Collins COBUILD Resource Pack comes with Collins COBUILD Advanced
Learners English Dictionary for Advanced Learners, Word Bank of 5
million words of authentic text samples (written and spoken) from the
Bank of English corpus, Collins COBUILD Guide to English Usage,
Collins COBUILD English Grammar and Thesaurus containing over 130,000
synonyms.

Collins COBUILD Advanced Learners English Dictionary offers detailed
treatment of today language. Based on the evidence from the Bank of
English corpus, which now contains over 524 million words, contains
the most important new words and meanings which have come into the
language over the past two years, as well as thousands of new, updated
examples, taken directly from the corpus.

Not just a dictionary this is what is included:

 * Collins COBUILD English Dictionary for Advanced Learners (4th and
   edition published in 2003)
 * Collins COBUILD Guide to English Usage
 * Collins COBUILD English Grammar
 * Word Bank of 5 million words of authentic text samples (written
   and spoken) from the Bank of English corpus
 * Thesaurus containing over 130,000 synonyms
 * over 70,000 high quality audio pronunciations of headwords,
   phrases, derived words, and inflected forms are spoken

With fast and powerful searching across all components, this CD-ROM
offers an unrivalled guide to the English language today. Much more
than just an electronic dictionary, it contains.

Collins COBUILD English Dictionary for Advanced Learners including:

 * 2,000 new words that have come into use
 * improved coverage of American English
 * updated definitions to make them simpler and provide a clearer
   understanding.
 * full installation to the hard drive option for fast and easy
   reference without using the CD. Requires 50 MB free if the audio
   is not installed and 600MB of free hard disk drive space to
   install everything.
 * Collins COBUILD Guide to English Usage rapid access to additional
   information on how to use the word
 * Collins COBUILD English Grammar For a full explanation of English
   Grammar terms.
 * Fast reference to the grammar symbols in the help file Simple easy
   to understand definitions for the grammar symbols so you can fully
   understand how the word is used.
 * quickly retrieve examples of the use of words in real English
   text, written and spoken from the Word Bank of 5 million words of
   authentic text samples
 * Thesaurus containing over 130,000 synonyms
 * over 70,000 high quality audio pronunciations of headwords,
   phrases, derived words, and inflected forms
 * new record and playback feature so users can compare their own
   pronunciation with the high quality recording on the CD-ROM
 * full text search over all the contents of this comprehensive CD-
   ROM
 * one-click hyperlinking so the user can link quickly and easily
   move between the dictionary, grammar, usage, thesaurus and Word
   Bank

What's New in Collins COBUILD Resource Pack:

 * Collins COBUILD Advanced Learners English Dictionary for Advanced
   Learners
 * Word Bank of 5 million words of authentic text samples (written
   and spoken) from the Bank of English corpus
 * Collins COBUILD Guide to English Usage
 * Collins COBUILD English Grammar
 * Thesaurus containing over 130,000 synonyms

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