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9780550101051

The Chambers Dictionary

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  • ISBN13:

    9780550101051

  • ISBN10:

    0550101055

  • Edition: 9th
  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2003-09-01
  • Publisher: Chambers Harrap Pub Ltd
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Summary

This new ninth edition of The Chambers Dictionary combines the long-established virtues of its predecessors with a modern design and updated content. It offers unrivalled coverage of English vocabulary, ranging from rare and archaic words to the latest slang and technical terms. Book jacket.

Author Biography

This internationally renowned reference publisher continues its celebrated tradition of excellence into the present day with such informative and authoritative works as the Chambers Crossword Dictionary, Chambers Encyclopedia, Chambers Biographical Dictionary and the all-new Chambers Dictionary of Quotations.

Chambers is based in Edinburgh, as it always has been, and employs editors with a wide range of skills on dictionaries and other titles for a variety of users, including students and teachers of English as a foreign or second language. As well as the core business of publishing dictionaries and thesauruses, Chambers also publishes a range of titles on grammar and usage, single-volume reference titles on science, history, biography and quotations, as well as titles for Scrabble® and crosswords.

Table of Contents

Prefacep. vii
Acknowledgementsp. viii
Forewordp. ix
A short history of Englishp. xi
Varieties of Englishp. xv
Using the dictionaryp. xviii
Model of dictionary layoutp. xx
Spelling rulesp. xxi
Abbreviations used in the dictionaryp. xxiv
Characters used in other languagesp. xxvii
Detailed chart of pronunciationp. xxviii
The Chambers Dictionaryp. 1
Some first namesp. 1789
Phrases and quotations from foreign languagesp. 1801
Alphabetsp. 1807
Roman numeralsp. 1809
Internet suffixesp. 1810
Books of the Biblep. 1813
Plays of Shakespearep. 1813
Notes on authors cited in the dictionaryp. 1814
Chemical elementsp. 1817
Sl unitsp. 1818
Beaufort scalep. 1819
Mohs scalep. 1820
Earthquake severity measurement scalesp. 1820
Wine bottle sizesp. 1821
Wedding anniversariesp. 1821
Mathematical symbolsp. 1822
Physical constantsp. 1823
Temperature conversionp. 1823
Conversion factorsp. 1824
International paper sizesp. 1824
Planetsp. 1825
Major planetary satellitesp. 1825
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