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Completely updated to include all the latest vocabulary, this fourth edition of the Concise Oxford Spanish Dictionary contains coverage of over 175,000 words and phrases, and 240,000 translations. It includes a comprehensive correspondence guide with sample letters, emails, and CVs, plus fun and informative cultural notes on life and living in the Spanish-speaking world. This new edition also features new sections on Spanish as used around the world, false friends and Spanglish, as well as an entirely new internet section helping with everyday online activities from booking tickets to banking online. The Concise Oxford Spanish Dictionary is easy to use, with a clear layout featuring a two-colour text design and printed thumb tabs for quick reference.

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A major new edition of the trusted, bestselling, comprehensive Oxford School Dictionary with new curriculum support. This fantastic new edition will boost your children's vocabulary with new words and meanings from across the curriculum. A helpful new spelling, grammar and punctuation section is included to enhance language skills and bring the dictionary up to date. What makes it the best? It is uniquely powered by the Oxford Children's Corpus, the largest bank of children's language in English, so you can be confident that all entries are clearly written in child-friendly language that children actually understand. Each example is perfectly age-appropriate, making it easy and enjoyable for every child to use. New for this edition is a robust supplement on spelling, grammar and punctuation, giving targeted help with the tricky bits, making this dictionary the perfect tool to support children in their journey to become good readers and writers. As usual, it has been extensively trialled with schools, so you can be sure it is still the best dictionary for your children, in a handy pocket-sized format. Further help with writing skills is available in the updated new edition of the companion Oxford School Thesaurus. Looking for great word activities to match this dictionary? Find fun downloadable activities, puzzles, and word games at www.oxforddictionaries.com/schools

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With a clear, colour layout to make it easy to navigate, the book is in two parts. The first part is a reference section of simple rules, tips, and examples to help students spell, punctuate, and write correctly in school, in exams, and at home. This divides into three sections - Spelling, Punctuation, and Grammar. The second part is an alphabetical word list of common tricky words, with inflections, but no meanings. This list highlights, using analysis from the Oxford Children's Corpus, words that are most frequently misspelt by this age group, to target and rectify these common mistakes. There are helpful tips to guide the user around the alphabetical list to the word they are looking for, and helpful notes at key words to aid correct spellings. It will be a valuable resource for preparation for students taking exams with increased focus on accurate spelling and grammar. It will be a user-friendly resource for pupils to correct their own spellings and improve their spelling techniques and grammar. The accessible format will also provide an invaluable quick guide for spelling, punctuation marks, and grammar rules for teachers and parents as well.

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Bailli re's Midwives' Dictionary is the dictionary of choice for student midwives. The 11th edition of this established and well-respected dictionary has been thoroughly revised and updated. Comprehensive antenatal tests and investigations Infertility terminology and techniques Woman-friendly definitions Useful appendices Main entries increased, for ease of searching New terms for recent tests and investigations Mainly new artwork to update old-fashioned illustrations Genetic advances Online ancillaries: spellchecker, Word of the Day, weblinks.

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The home of trusted Jamaican dictionaries and thesauruses for school use.

Collins Jamaican School Dictionary has been specially developed in association with teachers in Jamaica to ensure it meets the needs of students in Jamaican schools.

This dictionary  which is fully up to date  provides coverage of vocabulary from all curriculum subjects to ensure students have the language they need at their fingertips.
It provides guidance on grammar and punctuation, and includes a guide to spelling that covers key spelling rules, guidance on commonly confused and misspelled words and help with learning how to spell.
The social studies section provides essential information on the world around us, with key facts and maps.

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The Oxford Junior Thesaurus is no longer available, but we have some great alternatives for children aged 7+ and for Key Stage 2 support. All of our thesauruses for children are developed using a rigorous research programme and informed by the evolving language children use today. We think you might like: Oxford Primary Illustrated Thesaurus (9780192768469) A colourful new thesaurus with new and up-to-date curriculum content, lively illustrations and photographs to keep children engaged, and alternatives for overused words, fun word activities and tips to support project work and creative writing. Oxford Primary Thesaurus (9780192767172) A major new edition of our bestselling thesaurus for primary children with thousands of synonyms to broaden vocabulary, example sentences from children's favourite authors showing how to use different words in context, and writing tips and word webs to support and develop writing skills. With its fresh new look, the Oxford Junior Thesaurus gives children starting KS2 the best writing support. It contains entries in alphabetical order, with thousands of imaginative synonyms with supporting example sentences. Many of them are age-appropriate citations from well-known children's authors, such as Dick King-Smith, Narinder Dhami, Jacqueline Wilson, and Roald Dahl. They show the words actually in use, and will inspire budding writers to use language more effectively and independently. Tinted panels provide more help for better writing with related words on various topics and alternatives for overused words. This is powered by the Oxford Children's Corpus, a unique electronic database of millions of words of writing for children. Extra material levelled to the curriculum for this age include tips for spelling success, punctuation, simple grammar, character and setting vocabulary, special features such as Top 10 Tips for Writing Stories, and help with letter-writing including text messages. Navigation is made easy with the guide words, and the full alphabet on every page with a coloured tab on the letter of the page. It is the ideal companion to the Oxford Junior Dictionary. For additional fun, word games, puzzles, and activities, go online to the www.oxforddictionaries,com/schools website.

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The home of trusted Caribbean dictionaries and thesauruses for school use.

Collins Student's Dictionary for the Caribbean is designed especially for Caribbean Students, offering up-to-date coverage of today's language. It also features a full-length Unique Survival Guide paying particular attention to the CXC syllabus, helping students write clearly and effectively.

