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Title: Random House Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (Version 3.0 for Windows 95/98/NT & Version 2.2 for Windows 3.1) by Random House Inc. ISBN: 0375403914 Publisher: Random House Reference & Pub. Date: 1999 Format: CD-ROM Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.77
Rating: 3
Summary: Easy to search, but...
Comment: I already had the Random House Dictionary in hardcover and found it has all the words I want to know but it's time-consuming to search words in the book. So I ordered CD-ROM, which dramatically reduced the time to search as expected. But there are several problems and failures I didn't expected. First, it doesn't contain all the contents the original dictionay has and it says Entry count 221444 on the menu bar though the cover says it has over 300,000 words. It hardly shows examples. Second, every time I boot my computer, there appears a message on my Windows Me screen that Are you really sure to delete all the contents and folders related with Random House Dictionay. What's wrong with this? How can I eliminate the wrong sign? I'm looking forward to the editor's reply from Korea, the far East Asia.
Rating: 4
Summary: A very impressive dictionary
Comment: I do agree with Stuart regarding the CD-ROM (although I've not seen the MS-DOS version) in that the definitions are abridged (vis-a-vis the book) and the search engine is nothing to write home about.
Apropos the book, the pros far outweighs the cons. I'm not a lexicographer but amongst the many dictionaries that I've come across, this one is the most exhaustive and definitive in terms of explaining the words, and it's etymology.
But I think the book would have fared better had it included examples of common usages of the word in the context of current spoken and written english.
Coming back to the CD-ROM, the clincher is the inclusion of recorded pronunciation of most of the words (reportedly some 120,000 of them) which helps in setting to rest most debates on how a word is to be pronounced !
All in all, if you want just one dictionary for your library, this is the one to have.
Rating: 4
Summary: The best of the three CD dictionaries that I have
Comment: I have the Random House Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, the Encarta World English Dictionary, and the American Heritage Talking Dictionary - all on CD. This one is the best. I've encountered several words ("stare decisis" is the most recent) that can only be found in this dictionary. Also, the pronunciation is the best on this CD. The Encarta sounds extremely robotic. And while the American Heritage sounds more human, it's not quite as clear (or as cheerful) as the Random House. If you're trying to decide which CD dictionary to buy among the three that I mentioned, I recommend this one.
The reason that I have three dictionaries is that I'm looking for a particular feature that I have not yet found. I want to construct my own dictionary with my own selected words in hard copy. So, I'd like to maintain a list of words - add them as they are new to me, remove them as they become familiar. Then I'd like to print the complete list with definition, etymology, etc. so that I can have my own custom dictionary. If anyone reading this has any suggestions, please email me at [email protected]. Thanks.
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Title: Random House Roget's College Thesaurus by Jess M. Stein, Stuart Berg Flexner, Enid Pearsons, Carol G. Braham, Random House ISBN: 0375425594 Publisher: Random House Reference & Pub. Date: 15 August, 2000 List Price(USD): $20.95 |
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Title: Roget International Thesaurus Indexed Edition by Barbara Ann Kipfer ISBN: 0060185759 Publisher: HarperCollins Pub. Date: 15 November, 2001 List Price(USD): $21.95 |
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Title: Webster's Third New International Dictionary, Unabridged by Philip Babcock Gove, Merriam-Webster ISBN: 0877792011 Publisher: Merriam-Webster, Inc. Pub. Date: 2002 List Price(USD): $119.00 |
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Title: Webster's Third New International Dictionary, Unabridged w/CD-ROM (3.0 version) by Merriam Webster, Merriam-Webster ISBN: 0877793026 Publisher: Merriam-Webster, Inc. Pub. Date: 2003 List Price(USD): $149.00 |
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Title:Random House Webster's Unabridged Dictionary ASIN: B00006H3DF Publisher: Multimedia 2000 Pub. Date: 27 August, 2002 List Price(USD): $19.99 Comparison N/A, buy it from Amazon for $19.99 |
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