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Find the right word to enrich communication. Alphabetical lists include more than 340,000 synonyms, antonyms, related and contrasted words, and idioms. Brief definitions describe the meanings shared by synonyms.
Customer Reviews:
A good investment.......2007-08-08
This thesaurus is very helpful. You will be able to find the word you're looking for about 8-9 times out of 10, which is not bad at all. I am an English major and therefore use my thesaurus quite often and I give it a thumbs up. The price is reasonable. The look is professional. It's a great buy!
Merriam -Webster Collegiate Thesaurus.......2007-07-30
This was a gift for someone that is a senior in highschool.They loved it and it will take them through adulthood.
Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Thesaurus.......2007-05-06
I purchased this reference book at the same time I purchased Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary thinking these books would compliment each other and I was absolutely correct !!! I thought this would be a reference book that would collect dust on the bookshelf but that isn't the case. I have used this reference book more than I thought I would and it has come in handy many times now. You can never have enough reference books in your own private library and this is definitely a book that can only inhance your reference book section of your library. I am very pleased with this purchase and the only thing I regret is not purchasing this book much sooner !!!
good reference.......2007-02-20
this is a very useful especially if you need to enrich your vocabulary.
useful tool of reference but..........2005-12-20
I think the title should be changed to 'Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms'. The word thesaurus used here is unsuitable given that the Theseus of Greek myths was neither a great writer, philologist, lexographer or anything else related to dictionaries. This name is not used for such dictionaries in other western european languages. so why use it in English?
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The 1998 10th edition of Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary marks the 100th anniversary of this distinguished and popular reference standard, and this is more than just an interesting statistic--it means that Merriam-Webster brings years of experience and reams of citation files to the creation of this latest edition. Improving on their last dictionary, they've added more than 100 pictorial illustrations and supplemented the synonym paragraphs with examples. Along with the English dictionary, which forms the heart of the reference, the editors at Merriam-Webster have included a brief introduction to the English language and a history of the English dictionary, a guide to pronunciation, and a series of appendices that include chemical element abbreviations and symbols, foreign words and phrases, extensive sections with biographical and geographical names, signs and symbols, and a handbook of style.
But getting back to the book itself--it's impressively comprehensive for a collegiate dictionary, with more than 215,000 definitions. Each item includes a pithy wealth of information, with first usage date, etymology, and pronunciation, and clear, precise definitions. In addition, there are often usage notes, synonym cross-references, illustrative quotations, variant spellings and pronunciations, regional labels, and information on capitalization, function, and inflections. Then there are the extra touches. Under bible, for example, there's a chart detailing books of the Old Testament, Jewish Scripture, Protestant apocrypha, and books of the New Testament. Under months is a table listing the months of the principal calendars--Gregorian, Jewish, and Islamic. And wonderful line drawings illustrate terms such as mackerel, lyrebird, hedgehog, and the ancient Celtic stringed instrument known as a crowd. All this makes it a valuable reference--detailed enough for editors and writers, accessible enough for students and casual definition seekers, updated with the new vocabulary of technology, and rigorous enough for the linguistic perfectionists. --Stephanie Gold
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Two products in one the complete Collegiate Dictionary, Eleventh Edition and the Collegiate Thesaurus. 21 search options and more than 1,300 illustrations. Full text fits on most hard drives for extra convenience.
Customer Reviews:
Shortcomings.......2007-09-18
This product really needs the addition of an audio pronouncing feature, in our opinion. Without this feature, correct pronouncing is quite difficult.
Great Dictionary.......2007-04-17
I have been using a Merriam-Webster dictionary for years. When I bought a new computer my old software needed replacing. I bought a Dictionary by Random House and was very disappointed. It did not even show how to hyphenate words. I then bought the Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary and love it. It works like it is supposed to and has the features I need.
Barely misses perfection.......2007-04-03
If you're fed up with fumbling even a collegiate-sized or paperback book on your lap just to quickly look up a definition, synonym or spelling, you'll love this electronic dictionary/thesaurus, which conveniently presents all that right on the computer screen where you're already working.
But unfortunately, you'll have to minimize your current program to get to the desktop icon for this program, since it offers no way to pop it up from an icon in the tray -- its worst shortcoming, in my view.
The only way to have it immediately available is by running it, then minimizing it to the taskbar, where it consumes space along with other programs you may already have minimized there. I suppose that's really a minor quibble, but it bugs me greatly because there's no reason beyond lazy programming that it couldn't have offered a tray icon option.
The two exceptions to that are if you're writing in MS Word or Corel's WordPerfect, where macros can be installed as buttons, allowing you to highlight a word and pop it up in the dictionary/thesaurus by clicking that button.
