The Oxford American Desk Dictionary

by Abate, Frank

• ISBN13: 9780195126730
• ISBN10: 0195126734
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1998-09-03
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

Based on a database of American English compiled in the U.S., The Oxford American Desk Dictionary is completely up to date and designed for today's quick-reference needs. This superb dictionary also features more than 200 detailed illustrations (commissioned for this 1998 edition), helpful in-text Usage Notes, and hundreds of lively, informative Word Histories. Features: · More than 100,000 entries and definitions · New words and senses, some not found in any other dictionaries ( biodiversity, debit card, home page, SUV ) · Hundreds of in-text Usage Notes and Word Histories · Eye-catching, detailed illustrations, specially commissioned for this edition · Thousands of up-to-date biographical and geographical entries · Expanded 24-page Special Reference Section with Countries of the World, Signs and Symbols, Weights and Measures, U.S. States and Presidents As a concise, thorough, up-to-date, yet handy resource, this dictionary is unsurpassed.

Author Biography

Frank Abate is Editor in Chief of the U. S. Dictionaries Program of Oxford University Press, located in Connecticut.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. vii
How to Use the Oxford American Desk Dictionary	p. ix
Abbreviations Used in This Book	p. xi
Key to the Pronunciations	p. xvi
Oxford American Desk Dictionary	p. 1
Biographical Entries	p. 703
Geographical Entries	p. 737
Special Reference Sections
Standard Weights and Measures with Metric Equivalents	p. 776
Conversion from Standard to Metric Measurements	p. 777
Metric Weights and Measures with Standard Equivalents	p. 778
Conversion from Metric to Standard Measurements	p. 779
Signs and Symbols	p. 780
Temperature	p. 782
Heat Index	p. 783
Windchill Temperatures	p. 783
Mathematical Notation	p. 784
Multiplication Tables	p. 784
Arabic and Roman Numerals	p. 786
Greek Alphabet	p. 786
Books of the Bible	p. 787
Chemical Elements	p. 788
States of the United States of America	p. 790
Presidents of the United States of America	p. 792
Countries of the World	p. 793
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