- Hardcover: 300 pages
- Publisher: Collins Cobuild; Third edition edition (6 Oct 2003)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0007169213
- ISBN-13: 978-0007169214
- Product Dimensions: 18.7 x 13.9 x 1.7 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 577,687 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Product Description
Product Description
This major new edition of the acclaimed Collins COBUILD on CD-Rom is now available to PC and Mac users.
With fast and powerful searching across dictionary, grammar, usage and thesaurus, this CD-Rom offers an unrivalled guide to the English language today. It contains the following:
• Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner’s English Dictionary
• Collins COBUILD Guide to English Usage
• Collins COBUILD English Grammar
• 5 million word “Word Bank” of authentic text samples (written and spoken)
• Thesaurus
• Over 68,000 high quality audio pronunciations for headwords, phrases, derived words, inflected forms.
Its special software features include:
• “record and playback” feature so users can compare their own pronunciation with model on the CD-Rom
• Word Bank can be searched to find thousands of examples of words and phrases in use from real English text
• easy-to-use interface
• full-text search over all the content of the CD-Rom
• easy hyperlinking between different components of the CD-Rom
• integration with Microsoft (TM) Word (TM) for quick access
Technical specification:
PC
Operating system: MS Windows 95/98/NT/2000/ME/XP
Processor: Intel 80486 compatible or higher
Disk space: full install 700Mb free hard disk
Sound: Windows-compatible sound card, headphones or speakers
Memory: minimum 16Mb RAM
Mac
Operating system: Mac OS 8.6, 9.0, 9.1or 9.2.2
Memory: minimum 32Mb RAM
Processor: PPC
Disk space: full install 700Mb free hard disk space
Sound: headphones or speakers
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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
Collins has provided us with a most helpful resource pack. I have used it now over three years - literary daily, often 50 times a day - while I was writing my thesis. Its dictionary, and thesaurus that is 'one click away', were invaluable when I searched for the right word to express what I wanted to say.
I can't say how great it is that the dictionary pronounces every word. And this is the point where I think the resource pack should be improved. On my decently quick computer (P4 1.6) it takes 7-8 seconds for the computer to pronounce the first word when the dictionary is opened. That's just unacceptable. It should be instant! Next, I recently bought on the Amazon a new cd (version 3.0) for my second computer. This claims to integrate with Microsoft Word. But when I installed it (I use Word 2003)this hasn't integrated. I hope that the publishers will soon address these weaknesses, and once they do I thoroughly recommend it!
I can't say how great it is that the dictionary pronounces every word. And this is the point where I think the resource pack should be improved. On my decently quick computer (P4 1.6) it takes 7-8 seconds for the computer to pronounce the first word when the dictionary is opened. That's just unacceptable. It should be instant! Next, I recently bought on the Amazon a new cd (version 3.0) for my second computer. This claims to integrate with Microsoft Word. But when I installed it (I use Word 2003)this hasn't integrated. I hope that the publishers will soon address these weaknesses, and once they do I thoroughly recommend it!
P.S. I haven't talked about other parts of the pack as I really haven't used them much.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
COBUILD is an Excellent Dictionary. I bought the CD a few years ago and I use it daily. The version I use is Lingea Lexicon 2002 ver 4.10 (Lingea is the company that made the software, COBUILD is the dictionary). My operating-system is ubuntu 7.10 (linux). It runs perfectly with wine 0.9.46 (www.winehq.org). Even the sound (pronunciation) works perfectly.
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4 Aug 2005
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