New Oxford American Dictionary (audio) 1.3


Category: Reference
Price: $14.99 -> $.99, Version: 1.3 (iTunes)

Description:

Short time incredible sale - over 90% off! This is the full official New Oxford American (2nd edition) with offline audio pronunciations.

The New Oxford American Dictionary is the most accurate and richly descriptive picture of American English ever offered in any dictionary. Oxford's American editors drew on a 200-million-word databank of contemporary North American English, plus the unrivaled citation files of the world-renowned Oxford English Dictionary.

Features include:
- 330 000 definitions
- 200 000 distinct words, phrases and derived forms
- 68 000 audio pronunciations from the Oxford Sound Bank
- 76 000 usage examples
- 35 000 etymologies

The intelligent word entry suggests possible correct spellings as you type, as well as listing words that sound the same or are often confused. There's also a powerful pattern-matching search, great for crossword puzzles. Search features include:

- Alphabetical listing
- Spelling suggestions
- Sounds-like and often-confused
- Fast pattern-matching search (*, ?, vowel and consonant)
- Filter search results by noun, verb, adjective, adverbs
- Customize search options (case, derived forms, etc)

This app will only be available until Jan 2011, but it will of course continue to work after that time. Note this is an iPhone app - for full iPad support try the Chambers Dictionary or WordWeb Audio Dictionary instead.

No Internet connection is required.

What's New

- Improved navigation
- iOS4 improvements: swipe left and right to browse entries, better spelling suggestions
- option to disable auto-rotation and underline linked words



New Oxford American Dictionary (audio)



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