This new edition has been fully expanded to include over 800 new headwords with particular attention paid to money, computing and word processing terminology, sport and leisure, and environmental terms and professions. Updated for 2004 with over 800 new entries covering: money (with value of euro compared with old currency and, colloquial survival of 'centime' in the new currency system); computing and word processing (smart card, telephone card, text messaging, gigabyte); environmental terms (ozone layer, oil slick), professions (astronomer, graphic designer etc), sport and leisure (hiking, fitness, lifeguard), even includes SARS. Its features include: new design to increase clarity of layout, 2 colour with virtual alphabet tabs; perfect for individual use as a quick reference tool or extended classroom work; links to NLS modern languages curriculum - all syllabus words included; includes French in North America and Caribbean geographical terms; and colour headwords, phrases, verb tables and virtual alphabet tabs. Nicholas Rollin is an experienced editor of bilingual dictionaries. Most recently he has been project manager for the "Oxford Spanish Dictionary" (Academic, 2003). He is also the Chief editor of the "Oxford Study Spanish Dictionary" and "Oxford School French Dictionary" new editions 2004.

 

There are 640 pages in this book. It is a dictionary. A dictionary is a single-volume or multivolume reference work containing brief explanatory entries for terms and topics related to a specific subject or field of inquiry, usually arranged alphabetically (example: Dictionary of Neuropsychology). The entries in a dictionary are usually shorter than those contained in an encyclopedia on the same subject, but the word "dictionary" is often used in the titles of works that should more appropriately be called encyclopedias (example: Dictionary of the Middle Ages in 13 volumes). This book was published 2004 by Oxford University Press .