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Students learning English often have difficulties knowing which preposition goes with a particular adjective. This is where this dictionary will help you. It contains about 700 entries. By looking up the adjective you will find the preposition, a definition and an example: indispensable: adj. indispensable to so important that nothing will happen without it: Thorough research is indispensable to a historian. In the above short entry: indispensable...
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Remarkable progress continues to be made in mathematical sciences. This advancement has made inter-relationships amongst various branches within mathematics and with other branches of science highly evolving; leading to newer 'terms' being invented and getting added. These additions make mathematics a little more complex. Emerging complexity translates into more difficulties for students in grasping the problem. And what makes the comprehension problematic?...
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This perhaps is the first dictionary in the world dedicated to benefit candidates searching for job placements. It goes straight into the mind of a job seeker and provides answer to 'specific job-related terms' connected with the selection process. The knowledge gained will come handy at the time of searching for a suitable job online, in newspapers, while making application or at the time of interview. Terms covered are from popular fields such as...
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Consultar el Diccionario de ecuatorianismos con citas puede convertirse en algo más que la respuesta a una necesidad puntual de conocer el significado de una palabra, para ser un espacio lúdico. Como en un gran tablero, uno podría ir de palabra en palabra, de autor en autor, de reflexión en reflexión y finalmente, ojalá, de la apropiación al reconocimiento. Ya que, a fin de cuentas, por qué seguimos haciendo diccionarios en pleno siglo XXI,...
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The EnglishNavajo Children's Picture Dictionary is an English language children's dictionary with Navajo translations. By using these translations, and also the accompanying English sentence employing the entry word and the pictures, Navajospeaking students should be able to get a better understanding of each entry word's meaning. The book will also be helpful to those students who are learning to read Navajo, and to those who are learning the Navajo...
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Watch your mouth é um dicionário de vulgarismos, insultos, xingamentos, palavrões e o caramba a quatro, em inglês. Com definições explícitas, o dicionário vai satisfazer a sua curiosidade e ajudá-lo a entender significados reais sem asteriscos ou beeps! Este é um dicionário que traz todas aquelas palavras e expressões que você gostaria de saber o que significam, mas não tem coragem de perguntar ao seu professor ou simplesmente não as...
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No-minute noodler: a kid who eats the two-minute noodles straight from the packet without even cooking them! Dinobore: a kid who can’t talk about anything other than dinosaurs.
Bumboozle: to confuse the issue of who it was that farted by blaming it all on the dog!
A very funny book of words that should exist but don't!
Includes a great do-it-yourself section for kids at the back.
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Most speakers and writers use the terms metaphor and simile as if they mean exactly the same thing. But they are not! A simile is a metaphor, but not all metaphors are similes. A metaphor compares two things, and does so more directly without using as or like. For example, the shop was a little gold-mine. A simile compares (usually introduced by like or as) two things that are generally not alike--such as a line of migrant workers and a wave, or onion...
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Until now, no dictionary has ever attempted to record the fascinating and often raunchy inventory of English sexual euphemisms. Jordan Tate has confronted this task with gusto and the results are nothing short of gratifying. The Contemporary Dictionary of Sexual Euphemisms is a hilarious, unabashed, at times shocking compilation of every sexual euphemism you've ever heard-and many more you haven't.
Would you be offended if someone called you a "back...
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We see application of science everywhere. Whether we are aware or not, science application plays a big part in our daily lives. While you are reading this page, an important element of optical science is in use. Electricity, for example, is one of the most important science discoveries ever made. As we walk in the public, we see almost everyone carrying a cellular phone. This is an application of electronics & communications technology. To remain...
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wonderful ebook give the ideas of artificial intelligence applications and how to use them as well. Beautifully explained.
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Students learning English often have difficulties knowing which preposition goes with a particular noun. This is where this dictionary will help you. It contains about 1,200 entries. Note that not all possible uses of nouns and prepositions are included. Usages that can be easily deduced from the noun and normal uses of prepositions are excluded. We hope that you will find this dictionary helpful and that it will help you to use English nouns correctly....
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Qui connaît vraiment les intellectuel.les hors du cercle restreint des historiens et des littéraires? Quelle mémoire avons-nous de celles et ceux qui, au Québec, eurent recours à la parole comme « mode d'action »? Qui, comme Hubert Aquin, entreprirent et entreprennent encore de « comprendre dangereusement » la culture et la société de leur époque, remuant idées et images, bousculant pouvoirs et doxa?
Ce dictionnaire est conçu pour combler...
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From "all systems go" to "senior moment"-a comprehensive reference to idiomatic English.
The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms explores the meanings and origins of idioms that may not make literal sense but play an important role in the language-including phrasal verbs such as kick back, proverbs such as too many cooks spoil the broth, interjections such as tough beans, and figures of speech such as elephant in the room.
With extensive...
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The Picture Dictionary is an exciting interactive approach to vocabulary building for young learners. It offers everything needed to make learning a new language a delight. Aim of the picture dictionary: To improve children's understanding of English; To help children develop their dictionary skills; To encourage children to enjoy learning English. Specifically designed to engage and motivate young learners and to make English fun, its special features...
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A dictionary of Somali verbs in everyday contexts. The Somali-English dictionary of verbs is the first of its kind for learners of Somali as a second language. It contains more than 500 verbs used in Somali sentences with English translations. The dictionary has been compiled in learner-friendly format to help the student: Identify the conjugation group of a given verb. Learn specific tense usages. Learn how different prepositions affect the meaning...
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We see application of science everywhere. Whether we are aware or not, science application plays a big part in our daily lives. While you are reading this page, an important element of optical science is in use. Electricity, for example, is one of the most important science discoveries ever made. As we walk in the public, we see almost everyone carrying a cellular phone. This is an application of electronics & communications technology. To remain...
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This introduction to English grammar is aimed equally at those who are taking first steps in learning English and at native speakers or who are trying to improve a basic grasp of the grammatical rules that underpin the English language. It is grammar that gives any language its character and its practical usefulness, and an understanding of grammatical rules and conventions is as important as mastery of the vocabulary to achieve any degree of fluency....
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A book for those who come from away and for us livyers. This work brings together words from indigenous cultures and words spoken and recorded in English from the time of the European discovery of the New Founde Lande in 1497.The dominant European language became English, imported from the West Country of England and enriched by settlers from Scotland, Wales, Ireland, the Channel Islands, and France. Because settlements were separated from the Mother...
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If you believe idioms are a "tough nut to crack," this Dictionary of Idioms will help you dispel that belief; you would surely abandon your opinion of idioms being a bunch of insignificant words to that of a lively one to use to attract attention of readers and listeners. You will discover 'idioms' can add beauty, remove unwanted seriousness, and bring life to any conversation – written or spoken. Rightly and scientifically designed, this dictionary...
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