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Topic: English Dictionary

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  English    Dictionary  
  English language    English Dictionary  
  Oxford English Dictionary    English French  
  English German Dictionary    French English Dictionary  
  Japanese English Dictionary    English German  
  English and Spanish    Spanish English Dictionary  

 
 
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The Brain has inferred the following facts from reading text collected on the topic:
Most admires:Che Guevara
Favorite possession(s):Dictionary
Bad point(s):Lazy
Personality:Philosophical
Dream job(s):Teacher
Favorite board game(s):Scrabble
Favorite food(s):Spanish
Favorite book(s):World Almanac
"American Spelling Book" by Noah Webster
The Bible
Interest(s):Latin,  French,  German
Starsign:Virgo
Favorite destination(s):Spain,  Japan
Favorite philosopher(s):Plato
Favorite quote(s):"This is the sort of English up with which I will not put." - Winston Churchill
 
 
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The Brain has selected interesting relevant sentences from the web. It automatically assigned them to some of our fictitious experts based on their personalities.


Borg Svemann,
Woodworker

Replacement dictionaries are available for all previously supported languages, plus new ones for Portuguese (for both Brazil and Portugal), Finnish, and English Legal and Medical terms.
Steve Riggins,
Software Deveoper

HPC Translate currently includes English and Spanish dictionaries and can be accessed from almost any Windows CE application that uses standard edit control.
Oxford English Dictionary project results in a search engine that can search any number of different user-defined document structures without loss of performance and fully supports SGML.
Having duplication can also create consistency problems when the same English term is coded with different grammatical tags in two different bilingual dictionaries.
Bori Gonbutoren,
Reindeer Herder

Early Modern English Dictionaries Database By combining full texts of early dictionaries written over 160 years by lexicographers with varying purposes, the Early Modern English Dictionaries Database (EMEDD) is a reference work for English of the Renaissance period.
Paddy McGuinness,
Newsagent

Detailed dictionaries of English, Welsh, Scottish, Irish, and German names are available in English and they'll give you a good start.
We are proud to announce a completely new set of four bilingual dictionaries - two are for Spanish-speaking learners of English and two for French-speaking learners of English.
Yes, boxty is an English word but most dictionaries, if they mention it at all, simply say that its origin is Irish without divulging the precise details.
Astrid Schuhmann,
Backpacker

The reason English pages are included in this section is that learner’s dictionaries, dictionaries for children and ones including Japanese language are intended mainly for Japanese-speaking people.
Arthur Dawkins,
Astro-physicist

The Oxford English Dictionary indicates that the phrase has been used for about 300 years to refer to measurements that are based on experience instead of exact science.
New site offering exciting alternatives to text books and dictionaries using activities such as English experiments in the Science lab and poem compositions in the music room.
The Oxford English Dictionary provides scholarly information on the evolution of the English language over the last millennium and on the meaning, history and pronunciation of words both past and present.
 
 
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