- Paperback: 960 pages
- Publisher: Merriam-Webster Inc; 1 edition (Jan 1 2012)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0877796408
- ISBN-13: 978-0877796404
- Product Dimensions: 23.2 x 16.5 x 4.5 cm
- Shipping Weight: 1.2 Kg
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Product Description
Product Description
Two essential language references integrated into one handy trade paperback volume. • Nearly 60,000 alphabetical dictionary entries. • More than 13,000 thesaurus entries including extensive synonym lists. • Clear and concise word guidance including abundant example phrases • Based on the best-selling Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary, Eleventh Edition
About the Author
Les Hewitt, coauthor of The Power of Focus is an international workshop facilitator and popular motivational speaker. He founded The Achievers Coaching Program in Calgary, Alberta, Canada, which now includes 450 training programs operating in the U.S., Canada and the U.K. He is an active member of the North Calgary Community Church.
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3.8 out of 5 stars (19 customer reviews)
59 of 60 people found the following review helpful
3.0 out of 5 stars
Okay. Limited as a dictionary and as a thesaurus., Jan 2 2010
By Quadradox - Published on Amazon.com
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The other reviewers appear to address the printed version rather than the Kindle-specific version. I am focusing on the Kindle Application.Strengths -- easily used under Kindle platform, terse, usually is clear in distinguishing parts of speech, and it can be used as the default dictionary.
Weaknesses
1. Definitions are not necessarily any more complete than those from the New Oxford American Dictionary(already built-in on Kindle). Several that I used tonight were less so.
2. Definitions for one part of speech are often dependent on another definition listed for another part of speech (a weakness of many dictionaries that is annoying for more complex or unfamiliar words)
----Simple example: the word anger is both a noun and a verb, Thus they define the verb form as "to make angry".
3. Thesaurus component is okay and gives additional ideas for the verb "anger". However antonyms are very limited if the purpose is to use this as a writing resource. Very few choices.
----For example: antonyms for anger (verb) were delight, gratify and please. But other common options are missing such as calm, sooth, pacify. One would have to keep browsing and unless you set this as the default, you keep ending up in another dictionary when trying to do that.
4. Word Origins are sometimes given, mostly abbreviated and with less detail than in Kindle's Default Dictionary.
I have not compared word counts. Sheer mass of definitions is a misleading index of quality.
34 of 40 people found the following review helpful
1.0 out of 5 stars
A Review of the Kindle for PC version, Jun 30 2010
By Robert Winegar "Bob Winegar" - Published on Amazon.com
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Don't buy it !Believe it or not, there is no way to go directly to the word you are interested in; or even directly to the beginning of the section containing its starting letter !
8 of 8 people found the following review helpful
1.0 out of 5 stars
Missing a lot for its size, Jan 17 2011
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This review is from: Merriam-Webster's Dictionary and Thesaurus (Paperback)
I have been using a Webster's dictionary daily when solving crossword puzzles.I ordered this one as a replacement and I am totally disappointed in its amazing
lack of content. This Webester'[[ASIN:0877798095 Merriam-Webster's Collegiate
Dictionary, 11th Edition thumb-notched with Win/Mac CD-ROM and Online
Subscription]]s dictionary is missing an alphabet table for Greek, Arabic, and
English for example, and it is missing an currency table for countries around
the world. Also it is missing countries and states with capitals and population
information. Also it is missing famous people and pictures. Finally the size
is much larger then I expected.
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