Includes:
- Collins Cobuild English Dictionary for Advanced Learners
- Collins Cobuild English Grammar
- Collins Cobuild English Usage
- Collins Cobuild Thesaurus
- 5 million Word Bank
This major new edition of the acclaimed 'Collins Cobuild On CD-ROM' is now available to both 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.
Much more than just an electronic dictionary, it contains:
- English Dictionary, Guide to English Usage, and English Grammar
- A Word Bank with authentic text samples (written and spoken) taken from the Bank of English corpus
- A Thesaurus containing over 130,000 synonyms
- Over 67,000 high quality audio pronunciations for all headwords, phrases, derived words and inflected forms
Features:
- "record and playback" features so users can compare their own pronunciation with that on the CD-ROM
- wordbank can be searched to find thousands of examples of word and phrases in use from real English text
- full text search over all the content of the CD-ROM
- fast hyperlinking between dictionary, grammar, usage, thesaurus and wordbank
