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Dictionary To browse the A-to-Z dictionary entries, much as you would a printed dictionary: • Choose Dictionary from the Browse panel. • A list of entries beginning with A, n. is displayed. Each consists of the headword (the name of the entry) and the entry's first line. • Browse the list using the cursor and/or Next » and « Previous. • To view an entry from the list, click on its headword. • To move quickly to a point in the results list, type the letter you want into the "jump to alphabetical..." input box and click . E.g. typing g moves the list to the first matching entry beginning with g. • The standard number of results is 20 per page, but you can alter this (up to a maximum of 100) by clicking one of the Items per page options. The word wheel You can also browse the entries using the word wheel. The word wheel, headed Jump to:, contains the list of all the entries in the dictionary. It always opens with the most recently viewed entry highlighted in the centre of the list. Click on any entry to display it. Browse the word wheel: • A page at a time using arrows at the top and bottom of the list • By typing the first few letters of the word you want into the input box above the list. The wheel will move to the closest match keyed in. Categories To browse the dictionary's categories: • Choose Categories from the Browse panel. • A list of categories is displayed, divided into Subject, Usage, Region and Origin. If a category can be expanded it is marked with a . • Choose ...

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What is a Quick search? The quick search finds main dictionary entries, such as alphabet, break, xylophone. It also finds phrases and compounds listed within main entries, such as to look up or alphabet book and variant spellings such as dictionarie. The Quick search box is in the centre left of the Home page and at the top of every other page of the dictionary. Running a Quick search • Type or paste the word you want to find in the Search box. • Click or press Enter. • A list of results is displayed, or, if there is a single result, the entry is displayed automatically. • Click on any of the results to open its entry. • A quick search will find your term if it is a main entry, subentry, or variant spelling. The quick search will not recognize a misspelling. If you do not know how to spell a word, you can • If you do not find the word you are looking for, go to ‘widen search’, or try an • In a Quick search, it is not necessary to type punctuation or worry about capital letters or hyphens. See also • You can use More on searching: If there is more than one match to a search, these are shown in the results list. Use the list to move to the entries you want to see. You can make your search more complex by using the wildcards * and ?. Wildcards are useful if you want to search for several terms with the same stem or if you don't know exactly how your term is spelled. How to search for accented characters and hyphenated terms. In any search you can type your search term in any ...

About About 600,000 words … 3.5 million quotations … over 1000 years of English The Oxford English Dictionary ( OED) is widely regarded as the accepted authority on the English language. It is an unsurpassed guide to the meaning, history, and pronunciation of 600,000 words— past and present—from across the English-speaking world. As a historical dictionary, the OED is very different from dictionaries of current English, in which the focus is on present-day meanings. You’ll still find present-day meanings in the OED, but you’ll also find the history of individual words, and of the language—traced through 3 million quotations, from classic literature and specialist periodicals to film scripts and cookery books. The OED started life more than 150 years ago. Today, the dictionary is in the process of its first major revision. Updates revise and extend the OED at regular intervals, each time subtly adjusting our image of the English language. Highlights • OED Labs– Our goal is to further develop the OED’s offering to actively support the needs of academic research as they evolve in the coming years. Take a look at new ways to access OED data, including the • OED access. • Oxford English Dictionary’s mission is to record all of these word stories, capturing their development as they continue to unfold. Our OED explains all. • Personal Subscriptions: We are pleased to offer annual individual OED subscriptions for £100 or $100. • Libraries and institutions: Annual subscriptions ar...