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Tuttle Concise Vietnamese Dictionary is the most up-to-date compact Vietnamese dictionary available today. It is designed for English speakers who are studying the Vietnamese language, traveling to Vietnam, or using the language on a daily basis to interact with Vietnamese speakers. It has both Vietnamese to English and English to Vietnamese sections, with enough depth that it may also be used by Vietnamese speakers who are learning or using English....
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From Geronimo! to gesundheit to haminahamina to holy mackerel, and from abracadabra to zoinks, Mark Dunn and Sergio Aragonés show you interjections like you've never seen them before.
Often thought of as unnecessary verbal fringe or simply linguistic decoration, interjections (ahem, howdy, mamma mia, pshaw, tally-ho, whoop-de-do) may well be the most overlooked part of speech in the English language. ZOUNDS! A Browser's Dictionary of Interjections...
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Have you dreamed of a handsome stranger and felt the pangs of love (or lust)? Do you wake up panicked from being chased by a menacing intruder or from falling from a cliff into darkness? Do you wake up to dreams of sex with an ex, your boss, or a celebrity? Don't be ashamed or alarmed! These dreams are normal and highly symbolic. Learn to decode dream symbols through the steamed-up lenses of our relationships, sexuality, and our human imperative to...
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In day-to-day speech, we use words and phrases without a passing thought as to why we use them or where they come from. Max Cryer changes all that by showing how fascinating the English language really is. Did you know that the former host of Today, Jane Pauley, claims to have coined the term "bad hair day," or that a CBS engineer named Charley Douglass invented the name and use of "canned laughter" for television, or that "cold turkey" as a term...
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A great introduction to the Japanese language for travel, business, traditional learning or fun! This book introduces you to the basics of Japanese, and teaches practical daily conversations and vocabulary. Useful notes and explanations on the Japanese script, pronunciation and accent, greetings and requests, sentence structure, vocabulary, verb conjugations, honorific forms, expressions and etiquette dos and don'ts are included, as well as a useful...
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Written virtually single-handedly over a seven-year period by a revered dean of English letters, Johnson's Dictionary first appeared in 1755. A remarkable monument to the vigor and variety of our language and to the genius of its author, it served as the standard dictionary for more than 150 years and formed the basis for all subsequent English dictionaries. This modern version reduces the original 2,300 pages of definitions and literary examples...
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Originally published in 1919, this book contains a comprehensive and extensively illustrated dictionary of nautical terms. Ansted has included the basic terminology for both the 18th and 19th century, making this book an excellent addition to the bookshelf of anyone with an interest in the subject.
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Consultar el Diccionario de ecuatorianismos con citas puede convertirse en algo más que la respuesta a una necesidad puntual de conocer el significado de una palabra, para ser un espacio lúdico. Como en un gran tablero, uno podría ir de palabra en palabra, de autor en autor, de reflexión en reflexión y finalmente, ojalá, de la apropiación al reconocimiento. Ya que, a fin de cuentas, por qué seguimos haciendo diccionarios en pleno siglo XXI,...
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What would you buy in slop-shop? What would you put in your lumber room? And what on earth does the obliquity of the ecliptic actually mean? This A-Z of Sherlockian Phraseology can help you find out. A handy guide to those "wordy words" and references found within the pages of Arthur Conan Doyle's books featuring the world's only consulting detective, Sherlock Holmes.
This book gives explanations and definitions of the language and references used...
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From the introduction to the Useful Dictionary of English: This is a dictionary for 'slow learners'. There are many individuals who never want to stop learning, but the process for them is a slow one. I do hope that the user-friendly approach in the page layout will be an encouragement to such a group. This is a dictionary for unconfident readers. Many individuals have lost confidence in reading for a variety of reasons. I do hope they will find this...
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Ever wonder where expressions such as mind your p's and q's, chip on his shoulder, living high on the hog, or the whole nine yards exactly mean? This Dictionary of Phrases will help you stop wondering. This dictionary is a collection of expressions that are currently in use. After going through the book, you would know that phrases add to liveliness in conversations. What is a phrase in the first place? A phrase is a sequence of two or more words...
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We see application of science everywhere. Whether we are aware or not, science application plays a big part in our daily lives. While you are reading this page, an important element of optical science is in use. Electricity, for example, is one of the most important science discoveries ever made. As we walk in the public, we see almost everyone carrying a cellular phone. This is an application of electronics & communications technology. To remain...
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Students of English often have difficulties knowing which preposition goes with a particular verb. Do you know which preposition to use with the following verbs: accuse of or for? depend on or at? escape from or off? include in or into? listen to or through? wait for or to? This is where this dictionary will help you. By looking up the verb you will find the preposition, a definition and an example: smile verb smile at turn up the ends of your mouth...
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We're back! That's right. Back and at it again. And there's an unexpected surprise. We have more redundancies, more expressions, and more mixed-up word news.
This isn't a complex grammar guide, but it does cover a lot more ground than the first volume. And I'm willing to bet that you'll learn something from it. You're bound to know some of the words, but you won't know everything and that makes the book worthwhile. I don't know about you, but I'd...
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A phrasal verb is a verb that consists of two or three separate parts: 'come in', 'run away', 'look forward to', etc. With an idiomatic phrasal verb, the meanings of the separate parts tell us little or nothing about the meaning of the whole. For example, students may be fully familiar with the meanings of 'pick' and 'up' as individual words, but this knowledge does not help them when they want to know the idiomatic meaning of 'pick up' in, 'Business...
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This English-Hindi-Dictionary will fulfill the academic and writing requirements of students, researchers, scholars, translators, educationists, and writers. For improved usefulness, 'Words or Terms' have been drawn from literature, science, geography, commerce & business, etc. 'Words or Terms' come tagged with explanatory meaning in Hindi alone but with a sentence in English only, for clear understanding for use in speaking or writing. Terms have...
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