The home of trusted English dictionaries and thesauruses for everyday language use. The perfect word reference for daily use. Specially tailored to meet the needs of the user at home, school, or in the office, Collins English Dictionary and Thesaurus Essential offers all the words and alternatives you might need. Matching dictionary and thesaurus entries are shown together for easy reference, with synonyms clearly marked and matched with the pertinent sense of the word. Helpful example sentences provide context to understand words in actual use. With the built-in Search Index, you can use your e-reading app's search to jump to the desired entry, and the clear layout ensures you can quickly grasp the information you need.
A superb selection of synonyms in one concise volume. The essential tool for finding just the right word for every occasion, this reference features 175,000 synonyms, a simple A-to-Z format, example sentences and phrases, usage tips, frequently confused words, and other tools for writers.
Organized in a alphabetical format, a concise thesaurus lists more than ten thousand entries and more than 175,000 synonyms and offers sample sentences and phrases, usage tips, and a list of frequently confused words.
From the first name in reference comes this concise, easy-to-use thesaurus that contains more than 175,000 synonyms. This new edition features an A-to-Z format with example sentences and phrases, an exclusive Writer's Toolkit section, and much more. Original.
Many information professionals working in small units today fail to find the published tools for subject based organization that are appropriate to their local needs, whether they are archivists, special librarians, information officers, or knowledge or content managers. Large established standards for document description and organization are too unwieldy, unnecessarily detailed, or too expensive to install and maintain. In other cases the available systems are insufficient for a specialist environment, or don't bring things together in a helpful way. A purpose built, in-house system would seem to be the answer, but too often the skills necessary to create one are lacking. This practical text examines the criteria relevant to the selection of a subject management system, describes the characteristics of some common types of subject tool, and takes the novice step-by-step through the process of creating a system for a specialist environment. The methodology employed is a standard technique for the building of a thesaurus that incidentally creates a compatible classification or taxonomy, both of which may be used in a variety of ways for document or information management. Key areas covered are: What is a thesaurus? Tools for subject access and retrieval What a thesaurus is used for Why use a thesaurus? Examples of thesauri The structure of a thesaurus Thesaural relations Practical thesaurus construction The vocabulary of the thesaurus Building the systematic structure Conversion to alphabetic format Forms of entry in the thesaurus Maintaining the thesaurus Thesaurus software The wider environment. Readership: Although primarily aimed at the practising information professional, the book is also suitable for students of library and information science.
This new thesaurus gives the maximum choice of alternatives in the most helpful layout, making it ideal for everyday use in home, school and office. It also includes a special Wordpower supplement for added language help. This new thesaurus gives a wide choice of alternatives in a uniquely helpful layout. The key synonyms for each word are shown first and highlighted so they can be found instantly. Lists of opposites (antonyms) are also included at many entries to give another way of expressing yourself. The Wordpower supplement lists words by theme for additional vocabulary help.
Three books in one -- a combined dictionary and thesaurus, plus a uniquely helpful Language in Action supplement The Collins Essential Dictionary and Thesaurus is the latest addition to the new Essential range. It provides the user with three books in one, with matching dictionary and thesaurus entries on the same page for one-stop lookup, plus a highly practical Language in Action supplement.
The home of trusted English dictionaries and thesauruses for everyday language use. All the words you need, every day: the perfect word reference for daily use with 300,000 synonyms and antonyms in a durable format. With practical usage notes, and a fantastic supplement, this is the ideal thesaurus to take your language use and knowledge further. Specially tailored to meet the needs of the user at home, school, or in the office, this thesaurus has all the words and alternatives the user might need, as well as a huge choice of opposites. The clear, accessible layout makes it easy to use and ensures users can find the language they need when they need it. This edition also includes a 16-page crossword-solving supplement.
More than 200 alphabetically arranged entries give synonyms, definitions, and parts of speech, with example sentences for each synonym to distinguish shades of meaning.
