Publisher's Synopsis
This major new edition of the acclaimed Collins COBUILD on CD-Rom is now available to PC and Mac users.
With fast and powerful searching across dictionary, grammar, usage and thesaurus, this CD-Rom offers an unrivalled guide to the English language today. It contains the following:
- Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
- Collins COBUILD Guide to English Usage
- Collins COBUILD English Grammar
- 5 million word "Word Bank" of authentic text samples (written and spoken)
- Thesaurus
- Over 68,000 high quality audio pronunciations for headwords, phrases, derived words, inflected forms.
Its special software features include:
- "record and playback" feature so users can compare their own pronunciation with model on the CD-Rom
- Word Bank can be searched to find thousands of examples of words and phrases in use from real English text
- easy-to-use interface
- full-text search over all the content of the CD-Rom
- easy hyperlinking between different components of the CD-Rom
- integration with Microsoft (TM) Word (TM) for quick access
Technical specification:
PC
Operating system: MS Windows 95/98/NT/2000/ME/XP
Processor: Intel 80486 compatible or higher
Disk space: full install 700Mb free hard disk
Sound: Windows-compatible sound card, headphones or speakers
Memory: minimum 16Mb RAM
Mac
Operating system: Mac OS 8.6, 9.0, 9.1or 9.2.2
Memory: minimum 32Mb RAM
Processor: PPC
Disk space: full install 700Mb free hard disk space
Sound: headphones or speakers
