English Language

English Language

Names Studies

Chief Editor/Managing Editor, FIRST EDITIONS OF MAJOR ENGLISH DICTIONARIES

^{New Oxford Dictionary of English (1998)}
systemic grammar (also systemic linguistics) noun [mass noun] Linguistics a method of analysis based on the conception of language as a network of systems determining the options from which speakers choose in accordance with their communicative goals. cognitive grammar Noun [mass noun] a theory of grammar that seeks to characterize, in a psychologically realistic way, those structures and abilities that constitute a speaker's grasp of linguistic convention, and to relate them to other cognitive processes.
^{Collins Cobuild English Language Dictionary (1987)}
chary. Someone who is chary is careful and cautious about what they do or say. EG Enterprises are becoming increasingly chary of taking on new workers... She started a chary descent of the stairs. gallop, gallops, galloping, galloped. When a horse gallops, it runs very fast so that all four legs are off the ground at the same time in each stride. EG The horse galloped down the road with his ears flat to his head. If you say "That's more like it", you mean that the thing that you are referring to is more satisfactory than it was on earlier occasions. EG Fifteen miles a day, that's more like it.
^{Collins English Dictionary (1979)}
At•ro•pos n. Greek myth. the one of the three fates who severs the thread of life. [Greek, from atropos that may not be turned, from a-¹ + -tropos from trepein to turn] ex+e•ge•sis n. pl. •ses (-si:z). explanation or critical interpretation of a text, esp. of the bible. "Tau+po n. Lake. a lake in New Zealand, on central North Island: the largest lake of New Zealand. Area: 616 sq.km (238 sq.miles).
^{FULL LIST OF DICTIONARIES}^{2000 (with Maurice Waite, Sara Hawker, and others) The New Oxford Thesaurus of English. Oxford University Press. 1998 (with J. Pearsall and others): The New Oxford Dictionary of English, Oxford University Press 1995 (chief editor) Oxford English Reference Dictionary, Oxford University Press 1989a (editorial director, with John Sinclair, Rosamund Moon, and others) Collins Cobuild Dictionary of Phrasal Verbs 1989b (editorial director, with John Sinclair, Ramesh Krishnamurthy, and others) Cobuild English Learners' Dictionary, Pons: Ernst Klett Verlag 1989c (chief editor, with Marian Makins, Gwyneth Fox, and others) Collins School Dictionary 1989d (chief editor, with Marian Makins and others) Collins Pocket English Dictionary 1989e (chief editor, with Marian Makins and others) Collins Concise Dictionary Plus 1988a (managing editor, with John Sinclair, Gwyneth Fox, and others) Collins Cobuild Essential English Dictionary 1988b (chief editor, with William T. McLeod, Marian Makins, and others) The Collins Concise Dictionary, second edition 1987 (managing editor, with John Sinclair and others) Collins Cobuild English Language Dictionary 1986c (editor, with others) Collins English Dictionary, second edition 1982 (chief editor, with William T. McLeod and others) The Collins Concise Dictionary 1979 (editor, with Laurence Urdang, Thomas Hill Long, and others) Collins English Dictionary 1971 (editor) Encyclopedic World Dictionary, Paul Hamlyn Publishers}