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Oxford English Dictionary

Definition: Oxford English Dictionary

Oxford English Dictionary

Noun

1. An unabridged dictionary constructed on historical principles.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 


Synonyms: Oxford English Dictionary

Synonyms: O.E.D. (n), OED (n). (additional references)
Synonym by domain: oed (language).

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Crosswords: Oxford English Dictionary

English words defined with "Oxford English Dictionary": Craigie ♦ James Augustus Henry Murray, James Augustus Murray, James Murray ♦ Murray ♦ Sir James Augustus Henry Murray, Sir James Augustus Murray, Sir James Murray, Sir William Alexander Craigie ♦ William A. Craigie. (references)

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Commercial Usage: Oxford English Dictionary

DomainTitle

Books

  • The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of The Oxford English Dictionary (reference)

  • Shorter Oxford English Dictionary (reference)

  • The New Shorter Oxford English Dictionary (2 Vol. Set; Thumb Indexed Edition) (reference)

    (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Oxford English Dictionary

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

oxford english dictionary

865

oxford english dictionary online

46

shorter oxford english dictionary

6
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Oxford English Dictionary


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

4F 78 66 6F 72 64      45 6E 67 6C 69 73 68      44 69 63 74 69 6F 6E 61 72 79

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

        

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01001111 01111000 01100110 01101111 01110010 01100100 00100000 01000101 01101110 01100111 01101100 01101001 01110011 01101000 00100000 01000100 01101001 01100011 01110100 01101001 01101111 01101110 01100001 01110010 01111001

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#79 &#120 &#102 &#111 &#114 &#100 &#32 &#69 &#110 &#103 &#108 &#105 &#115 &#104 &#32 &#68 &#105 &#99 &#116 &#105 &#111 &#110 &#97 &#114 &#121

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

004F 0078 0066 006F 0072 0064      0045 006E 0067 006C 0069 0073 0068      0044 0069 0063 0074 0069 006F 006E 0061 0072 0079

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

499072818470239807378758574238756986758180678491

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Commercial 		5. Expressions: Internet
6. Orthography
7. Bibliography


  

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