Search results for “[Subject: dictionaries]”

• Author(s): Sarah Ogilvie • Publisher: Cambridge University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cambridge University Press • BISAC: English, Irish, Scottish, WelshHow did a single genre of text have the power to standardise the English language across ti...

• Author(s): R. M. W. Dixon • Publisher: Cambridge University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cambridge University Press • BISAC: Linguistics - Historical & ComparativeWhen we look up a word in a dictionary, we want to know not just its meaning bu...

• Author(s): Sidney Landau | Landau Sidney I. • Publisher: Cambridge University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cambridge University Press • BISAC: Library & Information Science - GeneralThis second edition of Sidney I. Landau's landmark work offe...

• Author(s): John Considine • Publisher: Cambridge University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cambridge University Press • BISAC: European - GeneralThis is the first unified history of the large, prestigious dictionaries of the seventeenth and eightee...

• Author(s): John Considine • Publisher: Cambridge University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cambridge University Press • BISAC: European - GeneralThis is the first unified history of the large, prestigious dictionaries of the seventeenth and eightee...

• Author(s): Keith Brown | Jim Miller • Publisher: Cambridge University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cambridge University Press • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralThe Cambridge Dictionary of Linguistics provides concise and clear definitions of all the ...

• Author(s): R. M. W. Dixon • Publisher: Cambridge University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cambridge University Press • BISAC: Linguistics - Historical & ComparativeWhen we look up a word in a dictionary, we want to know not just its meaning bu...

• Author(s): Ilan Stavans • Publisher: Cambridge University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cambridge University Press • BISAC: Linguistics - Historical & ComparativeHow did dictionaries come to be? When and how did they originate in a specific la...

• Author(s): Sidney Landau • Publisher: Cambridge University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cambridge University Press • BISAC: Library & Information Science - GeneralThis second edition of Sidney I. Landau's landmark work offers a comprehensive ...

• Author(s): Cambridge University Press • Publisher: Cambridge University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cambridge University Press • BISAC: English as a Second LanguageA small, low-level monolingual English dictionary for beginners and pre-intermedi...

• Author(s): Ilan Stavans • Publisher: Cambridge University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cambridge University Press • BISAC: Linguistics - Historical & ComparativeHow did dictionaries come to be? When and how did they originate in a specific la...

• Author(s): John Considine • Publisher: Cambridge University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cambridge University Press • BISAC: European - GeneralDictionaries tell stories of many kinds. The history of dictionaries, of how they were produced, publis...

• Author(s): Jack Lynch | Anne McDermott • Publisher: Cambridge University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cambridge University Press • BISAC: EssaysSamuel Johnson's Dictionary of the English Language, the first great English dictionary and one of the...

• Author(s): Thomas Wright • Publisher: Cambridge University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cambridge University Press • BISAC: GeneralThomas Wright (1810-77), a respected folklorist and medievalist, wrote prolifically on a wide range of subjects. Hi...

• Author(s): Thomas Wright • Publisher: Cambridge University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cambridge University Press • BISAC: GeneralThomas Wright (1810-77), a respected folklorist and medievalist, wrote prolifically on a wide range of subjects. Hi...

• Author(s): Bill Gunston • Publisher: Cambridge University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cambridge University Press • BISAC: Aeronautics & AstronauticsThe Cambridge Aerospace Dictionary is an authoritative and accessible reference useful to sch...

• Author(s): John Southward | Southward John • Publisher: Cambridge University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cambridge University Press • BISAC: PublishingThe son of a Liverpool-based printer, John Southward (1840-1902) was a prolific writer and edi...

• Author(s): John Considine • Publisher: Cambridge University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cambridge University Press • BISAC: European - GeneralDictionaries tell stories of many kinds. The history of dictionaries, of how they were produced, publis...

• Author(s): Cambridge University Press • Publisher: Macmillan • Publisher Imprint: Farrar St • Subject: Encyclopaedias and References • BISAC: Reference - GeneralThe Cambridge Business English Dictionary is ideal for business English students, b...

• Author(s): R. J. Lincoln | G. A. Boxshall | Roberta Smith • Publisher: Cambridge University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cambridge University Press • BISAC: Life Sciences - BiologyThis concise dictionary of organisms and their ecology contains ov...

• Author(s): Ebenezer Cobham Brewer • Publisher: Cambridge University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cambridge University Press • BISAC: GeneralFirst published in 1870, this 'museum of literary odds and ends' was condensed from material in a manuscri...

• Author(s): Cindy Leaney • Publisher: Cambridge University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cambridge University Press • BISAC: English as a Second LanguageDictionary Activities is a fantastic teaching resource which explains dictionary features and h...

• Author(s): William Marsden • Publisher: Cambridge University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cambridge University Press • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralBorn in Ireland, William Marsden (1754-1836) was a pioneer in the study of oriental languages, in p...

• Author(s): B. S. Everitt | A. Skrondal • Publisher: Cambridge University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cambridge University Press • BISAC: Probability & Statistics - GeneralIf you work with data and need easy access to clear, reliable definiti...

• Author(s): Chris Cook | John Stevenson • Publisher: Cambridge University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cambridge University Press • BISAC: Europe - GeneralIn a world where we take for granted the ability to communicate instantly across vast distan...

• Author(s): John Algeo • Publisher: Cambridge University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cambridge University Press • BISAC: DictionariesAmerican Speech, the journal of the American Dialect Society has for fifty years included a regular collection of...

• Author(s): Paul Heacock • Publisher: Cambridge University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cambridge University Press • BISAC: English as a Second LanguageThe most complete and authoritative idioms dictionary available, the Cambridge Dictionary of Am...

• Author(s): Manfred Markus • Publisher: Cambridge University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cambridge University Press • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralJoseph Wright's English Dialect Dictionary (1898-1905) is the most comprehensive English dialect dic...

• Author(s): Mark Williamson • Publisher: Cambridge University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cambridge University Press • BISAC: Aeronautics & AstronauticsThe Cambridge Dictionary of Space Technology is a comprehensive source of reference on the...

• Author(s): Mark Williamson • Publisher: Cambridge University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cambridge University Press • BISAC: Astronomy - GeneralThe Cambridge Dictionary of Space Technology is a comprehensive source of reference on the most impor...

• Author(s): Georg Autenrieth | Robert P. Keep • Publisher: Cambridge University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cambridge University Press • BISAC: GeneralThe dialect of ancient Greek in which the Homeric epics the Iliad and the Odyssey were composed...

• Author(s): Morton Benson | Biljana Sljivic-Simsic • Publisher: Cambridge University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cambridge University Press • BISAC: Russian & Former Soviet UnionThis is a comprehensive and up-to-date dictionary providing Engl...

• Author(s): Alan Hindley | Frederick W. Langley | Brian J. Levy • Publisher: Cambridge University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cambridge University Press • BISAC: Multi-Language DictionariesThis is the first Old French-English dictionary of its ki...

• Author(s): Richard Yeo • Publisher: Cambridge University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cambridge University Press • BISAC: History & Theory - GeneralThe eighteenth-century English dictionaries of arts and sciences claimed to contain all knowle...

• Author(s): F. G. Cassidy | R. B. Le Page | R. B. Le Page • Publisher: Cambridge University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cambridge University Press • BISAC: GeneralThis is the second edition of the authoritative Dictionary of Jamaican English, fir...

• Author(s): Alan C. Dessen | Leslie Thomson • Publisher: Cambridge University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cambridge University Press • BISAC: Theater - Stagecraft & ScenographyThis dictionary, the first of its kind, defines and explains over ...