Download or read book The Macquarie Thesaurus written by and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 1179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A thesaurus can be a quick way to find a forgotten word, or a leisurely way to explore a language. We hope both paths are well provided for in this book" (Richard Tardif, Editor)Macquarie Thesaurus is the first thesaurus ever written to be based on the distinctly Australian use of English. This new edition has been totally reworked from the database of the highly-respected Macquarie Dictionary and updated from its store of new words.It therefore contains a wide range of contemporary words, both general and technical, as well as many phrases and colloquialisms. In the technical domain there are items such as digital watermark, extraordinary rendition, bioregion, narcodollar and webinar. Colloquialisms include emo, ubersexual, tottymungous and booty call. Phrases abound so, for example, a foolish person can be described as mad as a two-bob watch, silly as a wet hen, or nutty as a fruitcake. Traditional Australian words such as digger and churinga are included, but there are also newer creations such as baby bonus, barbecue stopper and Australian values. Aboriginal English is represented also with such general items as smoking ceremony, Aboriginal customary law, booliman (policeman), and yandi (marijuana), and informal terms such as cheeky (unpredictable and dangerous), deadly (excellent), sulky (angry) and flash (brazen).
Download or read book A First Thesaurus written by Harriet Wittels and published by Golden Books. This book was released on 1985 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This comprehensive thesaurus is a handy reference filled with synonyms and antonyms to help young readers find the right words to express their ideas. The large print makes A FIRST THESAURUS an enjoyable way for any child to expand their vocabulary and discover the richness of language.
Download or read book Macquarie Compact Dictionary written by Macquarie Dictionary and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2017-04-26 with total page 73 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new edition of the Macquarie Compact Dictionary provides an up-to-date and essential reference for the most common words and phrases used in Australian English. The Macquarie Compact Dictionary includes: · more than 53,000 words and phrases · more than 85,000 definitions · up-to-date entries such as agender, bariatrics, dox, freecycle, listicle, normcore, vamping · idiomatic phrases · etymologies · illustrative phrases showing how a word is used in context · pronunciations in the International Phonetic Alphabet
Download or read book More Than Words The Making of the Macquarie Dictionary written by Pat Manser and published by Macquarie. This book was released on 2021-02-23 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'The Editorial Committee of the dictionary of Australian English, led by Arthur Delbridge, were adamant that their dictionary was to be descriptive. It was an important point of difference from traditional dictionary policy. This dictionary would give an account of Australian English as it was heard and written. We wanted it all: spoken, written, technical, polite, rude. The speech of labourers, the jargon of merchants, swearwords, Australianisms, as well as the basic core of English vocabulary.' The idea for a dictionary of Australian English was conceived in the 1960s, but it wasn't until 1981 that the first edition of the Macquarie Dictionary was published. More Than Words tells the story of how the dictionary was brought to life during this period -- from identifying the need for a genuinely Australian dictionary to the long road towards publication -- and explores how the dictionary has evolved over the years since then.
Download or read book Macquarie Pocket Dictionary 5E written by Macquarie and published by . This book was released on 2019-10-18 with total page 1400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book My First Macquarie Thesaurus written by and published by Jacaranda. This book was released on 1988 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: My First Macquarie Thesaurus presents over 130 word groups with humorous illustrations.Each keyword is presented in large coloured type to emphasise its connection with similar words. Simple descriptions or definitions of related words are offered as well as sentences that show correct word use.
Download or read book Explorations in Automatic Thesaurus Discovery written by Gregory Grefenstette and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explorations in Automatic Thesaurus Discovery presents an automated method for creating a first-draft thesaurus from raw text. It describes natural processing steps of tokenization, surface syntactic analysis, and syntactic attribute extraction. From these attributes, word and term similarity is calculated and a thesaurus is created showing important common terms and their relation to each other, common verb--noun pairings, common expressions, and word family members. The techniques are tested on twenty different corpora ranging from baseball newsgroups, assassination archives, medical X-ray reports, abstracts on AIDS, to encyclopedia articles on animals, even on the text of the book itself. The corpora range from 40,000 to 6 million characters of text, and results are presented for each in the Appendix. The methods described in the book have undergone extensive evaluation. Their time and space complexity are shown to be modest. The results are shown to converge to a stable state as the corpus grows. The similarities calculated are compared to those produced by psychological testing. A method of evaluation using Artificial Synonyms is tested. Gold Standards evaluation show that techniques significantly outperform non-linguistic-based techniques for the most important words in corpora. Explorations in Automatic Thesaurus Discovery includes applications to the fields of information retrieval using established testbeds, existing thesaural enrichment, semantic analysis. Also included are applications showing how to create, implement, and test a first-draft thesaurus.
