Description & Features

With fast and powerful searching across all components, this CD-ROM offers an unrivalled guide to the English language today. Much more than just an electronic dictionary, it contains:

• Complete 4th edition of the Collins COBUILD English Dictionary for Advanced Learners including: 2,000 new words that have come into use more examples improved coverage of American English updated definitions to make them simpler and provide a clearer understanding.
• Collins COBUILD Guide to English Usage - rapid access to additional information on how to use the word
• Collins COBUILD English Grammar - for a full explanation of English Grammar terms
• Fast reference to the grammar symbols in the help file ¿ simple, easy-to-understand definitions for the grammar symbols so you can fully understand how the word is used
• Quickly retrieve examples of the use of words in real English text, written and spoken from the Word Bank of 5 million words of authentic text samples
• Thesaurus containing over 130,000 synonyms
• Over 70,000 high quality audio pronunciations of headwords, phrases, derived words, and inflected forms
• Record and playback feature so users can compare their own pronunciation with the high quality recording on the CD-ROM
• Full text search over all the contents of this comprehensive CD-ROM
• One-click hyperlinking so the user can link quickly and easily move between the dictionary, grammar, usage, thesaurus, and Word Bank
• Full installation to the hard drive option for fast and easy reference without using the CD