
struction that gives the address of a bit of data (or
a word) in the memory.
address generation The programmed ... electrical
action ofthe cell, as distinguished from the sup-
porting material ofthe plates themselves. 2. A ra-
dioactive substance. 3. The phosphor coating of a
cathode-ray tube screen. 4. The material...
... identifying the pos-
itive or negative semantic orientation of for-
eign words. Identifying the semantic orienta-
tion ofwords has numerous applications in the
areas of text classification, analysis of ... bootstrap from words
with known polarity to words with unknown polar-
ity. They assign any given word the label of its syn-
onyms or the opposite label of its antonyms if any of
them are known.
Kanayama ... polarity,
hits
w,pos
is the number of hits returned by a com-
mercial search engine when the search query is the
given word and the disjunction of all positive seed
words. hits
pos
is the number of hits when...
... the utility
of the
Longman Dictionaryof Contemporary EnglgsA as
a suitable source dictionary for the target lexicon.
1 Introduction
Within the larger framework ofthe Alvey Programme
of ...
2
The target lexicon
Given the goal ofthe toolkit projects to provide a led-
con capable of supporting morphological and syntactic
analysis of English, there is a precise definition ofthe ... ~oelieve = . The values
of PLU and PER are predictable on the basis ofthe
word grammar rules and need not be independently
specified for each entry. On the other hand, the values
of SUBCAT...
... dictionary.
1 Introduction
The goal ofthe project is to enhance the database
of the
Oxford DictionaryofEnglish
(a forthcoming
new edition ofthe 1998
New OxfordDictionaryof
English)
so that it ... Press,
Cambridge, Mass.
Judy Pearsall. 1998.
The NewOxfordDictionaryof
English.
Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK.
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matic analysis and grading of defmitions is proving
highly productive ... predicated on the
original dictionary content, and not the other way
round. There has been no attempt to alter the origi-
nal content in order to facilitate the generation of
formal data. The enhanced...
... languages they speak will therefore be one of
the major themes of this chapter, which will focus on the pre-history of
English and the various developments which underpin the creation of English
as ... in the past tense forms of a group of strong verbs, of what
is known as reduplication; that is, the addition at the beginning of a word of a
syllable consisting ofthe initial consonant ofthe ... forms ofEnglish that the
migrants took with them varied considerably according to such factors as the part
of Britain from which they came, their social class, their age, and the date at which
they...
... weather in the center of
the storm.
The narrator of a documentary film
said, “At the eye ofthe hurricane, the
wind can exceed 200 miles an hour.” He,
or the writer, was wrong. In the eye,
“winds diminish ... the
farthest from the Sun.” Furthest is most
far in a figurative sense: Ofthe paint-
ings on display, those by Dalí are the fur-
thest from reality.”
Those cool to the idea of distinguish-
ing the ... carried the headline “I can’t
get no interaction.” Perhaps the writer
of the headline knew better and was try-
ing to achieve some kind of effect, be-
sides the effect of making the newspaper
seem...
... Went is the past tense of the
verb go. The past participle of go is gone.
Therefore a correction ofthe first exam-
ple is either The drug activity went
down . . .” (in the past tense) or The
drug ... defaced.” The form is the same; it is
active, yet the meaning is passive. The
subjects do not cause the action; it is
thrust upon them.
The passive use ofthe verb have is not
new; it is found in the ... the various other theories
concerning the alphabet are the hy-
potheses that the alphabet was
brought by the Philistines from Crete
to Palestine, that the various ancient
scripts ofthe Mediterranean...
... similar.
Among the items kept there are the
diary of Nazi propaganda chief
Joseph Goebels, an X-ray of Adolph
Hitler’s skull and the first edition of
Pravda, the newspaper ofthe Soviet
Communist Party.
The ... figure
midway in a set of figures arranged in or-
der of size. In the set of three just above,
the median is 36. (When the number of
items is even, the median is the mean of
the two figures in the middle.) ... is the sum of a set of figures di-
vided by the number of figures in the set.
The definitions coincide only for a set
of two figures. The mean of 56, 36, and
34 is 42.
A statistical term in which the...