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Oxford Russian Dictionary. The Oxford Russian Dictionary is a Russian–English and English–Russian bilingual dictionary published by Oxford University Press. It is one of the largest such dictionaries by termbase. The dictionary had several editions over the years, edited by Boris Unbegaun, Paul Falla, Marcus Wheeler, Colin Howlett and Della ...
Multitran is an editable Russian multilingual online dictionary launched on 1 April 2001. The English–Russian–English dictionary contains over four million entries, while the total database has about eight million entries. [1] The dictionary has a function for reporting translation errors for registered users.
Yandex Translate (Russian: Яндекс Переводчик, romanized: Yandeks Perevodchik) is a web service provided by Yandex, intended for the translation of web pages into another language. The service uses a self-learning statistical machine translation, [3] developed by Yandex. [4] The system constructs the dictionary of single-word ...
This is a comparison of English dictionaries, which are dictionaries about the language of English.The dictionaries listed here are categorized into "full-size" dictionaries (which extensively cover the language, and are targeted to native speakers), "collegiate" (which are smaller, and often contain other biographical or geographical information useful to college students), and "learner's ...
English language. Free On-line Dictionary of Computing. Logos Dictionary free online with additional premium content. Online Etymology Dictionary. Urban Dictionary a user-supplied "dictionary" of slang. WordNet word database. Wordnik. Wordweb free and premium online English thesaurus and dictionary for Windows.
Balalaika [3] (Russian: балала́йка, [bəlɐˈlajkə]) A triangle-shaped mandolin -like musical instrument with three strings. Balaclava (Russian: Балаклава) (Tatar origin) A knitted hat that covers the face, also known as a ski mask in the US and elsewhere. First used in the British army during the Crimean war of 1853–56.
Although Russian жид is equivalent to Czech: žid, English: jew; while Russian: еврей corresponds to Czech: hebrejci and English: hebrew, the first form (widely used in Russian literature through the 19th century (Lermontov, Gogol et al.)) was later considered an expletive with a tinge of antisemitism. To ensure "political correctness ...
The immediate predecessor of this dictionary was the Explanatory Dictionary of the Russian Language under the editorship of academician Dmitry Ushakov (1873–1942). The last, 4th volume of this edition was signed for printing on December 3, 1940 – half a year before the Great Patriotic War of the Soviet Union with the Nazi Germany began.