This book unlocks the meaning of more than 5,000 idioms used in American English today.

The authoritative guide to American English as it's really used today. Based on the Cambridge International Corpus, a database that includes more than 200 million words of spoken and written American English, the paperback edition contains more than 40,000 definitions of words and phrases. Entries are organized by meaning, and words with more than one meaning are clearly marked with a boxed guideword, so there's no guesswork involved in finding the right entry. Definitions are written using a carefully controlled 2,000-word defining vocabulary, so they are clear and easy to understand. The dictionary also includes coverage of important Canadian and British words and meanings.

The best American English learner's dictionary is better than ever, with new words and new features. Based on the world's largest corpus of American English, the book and CD include up-to-date vocabulary, easy-to-understand definitions, helpful usage notes, and examples that show how English is really used. The CD-ROM features spoken pronunciations for every word, advanced search features, a thesaurus, and instant lookups of words on Web pages and other documents.

Includes forty thousand common words and expressions with definitions and usage examples

The authoritative guide to American English as it's really used today. The Cambridge Dictionary of American English Student Activity Book helps students find their way around a dictionary. The 21 study units in the Activity Book are designed to help users make the dictionary work for them by explaining special features of CDAE, how information is arranged in an entry, and how to access it. Exercises in the study units cover basic dictionary skills, such as interpreting grammatical information, using the guidewords to find a meaning, and applying the pronunciation key.

The authoritative guide to American English as it's really used today. The Network CD-ROM makes the world's best American English electronic dictionary available over a local PC network. Computer-equipped classrooms and language labs can now access all of the features available on the CD. Learners can hear pronunciations of all entry words, recorded by native speakers of American English. Users can search for words or entries with particular parts of speech, grammar codes, and usage labels, as well as search by category. Students can add their own notes to entries. Links between entries and related pictures and appendixes give learners additional information at the click of a mouse.

O dicionário Cambridge de inglês americano que serviu de base para o presente semibilíngue Cambridge 'Dictionary of American English for Speakers' of Portuguese é um dicionário abalizado, feito com a autoridade dos consultores ESL/EFL e que utiliza o Cambridge International Corpus, com mais de 100 milhões de termos de inglês americano, de onde foram extraídos os exemplos e as definições. Além de ser um dicionário completo, com as 40.000 palavras e frases mais usadas, inclusive por canadenses e britânicos, é também uma obra clara, de fácil compreensão e abrangente, uma vez que são usadas apenas 2.000 palavras para as definições, que englobam a linguagem dos negócios, das artes, da tecnologia e da vida diária.

The Cambridge Guide to English Usage is an A-Z reference book, giving an up-to-date account of the debatable issues of English usage and written style. Its advice draws on a wealth of recent research and data from very large corpora of American and British English - illuminating their many divergences and also points of convergence on which international English can be based. The book comprises more than 4000 points of word meaning, spelling, grammar and punctuation, and larger issues of inclusive language, and effective writing and argument. It also provides guidance on grammatical terminology, and covers topics in electronic communication and the internet. The discussion notes the major dictionaries, grammars and usage books in the USA, UK, Canada and Australia, allowing readers to calibrate their own practices as required. CGEU is descriptive rather than prescriptive, but offers a principled basis for implementing progressive or more conservative decisions on usage.