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(OED), the largest dictionary of the English language. The first edition was published by the Oxford University Press beginning in 1884. It was based on material gathered by the London Philological Society and was called the New English Dictionary on Historical Principles (a second title, Oxford English Dictionary, appeared in the volumes published from 1895). By 1929 ten volumes, covering the letters A to Z, had been published and a supplement appeared in 1933. That year a new 13-voIume edition of the dictionary was published. Called the Oxford English Dictionary, it was virtually a facsimile of the first edition. The dictionary has not been reissued since 1933, although a two-volume abridged version—the Compact Edition of the Oxford English Dictionary—has appeared. The first volume of a projected three-volume supplement came out in 1972.
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The Oxford English Dictionary includes all the words in the English literary and spoken language since 1150 and gives a detailed description of their pronunciation and their etymological, semantic, orthographic, and grammatical characteristics. Historical changes in the meaning, spelling, pronunciation, and usage of each word are illustrated by examples, usually citations. The dictionary contains about 500,000 words and includes about 2 million citations from 20,000 works by more than 5,000 authors.
Abridged versions of the dictionary—the Shorter Oxford English Dictionary and the Concise Oxford Dictionary of Current English—are issued regularly.
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Computing- 1Controlled by or connected to another computer or to a network.‘Still, only thirty-one computers were online - that is connected to each other - in 1960.’
- ‘After the thirty seconds, the system would be completely back online and the IMX network would again run for a full year.’
- 1.1Connected to the internet or World Wide Web.
- ‘Also available is an online shopping service that lists recommended foods based on a person's medical history.’
- ‘The free online service is available on the Joburg City website, under e-services.’
- ‘They also say they are more interested in the Internet for online entertainment than other users, according to the study.’
- ‘You can find more information about online education on the internet.’
- ‘Godfrey has also sued several other Internet service providers and online publications.’
adverb
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- 1While so connected or under computer control.‘Once inside, the controls came online as he flicked on a few switches.’
- ‘Moments later the flight control system came online, my HUD flickering into life.’
- ‘Security controls had been back online as well as the little traps they planted through the space station.’
- 1.1With processing of data carried out simultaneously with its production.
- 2In or into operation or existence.‘the town's new high-tech power plant is expected to go online this month’
- ‘the company has additional production capacity coming online later this year’
- ‘The new facility came online this month and expects to ramp up to full production by March.’
- ‘If all goes well, Munton said construction could begin as early as September, with a fully operational plant online in about a year.’
- ‘Air National Guard offices are expected to go online in July.’
- ‘Now that we have reminded them, we expect it to be online shortly.’
- ‘The legwork has been taken out of the planning procedure by a Yorkshire council which has become one of the first authorities in Britain to put the whole process online.’
Shorter Oxford English Dictionary 1985
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