Robert L. Mack, Gray's definitive biographer, has observed that a recent edition of the Oxford Dictionary of Quotations draws from 15 stanzas and reproduces 13 of them whole.
In addition, the new Reader line offers users on-screen functionality to look up words and phrases with the built-in New Oxford American Dictionary, Second Edition and Oxford Dictionary of English eDictionaries, as well as 10 translation dictionaries in languages such as French, German, Spanish, Italian and Dutch.
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The most recent edition of the Oxford Concise Dictionary of First Names included a clutch of neo-names such as Bijou, Gobnat, Beige, Raven, Karma and Zenith.
Thus the Oxford English Dictionary explains one of the most basic institutions in a modern economy.
The epic idea of the Oxford English Dictionary--to find every word in the English language--was typical of the Victorian era, a time when dazzling inventions and seemingly impossible projects were pursued.
The Oxford English Dictionary gives this sense of peculiarity as "the ordinary current objective sense".
Clicktivism even made the Oxford English Dictionary towards the end of 2011.
The 2008 book "Perfumes: The A-Z Guide, " by Luca Turin and Tania Sanchez, has become something of an Oxford English Dictionary for scent.
There is no guarantee omnishambles, or any of the other shortlisted words, will make it on to the pages of the Oxford English Dictionary.
In the Victorian age, it took a small army of volunteer readers twenty years to amass the 3.5 million citation slips illustrating the usage of all the words in the English vocabulary that were used to prepare the first edition of the Oxford English Dictionary.
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According to the Oxford English Dictionary, barista is a word of Italian origin that refers to a "person who makes and serves coffee in a coffee bar".
According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the word has now come to mean an expression of excited approval.
But these are of a different order from plagiarism, which the Oxford Dictionary defines as "taking someone else's work or ideas and passing them off as one's own".
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The New Shorter Oxford English Dictionary (as opposed to the Old Longer One) pegs the birth of the slang sometime between 1930 and 1969.
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