Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary 8th edition CD-ROM
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Advanced search
Select the Advanced search tab. This allows you to search for a word in a particular context in the dictionary, for example in definitions or in idioms. It also allows you to look for entries that come from a particular variety of English, that have a particular part of speech, or that have a particular register label (for example informal or slang).
Type the word you want in the Search box on the left. Choose the options you want from the Search in, Search for region, Search for part of speech and Search for register drop-down menus. You don't have choose an option from every menu. Click on the arrow or hit enter. The dictionary entries that match your search options will appear in the Results window. Click on an entry to display it in the main dictionary window.
Cross-references
Cross-references appear in red and underlined. Clicking on one of these words will make the entry for that word display in the main dictionary window.
Pronunciation
To hear the pronunciation of a word, click on the blue and red speaker symbols. The blue speaker symbol gives you British pronunciation (BrE) and the red gives you American pronunciation (NAmE).
Illustrations
There are hundreds of illustrations in the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary 8th edition which will display when you look up a word.
Click on the illustration to see a bigger picture, often showing a group of related words.
When you are looking at a bigger illustration, click on one thing in the illustration to see the dictionary entry for that word.
