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The Role Of Contemporaneous Dictionaries And Treatises As The Preferred Source Of Ordinary Meaning
The United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit recently reviewed the basic principles that govern how courts construe patent claims. The court clarified that dictionaries and other objective interpretive resources are superior to extrinsic evidence such as expert testimony. This article reveals that the court clarified that courts...
Tags: Court, Dictionary
White papers 2003-01-01
Mobile Content Bits: iPhone Dictionary; Cricket's $40 Data Card; Glu Mobile Honored; Lyris Texts
-- New Oxford American Dictionary For iPhone: iPhone and iPod Touch users can now purchase the New Oxford American Dictionary as an application for $19.99 at the Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) App Store. With more than 250,000 entries, the dictionary is the first of many Oxford dictionaries that Handmark plans...
Tags: 3G Etc, Advertising & Promotion, Apple Inc., Apple iPhone, Card, Companies, Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu, Dictionary, Entertainment, Glu Mobile Inc., Marketing, Marketing Research, Matt Kapko, Mobile, Mobile Adv & Mktg, Mobile Gaming, Technologies
External links 2008-12-09

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New Oxford Dictionary Names 'Unfriend' Word of the Year
The ubiquitous social networking site Facebook becomes further ingrained in the cultural consciousness as "unfriend" is selected by the New Oxford American Dictionary's 2009 Word of the Year. In another sign the social networking behemoth Facebook is infiltrating every part of popular culture, the New Oxford American Dictionary announced ?unfriend?,...
Tags: Microsoft Word, Facebook, social networking
News items 2009-11-17
BBC unveils Dictionary of Man.(British Broadcasting Corp., BBC Worldwide and Bob Geldof come together for television documentary)(Brief article)
CANNES -- BBC, BBC Worldwide and Bob Geldof are joining forces for Dictionary of Man, a unique and ambitious anthropology project to record every human society on Earth. The Dictionary of Man website will be a repository of content to digitally cat CANNES --...
Tags: British Broadcasting Corp., TV
Research articles 2007-05-01
The New Oxford English Dictionary project. (Special Section: Standard Generalized Markup Language)
In 1984, the University of Waterloo in Ontario, Canada, joined forces with Oxford University Press in Oxford, England, to computerize the Oxford English Dictionary OED. The New Oxford English Dictionary Project was funded by the Natural Sciences and In 1984, the University of Waterloo in Ontario, Canada,...
Tags: database, University of Oxford
Research articles 1993-08-01
Nostalgic spell as dictionary decamps.
Byline: Brendan O'Keefe Oct 17, 2006 (The Australian - ABIX via COMTEX) -- The editorial staff of the "Macquarie Dictionary" will move from Macquarie University after 25 years. Work on the first edition of the dictionary began in 1970. The dictionary staff...
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Research articles 2006-10-17
MICROSOFT: Microsoft launches new dictionary.
M2 PRESSWIRE-18 June 1999-MICROSOFT: Microsoft launches new dictionary C1994-99 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:170699 * Encarta World English Dictionary on CD-ROM Is First Newly Written U.S. English Language Dictionary Within the Past 30 Years REDMOND, Wash. -- The last time...
Tags: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc., Encarta.com, Microsoft Corp.
Research articles 1999-06-18
Sample Dictionary Editor Cover Letter
Use this template as a cover letter to apply for the post of dictionary editor. The applicant in this dictionary editor cover letter acknowledges her training and experience researching information about words that make up language and writes and reviewing the definitions for publication in a dictionary. Dictionary editor cover...
Tags: Letter, Job Bank USA, Dictionary Editor, Recruitment & Selection, Human Resources, Workforce Management
Tools & templates 2009-01-01
Merriam-Webster's Primary Dictionary
Merriam-Webster's Primary Dictionary Ruth Heller, illustrator Merriam-Webster Inc. PO Box 281, Springfield, MA 01102 0877791740 $16.95 www.m-w.com Merriam-Webster's Primary Dictionary is an illustrated dictionary for young readers ages 4-7. Filled with nearly 1,000 entries with age-appropriate definitions, uses in context, brief histories of the word's...
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Research articles 2005-06-01
Electronic medical dictionary offers audio pronunciations, three-way search tool.(Stedman's Electronic Medical Dictionary v.5.0 )(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
A new electronic medical dictionary that features new sound technology with pronunciation of 35,000 difficult terms and three-way search capabilities is now available from Lippincott Williams & Wilkins. The Stedman's Electronic Medical Dictionary v.5.0 contains over 102,000 terms, including 12,000 new to this...
Tags: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins Inc.
