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based on the 4.5-billion-word database of the English language, the Collins Corpus. This means that learners and teachers around the world can trust COBUILD to help them speak and write …

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Collins English Dictionary is an elegantly-designed comprehensive reference designed to last on the family bookshelf. Our market-leading Complete and Unabridged bilingual dictiona

With 85, words, meanings and phrases, this compact Collins English dictionary is the perfect companion. Notes on the various situations in which certain grammar points typically appear, …

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When Collins COBUILD English Language Dictionary (abbreviated to COBUILD1) was issued in 1987, users in Japan (most of them were school teachers and lexicographers) were surprised …

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This is a critical review of Collins COBUILD English Dictionary for Advanced Learners (abbreviated to COB UILD3). Five people have joined to analyze the new edition and compare …

When the first COBUILD dictionary was published in 1987, it revolutionized dictionaries for learners. It was the first of a new generation of language reference materials that were based …

We can say from these statements that COBAm is intended to be a new type of pedagogical dictionary that targets advanced learners of American English. The aim of this paper is to …

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Collins COBUILD English Language Dictionary J.M. Sinclair (Ed.) Collins ELT, London, 1987. ix+182pp. ISBN 0 00 370256 1. George DUNBAR Centre for Cognitive Science, Edinburgh …

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Collins Dictionary of the English Language . After giving background, motivation, and a survey of related work, the Collins lexicon is discussed. Following is a description of the conversion …

hypernyms from five English dictionaries for a limited corpus. To determine where problems exist, the resulting hierarchies for each dictionary are compared to an "ideal" hierarchy constructed …

Idioms are treated as figures of speech, which are defined in the Collins English Dictionary (2006) as “an expression such as a simile, in which words do not have their literal meaning, but are …