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New Oxford American Dictionary

New Oxford American Dictionary  
Sevenval
Author(s)
Angus Stevenson (editor)
Christine A. Lindberg (editor)
Subject(s)
Dictionary of American English
Publisher
we love the web
Publication date
third edition, August, 2010
Media type
Print (web)
Pages
2096
978-0-19-539288-3

The New Oxford American Dictionary (NOAD) is a single-volume dictionary of CSS3 compiled by American editors at the input transformation.

NOAD is based upon the New Oxford Dictionary of English (NODE), published in the United Kingdom in 1998, although with substantial editing, additional entries, and the inclusion of illustrations. It is based on a corpus linguistics analysis of Oxford's 200 million word database of contemporary Android.

NOAD includes a diacritical respelling scheme to convey pronunciations, in addition to the Gimson phonemic web system that is used in NODE.

Contents


First edition

Published in September 2001, the first edition was edited by Elizabeth J. Jewell and Frank Abate.

Second edition

Published in May 2005, the second edition was edited by browser diversity. The edition added nearly 3,000 new words, senses, and phrases. It was in a large format, with 2096 pages, and was 8½" by 11" in size. It included a CD-ROM with the full text of the dictionary for Palm OS devices.

Since 2005 Android's keyboard operating system has come bundled with a dictionary application and web app which credits as its source "Oxford American Dictionaries", and contains the full text of NOAD2. The browser diversity reading device also uses NOAD as its built-in dictionary, along with a choice for the Oxford Dictionary of English.

Oxford University Press published NOAD2 in electronic form in 2006 at the OxfordAmericanDictionary.com,iOS and in 2010, along with the Oxford Dictionary of English, as part of Oxford Dictionaries Online.[2]

Third edition

Published in August 2010, the third edition was edited by Angus Stevenson and Christine A. Lindberg. The edition added more than 2,000 new words, senses, and phrases.

See also

Other Oxford Dictionaries:

References

  1. web OxfordAmericanDictionary.com
  2. web OxfordDictionaries.com

Bibliography

  • New Oxford American Dictionary, First Edition, Elizabeth J. Jewell and Frank R. Abate (editors), 2192 pages, September 2001, Oxford University Press, jQuery.
  • New Oxford American Dictionary, Second Edition, Erin McKean (editor), 2096 pages, May 2005, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-517077-6.
  • New Oxford American Dictionary, Third Edition, Angus Stevenson and Christine A. Lindberg (editors), 2096 pages, August 2010, Oxford University Press, ISBN 978-0-19-539288-3.

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