Research articles 2000-12-01
Google Launches Its Own Dictionary
Google (NSDQ: GOOG) is entering yet another online business. The company has launched its own dictionary, which features authoritative definitions of terms, along with example sentences, related phrases, and an aggregation of various others definitions from around the web mostly from Wikipedia and a Princeton University database. No advertising...
Tags: Google Inc., Wiki, Cloud Computing, Blogging, Online Communications, Internet, Media & Publishing, Search, Companies, Google, Joseph Tartakoff
External links 2009-12-04
Ten years on, dictionary shows a changed world of fashion
PARIS AFP — A French publisher rolled out its latest world dictionary of fashion, a glossy and weighty tome that shows just how much the industry has changed since the first edition back in 1994. The International Dictionary of Fashion provides over 600 pages of dense information running from...
Tags: Agence France-Presse, Globalization, Paris, Strategy
Research articles 2005-01-18
Shorter OED Now Available on CD-ROM. (New Books).(The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary )(Brief Article)
Oxford University Press has announced that the latest edition of The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary is now available on CDROM (ISBN: 0-1 9-86061 3-3; $1 09.95). This reference contains the entire contents of the two-volume dictionary in a completely cross-referenced database. According to the...
Tags: Books, CD-ROM, Databases, HARDWARE, SOFTWARE, Storage, University of Oxford
Research articles 2003-05-01
The Pocket Oxford Spanish Dictionary: Spanish-English/English-Spanish
The Pocket Oxford Spanish Dictionary: Spanish-English/English-Spanish. Ed. by CAROL STYLES CARVAJAL and JANE HORWOOD. Oxford, New York, and Madrid: Oxford University Press. 1997. 959 pp. 9.99 [pounds sterling].This easy-to-use format dictionary has been based on the substantial Oxford Spanish Dictionary (1994). Aimed at students and those who need a quick...
Tags: English, Oxford, Oxford University Press
Research articles 1999-01-01
Merriam-Webster's Medical Audio Dictionary
Merriam-Webster's Medical Audio Dictionary. A comprehensive CD-ROM reference tool, this dictionary offers easy-to-understand definitions, audio pronunciations, and more than 750 color illustrations of today's most widely used health care terms, abbreviations, and medical names to users on both PC and Macintosh. The dictionary has more than 57,000 entries and is...
Tags: Merriam-Webster Inc.
Research articles 1999-04-01
Merriam-Webster Adds 'Wi-Fi' to Collegiate Dictionary
Wireless News 11-06-2005 Merriam-Webster Adds 'Wi-Fi' to Collegiate Dictionary WIRELESS NEWS-November 6, 2005-Merriam-Webster Adds 'Wi-Fi' to Collegiate Dictionary C2005 10Meters - http://www.10meters.com Wi-Fi is everywhere these days, and now, you can even find it in Merriam-Webster....
Tags: Merriam-Webster Inc.
Research articles 2005-11-06
Routledge German Technical Dictionary/Universal-Worterbuch Der Technik Englisch. (book reviews)
1997. London, England, and New York, NY: Routledge. [ISBN 0-415-13360-2. $330.00 (CD-ROM).] The new online Routledge German technical dictionary and Routledge French technical dictionary are much more than just dictionaries: They present a completely new approach for technical translators and linguists to access information. In...
Tags: Routledge
Research articles 1998-05-01
Routledge French Technical Dictionary/Dictionnaire Technique Anglais. (book reviews)
1997. London, England, and New York, NY: Routledge. [ISBN 0-415-13346-7. $330.00 (CD-ROM).] The new online Routledge German technical dictionary and Routledge French technical dictionary are much more than just dictionaries: They present a completely new approach for technical translators and linguists to access information. In...
Tags: Routledge
Research articles 1998-05-01
Historical Dictionary of African American Cinema
Historical Dictionary of African American Cinema S. Torriano Berry and Venise T Berry. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow, 2007. Halle Berry and Denzel Washington, clutching their Oscars, peer from the glossy cover of the Historical Dictionary of African American Cinema, the fifteenth book in Scarecrow Press's Historical Dictionary of Literature and Arts...
Tags: Scarecrow Press Inc.
Research articles 2007-09-01
Cyber Dictionary: Your Guide to the Wired World. - book reviews
We know what you're thinking: If it's a dictionary on computer terminology, it's got to be the most migraine-inducing tome on Earth. And yet we're genuinely enthusiastic about Cyber Dictionary: Your Guide to the Wired World (Knowledge Exchange LLC, $17.95 paper).
Tags: Wired Inc.
Research articles 1997-07-01
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