The Oxford Minidictionary of Abbreviations
Title | The Oxford Minidictionary of Abbreviations PDF eBook |
Author | John Daintith |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 363 |
Release | 1993 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 9780198631354 |
The Oxford Minidictionary of Abbreviations: over 8,000 modern abbreviations; up to date and easy to use; pronunciations; the most comprehensive small abbreviations dictionary; hundreds of new abbreviations, for example CIS, OFTEL, PC, SAT, and DCC.
The Oxford Dictionary of Abbreviations
Title | The Oxford Dictionary of Abbreviations PDF eBook |
Author | John Daintith |
Publisher | Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | 438 |
Release | 1992 |
Genre | Reference |
ISBN |
Compiled from the resources of the Oxford English Dictionary and a wide range of national newspapers and journals, this is a brand new and totally up-to-date guide to every kind of abbreviation. Covering the most important business, scientific, and technical abbreviation, as well as those in everyday use, the dictionary includes acronyms, initialisms, shortenings, symbols and signs, and hybrid forms. Graphics symbols such as proofreading marks, hallmarks, music, science, and weather symbols are all given in a series of appendices. Anyone who reads or writes current English will find this accessible reference useful, but it will be indispensable to professionals, businesses, technical writers, and journalists.
The Oxford Dictionary of Abbreviations
Title | The Oxford Dictionary of Abbreviations PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | Oxford University |
Total Pages | 436 |
Release | 1998 |
Genre | Reference |
ISBN |
Abbreviations are a part of everyday life and are becoming increasingly prevalent in the areas of banking, computers, and business. Compiled from the resources of the Oxford English Dictionary and a wide range of newspapers and journals, Dictionary of Abbreviations, Second Edition is the most up-to-date and comprehensive guide to abbreviations available in paperback. Covering all the most important business, scientific, and technical abbreviations, as well as those in everyday use, the dictionary contains over 20,000 abbreviations and 36,000 definitions. Included here are acronyms (ROM, NATO), initialisms (OED, CFC), shortenings (Sun. for Sunday), symbols, and signs (K, HZ, and A4), as well as hybrid forms (A-bomb). Coverage is also international in scope, and graphic symbols such as proofreading marks, hallmarks, music, science, and weather symbols are all provided in a series of appendices. This new edition, containing 1,700 new headwords and senses, also provides the latest abbreviations for organizations, terms used in advertising, computers and the internet, medicine, and government.
The Oxford Dictionary of Abbreviations
Title | The Oxford Dictionary of Abbreviations PDF eBook |
Author | Market House Books Ltd |
Publisher | Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | 428 |
Release | 1993 |
Genre | Reference |
ISBN |
Compiled from the resources of the Oxford English Dictionary and a wide range of newspapers and journals, this is the most up-to-date and comprehensive guide to abbreviations available in paperback. Covering all the most important business, scientific, and technical abbreviations, as well as those in everyday use, the dictionary has over 19,000 entries, and includes acronyms (ROM, NATO), initialisms (OED, CFC), shortenings (Sun. for Sunday), symbols and signs (e.g. K, HZ, and A4), and hybrid forms (A-bomb). Coverage is also international in scope, and graphic symbols such as proofreading marks, hallmarks, music, science, and weather symbols are all given in a series of appendices. Anyone who reads or writes current English will find this accessible reference useful, but it will be indispensable to professionals, businesses, technical writers, and journalists.
The Oxford Essential Dictionary of Abbreviations
Title | The Oxford Essential Dictionary of Abbreviations PDF eBook |
Author | Berkley Publishing Group |
Publisher | Berkley Publishing Group |
Total Pages | 0 |
Release | 2004 |
Genre | Abbreviations, English |
ISBN | 9780425197042 |
From LAN to LOL, SWAT to SWAK, this dictionary contains full explanations of nearly 20,000 abbreviations for today's acronym-heavy world, including slang, the Internet, emoticons, and text-messaging abbreviations. Original.
The Oxford English Minidictionary
Title | The Oxford English Minidictionary PDF eBook |
Author | Helen Liebeck |
Publisher | Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | 634 |
Release | 1995-01 |
Genre | English language |
ISBN | 9780198613244 |
Now featuring a helpful, improved layout, even clearer, more striaghtforward definitions, revised, easy-to-understand labeling, and increased coverage of irregular, variant, and American spellings, this new edition of Oxford's littlest dictionary also offers improved coverage of business, technical, and educational terms and abbreviations. 40,000 entries.
Dictionary of Abbreviations
Title | Dictionary of Abbreviations PDF eBook |
Author | Walter Thomas Rogers |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 232 |
Release | 1913 |
Genre | Reference |
ISBN |