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Collins COBUILD Learner's Dictionary (Collins Cobuild Dictionaries) (Paperback)

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  • Paperback: 1348 pages
  • Publisher: Collins CoBUILD (12 April 1996)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0003750582
  • ISBN-13: 978-0003750584
  • Product Dimensions: 21.8 x 15.2 x 4.6 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  (2 customer reviews)
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This dictionary serves as a reference book for all students from intermediate level upwards. It offers extensice coverage of phrasal verbs and idioms, information on world frequency, and a detailed treatment of modern English.

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4.0 out of 5 stars The Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary, 1 Jan 2005
The Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary (4th edition) is the latest dictionary for learners from HarperCollins Publishers. The name COBUILD stands for "Collins Birmingham University International Language Database". It means that the dictionary is based on a "corpus" - a collection of British and American newspapers, books, TV programs, real-life conversations, etc.
Probably the most interesting thing about the Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary are its definitions. They are full sentences, not phrases. For example: If something comes to fruition, it starts to succeed and produce the results that were intended or hoped for. Because this definition is a full sentence, it gives you a lot of information. It shows that fruition is usually used in the phrase "come to fruition". The definitions in the CCED do not simply tell you what a word means, they tell you how to use it - in what phrases, in what grammar structures, in what context. At the same time, you can understand them easily. The definitions are also very "natural". They are sentences that could be said by any native speaker of English. The Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary has at least one example sentence for almost every meaning of every word. The number of examples per definition is about the same as in other modern dictionaries for learners. the example sentences in the CCED show how a word is really used by speakers of English. They are not invented by an editor; they are natural. Just like the definitions, the examples focus on the most important phrases, grammar structures, contexts, etc. which contain the word.
Phonetic transcriptions in the CCED are based on A.C. Gimson's phonemic system, which uses symbols of the IPA to represent English phonemes. Gimson's system was first used in 1967 in the English Pronouncing Dictionary, and is now used by most dictionary publishers. The dictionary tries to represent both British and American English with one transcription. The transcriptions use mostly British phoneme symbols and the dictionary gives rules for "converting" these symbo