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1. Online Resources From Oxford University Press
2. This presentation gives a brief description of Oxford Dictionaries Online It tells you what Oxford Dictionaries Onlineis how it can help you how to look for information in it The presentation will take about 4 minutes
3. Oxford Dictionaries Online is freely available on the web where you can quickly search for definitions of words and phrases, idioms and get helpful suggestions for misspelled words. It also offers help with grammar, punctuation, and spelling as well as practical help with writing including sample letters. You can follow Oxford Dictionaries on twitter.
4. The free site also features a regularly updated blog, word games and puzzles, and competitions.
5. If you like the free site you may want more…
6. Oxford Dictionaries Prooffers online access to up-to-date, accurate, and authoritative modern English dictionary and thesaurus entries, along with first-rate language reference resources. In addition to more than 350,000 modern English definitions and entries and 600,000 synonyms and antonyms,… … the site provides access to a vast bank of over 2 million real English example sentences, selected from the Oxford English Corpus. Oxford dictionaries and thesauruses are trusted the world over. This is because we invest in language research to ensure you have access to the latest new words and phrases and the most up-to-date definitions. It also features detailed practical writing and grammar advice for general users and an extensive section devoted to professional writers and editors.
7. There are lots of interesting features: spoken pronunciation with both British and American speakers, lists of synonyms and antonyms, the ability to search for phrases and idioms, a list of the top 1000 frequently used words, and the ability to see how a word behaves in a sentence using the extensive real examples.
8. Although the home page has many options depending on what you want to do, looking up a word is perfectly simple. nice
9. You can listen to the pronunciation of the word,… …look through the definitions and phrases containing the word,… …and even show more example sentences.
10. Links on the page allow you to:… …see the list of the top 1000 frequently used words,…
11. Notice how the word has completely changed in meaning. …see the full history of the word in the Oxford English Dictionary,…
12. Links on the page allow you to:… To see the entries from the Oxford English Dictionary and Oxford Language Dictionaries Online, you need subscriptions to these resources. …and see the word translated into other languages in Oxford Language Dictionaries Online.
13. Further help This demonstration shows just a small part of what you can do with Oxford Dictionaries Pro. If you want to find out more, you can click here for the full product tour visit the site read the FAQs look for a live online demo email us at onlinemarketing@oup.com
14. You can see similar presentations on other Oxford University Press online resources in the Librarian Resource Centre www.oup.com/uk/academic/online/librarians
15. For further information about all online resources from Oxford, and to request institutional free trials and price quotations please contact your library supplier or Oxford University Press: Online Products, Oxford University Press Great Clarendon Street, Oxford, OX2 6DP onlineproducts@oup.com +44 (0) 1865 353705 +44 (0) 1865 353308