Download or read book Primary Grammar and Word Study written by and published by R.I.C. Publications. This book was released on 2008 with total page 95 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Designed to introduce students to parts of speech, ways to understand and choose words, punctuation and figure of speech.
Download or read book Macquarie Primary Dictionary written by Macquarie and published by Jacaranda. This book was released on 2010 with total page 737 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This dictionary is an essential tool in the Australian primary classroom. It regular use will encourage young readers to use, explore and enjoy the richness of English.
Download or read book Year 7 English written by Steven Croft and published by Letts and Lonsdale. This book was released on 2008-06-13 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In line with the Key State 3 curriculum changes, these course books provide full coverage of the new programme of study. Every topic within each book comprises a clear overview of all the key concepts and ideas, followed by pages of practice material to reinforce learning, test understanding and help develop skills.
Download or read book Macquarie Study Dictionary written by Macquarie and published by Jacaranda. This book was released on 1998 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The only dictionary with detailed word lists and definitions for all subject areas. The Macquarie Study Dictionary represents the ultimate concept in dictionaries. Its innovations make it the dictionary of choice to take students through their entire secondary school years and beyond. The Macquarie Study Dictionary features a listing of 35,000 headwords, integrated thesaurus entries, detailed subject word lists and integrated definitions for the following areas: Art Biology Business Studies Chemistry Civics Computing Earth Science English Geography Health History Legal Studies Mathematics Physical Education Physics Psychology An index at the back of the dictionary provides a speedy reference to all subject-specific words defined in the body of the dictionary. No longer do students need to purchase separate dictionaries to cover their subject areas, nor a separate thesaurus. In this one package, students have a complete cross-curricular resource designed to carry them through all their years of secondary schooling. Additional features: User-friendly size with soft cover Respelling pronunciation guide Appendix list of all words in subject areas
Download or read book The Penguin Roget s Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases written by Peter Mark Roget and published by Puffin Books. This book was released on 1985 with total page 802 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Australian Law Dictionary written by Trischa Mann and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Australian Law Dictionary is a key reference for those who need familiarity with, and knowledge of, Australian legal terms most commonly encountered when studying law and in the profession.
Download or read book New Trends in Lexicography written by Olga Karpova and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2010-02-19 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The present book contains a collection of works developing new trends in theoretical and practical lexicography devoted to manifold description of lexis. All papers are divided into two main sections: Part I, Systemic and Cross-cultural Relations of Words in the Dictionary, presents analysis of cultural issues and phraseology with special reference to English dictionaries for general- and specific-purposes. The main focus is given to the principles of lexicographic presentation of non-equivalent lexis, idioms, clichés, nominations of non-verbal behaviour and proper names of people in bilingual and monolingual dictionaries. Part II, entitled Specialized Dictionaries: Traditions and Innovations, deals with peculiarities of Author Lexicography, Learners lexicography, LSP dictionaries, dictionaries of English verbs, and varieties of the English language in its synchronic and diachronic aspects. This book is based on plenary presentations of the VIIIth school on Lexicography “Synchronic and Diachronic Lexicography: A New Age of Theory and Practice” (Ivanovo State University, September 10–12, 2009) and continues the series of monographs devoted to theoretical and practical problems of modern and historical lexicography: Essays on Lexicon, Lexicography, Terminography in Russian, American and Other Cultures (2007) and Lexicography and Terminology: A Worldwide Outlook (2009) published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
Download or read book My First Thesaurus written by and published by Holt McDougal. This book was released on 1990 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents synonyms with their definitions for a number of common English words.
Download or read book Macquarie Budget Dictionary written by Macquarie Dictionary and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2017-07-25 with total page 47 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Macquarie Budget Dictionary provides up-to-date coverage of essential, everyday words used in Australian English. Compiled for the general dictionary user, it is an ideal reference dictionary for home, school or the office. It includes: · more than 39,000 definitions written in a clear, simple style · new entries such as freecycle, microbead, listicle, grolar bear and digital tattoo · a list of common abbreviations · countries of the world, their capital cities, languages and currencies
Download or read book English in Australia written by David Blair and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2001-01-01 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This unique collection fills a ten-year gap in studies on the nature of Australian English, and it is the first to deal exclusively with varieties of English on the Australian continent. The book contains chapters on the phonology, morphology, syntax and the lexicon of the dialect, and chapters on variation within the dialect that include Aboriginal and ethnic varieties as well as regional and generational differences with a focus on questions of Australian identity and intercultural relations. With selected contributions by Australia's leading linguists this volume records the most recent developments in the study of English within Australia.
