Shorter Oxford English Dictionary (fifth edition) on CD-ROM

This CD-ROM version of the newly updated edition of The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary enables users to perform fast and comprehensive searches of more than half a million definitions, augmented with thousands of new words and meanings. Furnished with a new design, this electronic version of the Shorter OED provides extensive coverage of world English as well as comprehensive coverage of scientific and technical English. Advanced search options allow users to carry out flexible searches for headwords, abbreviations, derivatives, phrases, references, and other words forms, or to filter searches by part of speech, label, or date.

• This CD-ROM contains the full text of the new updated edition of the Shorter Oxford English Dictionary with more than half a million definitions, augmented with thousands of new words and meanings and furnished with a new design. Provides an extensive coverage of world English as well as a comprehensive coverage of scientific and technical English. This includes:
  • 83,000 illustrative quotations from 7,000 authors
    
    
  • Entries with meanings listed chronologically and dates for first use of each
  • All major words in English used after 1700, as well as the vocabulary of Shakespeare, Milton, Spenser, and the King James Bible
  • Details of rare and obsolete words
• Advanced search options allow users to carry out flexible searches for headwords, abbreviations, derivatives, phrases, references, and other words forms, or to filter searches by part of speech, label, or date.
• New sound recordings enable you to listen to standard British pronunciations for over 100,000 words.
• Automatic look-up feature enabling you to access Shorter Oxford English Dictionary definitions from other applications. Hypertext search makes it possible to cross-reference any word in the dictionary with a single mouse click.
• Option to install the SOED to the hard disk and run it without the CD-ROM.
• System requirements: PC with minimum 200 MHz Pentium-class processor, 32 MB RAM, 16-speed CD-ROM drive, Windows 95, 98, Me, NT, XP or 2000 (Administrator rights are required to install the SOED on a PC running Windows 2000, NT4 or XP), min 290 MB hard disk space (450 MB recommended), SVGA monitor: 800 x 600 pixels, 16 bit (64K, high colour) setting recommended, Windows-compatible 16-bit sound card.