The CD-ROM also offers all of the exciting updates made to the dictionary text. It offers a simple and attractive interface which is fully customizable, making it easy to change the text size, fonts, and the color of both text and background. The new edition of the CD-ROM is designed to benefit all users. In addition it features a crossword puzzle solver and anagram solver. Sound recordings enable you to listen to standard British pronunciations for over 100,000 words. There is also an automatic look-up facility by double-clicking on a word in a document or web page the user can view the entry for that word. With an elegant interface providing quick and intuitive searching, it also has advanced searching facilities for in-depth exploration, allowing searching of the definitions, etymologies, subject, geographical region of use, register, and source language, as well as the ability to limit searches by the date of a word's first recorded usage. The CD-ROM is designed to run on both Windows and Apple Macintosh computers. Based on the 20-volume Oxford English Dictionary, the 'Shorter' contains an incredible one-third of the coverage of the Oxford English Dictionary, is just one-tenth of the size, and includes all words in current English from 1700 to the present day, with senses organized chronologically, plus the vocabulary of Shakespeare, the Bible and other major works in English from before 1700.
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The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary on CD-ROM features the full text of the Sixth Edition of the Shorter Oxford English Dictionary, which is a complete update of this unique reference work.
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