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The Oxford Student's Dictionary is a corpus-based dictionary for students using English to study other subjects. It covers over 52,000 words, phrases, and meanings in British and American English, used in general and academic English. It also incorporates curricular vocabulary, and over 30,000 example sentences to show how words are used. This new edition includes 500 new words, including e-ticket, webinar, and HDTV.

The curricular vocabulary includes subjects such as Art, Biology, Business Studies, Computing, Geography, History, Literature, Mathematics, Music, Science, Sport, Travel and Tourism, and much more. The curricular vocabulary is labelled, showing students the subject that uses the word.

Academic Word List words are clearly marked, and the Reference Pages include the full list, as well as tips for students on using the Academic Word List to improve their writing.

The dictionary identifies the 3,000 most important words to know in general English (the Oxford 3000(TM)). Each Oxford 3000(TM) word has a keyword entry, which often includes additional information (synonyms, opposites) to help students learn related words.

Additional information shown in blue boxes helps students build vocabulary and use words correctly. These include Collocations and Patterns boxes, Related Vocabulary boxes, and Thesaurus boxes.

Scientific and technical processes can be difficult to understand and to describe. The 200+ illustrations and diagrams make it easier, clearly showing processes such as the carbon cycle, the structure of the skin, the earth's atmosphere, and water purification.

40 Reference Pages include information on using the dictionary for CLIL, practice for IELTS, improving writing skills with the Academic Word List, interpreting graphs, the language of literary criticism, the periodic table of contents, and much more.

Students can use the CD-ROM to search the complete A-Z dictionary and illustrations. They can hear headwords pronounced