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He became chief adviser of Collins' Cobuild English Language Dictionary, whose first edition was published in 1987. [2] [3] Sinclair was known for having unconventional ideas which helped to advance the young field of corpus linguistics. His Corpus, Concordance, Collocation formulated the "idiom principle". [4]
The Collins COBUILD Advanced Dictionary [1] (CCAD) from HarperCollins, first published in 1987, [2] is a dictionary that distinguished itself by providing definitions in full sentences, rather than excerpted phrases. Example sentences are given for almost every meaning of every word, drawn from a large corpus of actual usage.
The most important achievements of the COBUILD project have been the creation and analysis of an electronic corpus of contemporary text, the Collins Corpus, later leading to the development of the Bank of English, and the production of the monolingual learner's dictionary Collins COBUILD English Language Dictionary, based on the study of the ...
The 1979 edition of the dictionary, with Patrick Hanks as editor and Laurence Urdang as editorial director, was the first British English dictionary to be typeset from the output from a computer database in a specified format. This meant that every aspect of an entry was handled by a different editor using different forms or templates.
Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary: Cambridge University Press: 2003 [3] 4th (ISBN 9781107619500) 2013 (24.06) 1,856 140,000 British: Collins COBUILD Advanced Dictionary: Collins Cobuild: 1987 10th (ISBN 978-0008444907) 2023 (13.04) 1,920 British: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English: Pearson-Longman: 1978 6th (ISBN 9781447954194 ...
An idiom is a common word or phrase with a figurative, non-literal meaning that is understood culturally and differs from what its composite words' denotations would suggest; i.e. the words together have a meaning that is different from the dictionary definitions of the individual words (although some idioms do retain their literal meanings – see the example "kick the bucket" below).
The last image we have of Patrick Cagey is of his first moments as a free man. He has just walked out of a 30-day drug treatment center in Georgetown, Kentucky, dressed in gym clothes and carrying a Nike duffel bag. The moment reminds his father of Patrick’s graduation from college, and he takes a picture of his son with his cell phone.
The Bank of English totals 650 million running words. [1] Copies of the corpus are held both at HarperCollins Publishers and the University of Birmingham. The version at Birmingham can be accessed for academic research. The Bank of English forms part of the Collins Word Web together with the French, German and Spanish corpora.