COBUILD on CD-ROM

This compact disc integrates Collins COBUILD English Language Dictionary,
Collins COBUILD English Usage and Collins COBUILD English Grammar,
together with a Word Bank containing 5 million words selected from the
Collins COBUILD Bank of English corpus.

* Quick and easy to use
* Over 70,000 references and over 90,000 real examples
* Over 2,000 usage points with thousands of real examples
* Word Bank containing 5 million words
* Global searches across all three books and the Word Bank

You do not have to be a computer expert to be able to use COBUILD on
CD-ROM. Whether you are a beginner carrying out a straight word search, or
an experienced researcher seeking the answer to a query of greater
complexity, you will be able to retrieve the information you want swiftly
and easily.

COBUILD is Collins Birmingham University International Language Database --
an authorative and informative description of today's real English.

Users can now get even more from the COBUILD data. Features include: quick
access, extensive cross-referencing and powerful search capabilities. A
main index lists all the headwords, phrases, inflected forms and section
headings. There is also a glossary of COBUILD grammatical terms and
concepts.

Global search

This enables you to search for a term across all three books and the Word
Bank (e.g. look up 'shall' and get 'ability (shall), asking for advice
(shall)' etc.).

Wildcard search

The wildcard character '*' can be substituted for one or more characters
when making a search to eliminate the need for multiple searches (e.g.
type 'fall*' and get: fall about, fall asleep, fall away, etc.).

Modify a search

If your search has resulted in too many, or too few selections, you can
modify the search criteria using the Boolean operators AND, OR, NOT (e.g.
look up 'way', click on AND then type 'right*' to get: right of way,
rights of way).

Technical Details

Platform: IBM PC (or compatible)
Minimum requirements:
80386 microprocessor
DOS v3.1 (or higher)
Microsoft Windows 3.0 (or higher)
2MB RAM (4MB preferable)
5MB hard disk space
CD-ROM drive
Microsoft CD-ROM extensions MSCDEX v2.1 (or higher)

Media: CD-ROM ISO-9660

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