But that's a sadly limited use of a major program's pop-up capability, which with a little extra programming could have been expanded to include virtually any selected word on the screen, as is possible with some other electronic dictionaries.
That notwithstanding, the program offers the same robust selection of definitions and synonyms you'll find in the printed Merriam-Webster Collegiate, but with a number of easily clickable search options for finding them. They're also presented in basically the same excellent format Merriam-Webster uses in its printed versions.
If you can't find a suitable word in the 225,000 definitions and 340,000 synonyms and related words available in this program, you're probably looking for something that'll drive whoever's reading what you're writing to a dictionary.
Selecting the dictionary or thesaurus is as quick and easy as clicking on either from a drop-down menu prominently at the top of the program -- and you can set either as the default on startup.
Other configuration preferences are sparsely limited to changing text size/color and background color, and setting a default for any of the 19 search "types."
To look up a word, you can select from three tabbed options:
Basic Searches (Entry word is...): You'd likely use this most. As soon as you enter the first letter a list pops up in a lower window with everything beginning with that letter. As you type additional letters, you increasingly drill down to words nearer what you're looking for, ending with your word highlighted when you type the final letter. This is basically exactly the same routine as when you use the "Find" feature of any Windows help program -- and sure beats flipping through pages of a book.
Advanced Searches: This is a Boolean thing using AND, OR, NOT and some possible parenthetical expressions. I found it to be mostly an advanced piece of uselessness.
Browse: This is basically like thumbing through a printed dictionary starting at some letter and functions exactly the same as drilling down through the letters of a word using the Basic search feature. But -- and that's a big BUT -- its two options of searching for either the beginning or ending of a word can be a lifesaver when you have no idea how to begin spelling that word. For example: Try looking up "ptarmigan" under "T" or "mnemonic" under "N." You'll get nowhere fast on either. But search for the fairly obvious endings and sooner than later you'll find those words.
One other quibble I have with this program is that it refuses to recognize my USB mouse wheel for scrolling through the word lists. But I've learned to be content with the side slider.
Its few shortcomings aside, at Amazon's price this program's a world-class bargain, functions flawlessly for what it's intended and hands down beats wrestling with a book.
Perfect -- almost!.......2007-03-16
This is a can't -live-without- it reference product. It's got all sorts of ways to help the writer or speaker. Is it Antartic or Antarctic? Athelete or Athlete? What's a four letter word synonym for morose? What is the correct pronouncement of herb? Whet? What rhymes with storage? There are at least 15 valuable word tools in this relatively inexpensive program. I would pay twice the price.
That said, I had difficulty installing the software on my iMac G5 running O.S. 10.4. I ordered the CD (so glad I did) and everything was a snap except ... no pronunciation unless the CD was inserted. This is fixable, but not without cnversations with M-W. And their instructions didn't work well. PCs? I couldn't say. What the hell -- take a chance.
Historical Use of this Dictionary.......2007-02-24
This edition of the Webster's Dictionaray was recommended to me when I began writing historical fiction. Many of the entries have a note giving the year the word was first used. I had previously used an Oxford English Dictionary, which does not give the year of origin. The nice thing about the Oxford, however, is that it contains many words used in England along with English, rather than American, spellings.
This would also be a useful dictionary for the high school student. It has a presentation page making it a nice gift for students.
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Merriam-Webster Hardback / Collegiate Dictionary/Thesaurus, 7-1/2"x101/2, Burgundy / MER12 / Attractive burgundy leather-look versions of Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, Eleventh Edition and Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Thesaurus in a matching slipcase. The dictionary has more than 225,000 definitions and 10,000 new words and meanings. The thesaurus has over 305,000 synonyms. Includes Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary & Thesaurus, Electronic Edition (Win/Mac CD-ROM) and a free one-year subscription to the new Collegiate Web site. / Merriam-Webster Gift Set Collegiate Dict/Thesaurus / Dictionaries / Books / General Office Supplies / Books / Dictionaries / Sold as 1 EA / Office Supplies
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Attractive burgundy leather-look, thumb-notched versions of Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, 10th Edition, and Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Thesaurus in a matching slip case. The dictionary is updated annually, and the current 2001 copyright gives you up-to-date coverage of the words you need today. The dictionary contains more than 215,000 clear and precise definitions, 700 illustrations and separate sections for geographical and biographical names, as well as a Handbook of Style. Over 55 million copies of the dictionary have been sold spanning a time period of over 100 years. The thesaurus is in alphabetical format, and includes more than 340,000 synonyms, antonyms, related and contrasted words, and idioms. Brief definitions describe the meanings shared by synonyms. The set is an elegant and classy gift!
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No Home Should Be Without One.......2000-06-18
In an age where we depend on computer spell check, it's easy to overlook the convenience and usefulness of having this set at your finger tips. All to often, we settle for the first word that comes to mind because we just can't remember that one perfect adjective that would describe exactly what we want to say.