This unique dictionary has been compiled with constant reference to the Bank of English, ensuring the dictionary accurately reflects English as it is used today in a way that is most helpful to the dictionary user.

The dictionary includes a Unique Survival Guide developed exclusively for Caribbean students, addressing key aspects in the CXC syllabus including errors commonly made in exams. It features tips on essay-writing, exams, grammar, letter & CV-writing and more, helping students write effectively with confidence.

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The home of trusted Spanish dictionaries and thesauruses for school use.

The ideal handy Spanish reference for secondary school students looking for a dictionary that is modern, up-to-date, clear and easy to use. Developed for home study, and to be used in the classroom.

Especially designed for KS3 school students, and is ideal in the classroom, at home and during exams.

• It contains all the words and phrases students will need, with key curriculum words highlighted, all essential phrases covered, and thousands of examples to show how Spanish is really used.
• The clear layout and alphabet tabs down the side of each page lead the students to the information they need quickly and without fuss. All main translations are underlined to help users go straight to the answer they are looking for.
• The dictionary includes language tips and culture notes throughout the text.
• Soy, eres, es Spanish verbs made easy! Each verb on the Spanish side of the dictionary is cross-referred to a comprehensive verb guide, with full conjugations and example phrases showing the verb used in context.

Also available in French and German.

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The Oxford Primary Thesaurus"" is specially written to encourage users aged 8+ to find new or alternative words quickly and easily. The headwords are in colour and the design is clear and accessible with the alphabet and virtual thumb tabs on every page. With panels giving extra vocabulary, antonyms, idiomatic phrases, the Thesaurus is a key tool for young writers.

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Baillière's Dictionary for Nurses and Health Care Workers remains the nursing dictionary of choice throughout the world! The latest edition of this authoritative paperback has been thoroughly revised and updated to meet the needs of nurses and health care workers in a variety of clinical settings. Published for the first time in full colour, the comprehensive dictionary entries are supplemented by common abbreviations, prefixes, suffixes and roots, together with units of measurement and tables of normal values. Other helpful appendices include nutrition, resuscitation, first aid, medicines control, the legal and professional framework of nursing, professional standards of practice and behaviour, immunization and vaccinations, prevention and control of infection, revalidation, and clinical supervision. User friendly text presented in a handy pocket size format Suitable for a variety of settings raging from the high-tech high-dependency environment to primary care and community settings Clear artwork helps further clarify terms and difficult concepts Includes common abbreviations, prefixes, suffixes and roots, together with units of measurement and normal values Helpful appendices cover nutrition, resuscitation, first aid, medicines control, immunization and vaccinations, and prevention and control of infection Ideal for all newcomers to the clinical and healthcare environment! Now published in full-colour throughout! Expanded number of entries to aid comprehensiveness Includes the latest information on revalidation, the legal and professional framework of nursing, professional standards of practice and behaviour, and clinical supervision

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This best-selling dictionary is the most comprehensive and up to date of its kind, containing over 6,000 entries on all aspects of zoology. Complemented by numerous illustrations, it includes terms from the areas of ecology, animal behaviour, evolution, earth history, zoogeography, genetics, and physiology and provides full taxonomic coverage of arthropods, other invertebrates, fish, reptiles, amphibians, birds, and mammals. The fourth edition has been fully revised and updated and includes many new entries, for example, activational effects of hormones, aqueous humour, deprivation studies, immunization, and Psocoptera. It also features new terms from anatomy and physiology, biomechanics, neurophysiology, immunology, and evolutionary development. Recommended web links can be accessed via the Dictionary of Zoology companion website and provide valuable extra information by directing you to useful online resources and the homepages of relevant organizations. Detailed appendices include a list of endangered animals, the universal genetic code, the geologic time scale, SI units, and a taxonomic classification scheme based on the three-domain taxonomic system. Wide-ranging, authoritative, and with jargon-free definitions, this dictionary is an indispensable reference tool for students and teachers of zoology, biological sciences, and biomedical sciences, and a valuable resource for naturalists and anyone with an interest in animals.

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Michael Allaby has written many books on environmental science and especially on climatology and meteorology. He is the General Editor of several Oxford dictionaries, including the Dictionaries of Geology and Earth Sciences, Ecology, Plant Sciences, and Environment and Conservation.

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The number 1 Spanish dictionary for GCSE success.

Fully updated with new approved word lists for GCSE study and examinations.

An easy-reference Spanish to English and English to Spanish dictionary with up-to-date translations for current vocabulary, for example, plant-based, AI, diversidad and neurodivergente. Key GCSE curriculum words are highlighted, students are given help with Spanish pronunciation and there is a practical, fun supplement covering key topic areas. This is the ideal dictionary for students of Spanish, and especially for those aiming for exam success.

Designed for learners of Spanish, whether you are studying for exams at school, in an evening class, for business or to go on holiday to Spain. Covering everyday Spanish and English, with key curriculum words and expressions highlighted to help with exam preparation. Detailed information given for key Spanish verbs and verb forms, plus Spanish verbs cross-referred to comprehensive verb tables, helping you find all the Spanish verb forms you need. Clear and concise language notes provide information on common errors and confusing words, while interesting notes explain cultural differences.

The full-colour supplement offers students essential vocabulary and phrases based on topics that they will find useful, for example, communication, jobs and careers, global issues, and so on. Helpful information on Spanish sounds and pronunciation is provided, with free audio and video available to access online at www.collins.co.uk/easylearningresources.