Mirriam Webster's set to the rescue! Not only can I find the right word, I have the resources to understand that word's origins, how to correctly use it in a sentence and where it needs to be divided, if necessary.
The leather-like binding looks impressive on my desk and it makes pretty good bedtime reading when I'm hungry for abstract information.
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Newbery Medal-winning author Jerry Spinelli tells a story of peer pressure so foul, so horrifying, that Wringer should be shelved along with Robert Cormier's The Chocolate War. Nine-year-old Palmer dreads his upcoming 10th birthday. In his town, when boys are 10 years old they become "wringers," the boys who wring the necks of wounded pigeons at the annual Pigeon Day shoot. Palmer is sickened by the whole event. To make matters worse, his new buddies--Beans, Mutto, and Henry--have just discovered that Palmer has been hiding a pet pigeon in his room. What will Palmer do? Will he become a wringer to save face, or will he follow his heart? Wringer will appeal to preteens and younger teens who love to read suspenseful books on their own, but it would also be a good story to read aloud to spark discussion about the perils and nuances of peer pressure.
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Palmer LaRue is running out of birthdays. For as long as he can remember, he's dreaded the day he turns ten -- the day he'll take his place beside all the other ten-year-old boys in town, the day he'll be a wringer. But Palmer doesn't want to be a wringer. It's one of the first things he learned about himself and it's one of the biggest things he has to hide. In Palmer's town being a wringer is an honor, a tradition passed down from father to son. Palmer can't stop himself from being a wringer just like he can't stop himself from growing one year older, just like he can't stand up to a whole town -- right? Newbery Medal winner Jerry Spinelli's most powerful novel yet is a gripping tale of how one boy learns how not to be afraid.
Customer Reviews:
Wringer.......2007-07-22
I think that Wringer, by Jerry Spinelli, is a captivating, moving and powerful book. I stayed up until midnight to finish this book. I found Spinelli's characters, situations, and dialog believable, though this book may be for more mature audiences than suggested. I think the Newbery Medal on Wringer is well earned.
A child's first complex experience with animal rights.......2007-06-10
Wringer by Jerry Spinelli
Spinelli, in his usual unique prose that captures the essence and fears of childhood, tackles the troubling subject of animal rights (in the form of a city-wide pigeon shoot and the ten-year-old boys' job to wring the necks of the downed birds), as well as the subject of growing up. Palmer, horrified at a young age by the city's tradition, lives in fear of the day when he will become a wringer. Meanwhile, he faces the pressure from his parents (his father is a prize-winning shooter), and more importantly from his peers: a gang of cruel boys that somehow include him, but with whom he constantly lives in fear of being rejected. Palmer befriends a pigeon. The plot seems very familiar and unoriginal, but it is treated with such humanity that it has a distinct life of its own. Palmer, as an animal rights aware child, is someone whom I can identify with. He faces the fears and issues of a moral dilemma that the rest of his community seems blind to. It's not so much a question of knowing right from wrong, but what to do what you can't really stand up for right, when you are vastly outnumbered by a morally-blind society. It's complex book, dealing with my complex issues, all done in a very deliciously Spinelli way. Grade: A-
The Wonderful Wringer .......2007-06-04
The name of my book is the Wringer; Jerry Spinelli made it. I liked the book because it is kind of a kids book but it's not it is for any age. I love the characters in this book. The book is about a boy named Palmer and he is turning ten years old, and when you turn ten years old you get to become a wringer, which basically means you have to twist the necks of the pigeons. But palmer has a pigeon, he feeds it, names it and the pigeon stays and comes back every day for more. But Palmer thinks that he can hide it from all of his friends. And it kind of works until the middle of the book. In the book the setting is like New York and nice looking houses, big cities.
The theme to this book would maybe be if you don't want to do anything you don't feel comfortable doing than don't do it just say no. It wont hurt anybody. I think that you should read this book it's great. You will have so much fun with this book. It is for any age. It is personally my favorite book I've ever read.
hello.......2007-04-18
this book was very exciteing and suspenseful. you would like it if you dont like pigeons.
wringer kids.......2007-03-28
This story is full of surprises, which really made me want to keep reading. In one point of the story Palmer tells the "gang" that he does not want to become a wringer. This surprised me greatly because I thought that Palmer would become a wringer so he could keep his friends. I learned to always show your feelings and don't do something that you don't want to do just to get friends. I recommend this Fiction-Horror genre to readers of all ages.
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Set of 4 books by Jerry Spinelli
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Set of 4 Novels By Jerry Spinelli - Maniac Magee, The Library Card, Wringer, Loser.
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