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[. . . ] MODEL Oxford Dictionary of English New Oxford Thesaurus of English Oxford Dictionary of Quotations PW-E500 ELECTRONIC DICTIONARY OPERATION MANUAL Page · Getting Started . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 · Using the Oxford Dictionary of English . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 · Using the New Oxford Thesaurus of English . . . . . . . 18 · Using the Oxford Dictionary of Quotations . . . . . . . . . . [. . . ] SUBSENSE: figurative a situation that seems irresolvable: EXAMPLE: the president can use his power to break the logjam over this issue. keeping a diary may ease the logjam of work. (c) other extension or shift in meaning, retaining one or more elements of the core sense, e. g. HEADWORD: bamboo CORE SENSE: [mass noun] a giant woody grass which is grown chiefly in the tropics. SUBSENSE: the hollow jointed stem of this plant, used as a cane or to make furniture and implements. HEADWORD: management CORE SENSE: the process of dealing with or controlling things or people. or pl. ] the people managing a company or organization, regarded collectively: EXAMPLE: management were extremely cooperative. SUBSENSE: figurative a backlog: EXAMPLE: HEADWORD: bankrupt CORE SENSE: (of a person or organization) declared in law as unable to pay their debts: SUBSENSE: figurative completely lacking in a particular good quality: EXAMPLE: their cause is morally bankrupt. HEADWORD: ambassador CORE SENSE: an accredited diplomat sent by a state as its permanent representative in a foreign country. SUBSENSE: a representative or promoter of a specified activity: EXAMPLE: he is a good ambassador for the industry. However some entries are more complex and have different strands of meaning, each constituting a core sense. In this case, each core sense is introduced by a bold sense number, and each potentially has its own block of subsenses relating to it. (b) specialized case of the core sense, e. g. HEADWORD: ball1 CORE SENSE: a single throw, kick, or hit of the ball in a game, in particular: SUBSENSE: Cricket a delivery of the ball by the bowler to the batsman. SUBSENSE: Baseball a pitch delivered outside the strike zone which the batter does not attempt to hit. HEADWORD: basement CORE SENSE: the floor of a building which is partly or entirely below ground level. SUBSENSE: Geology the oldest formation of rocks underlying a particular area. 33 Specialist Vocabulary One of the most important uses of a dictionary is to provide explanations of terms in specialized fields which are unfamiliar to a general user. Yet in many traditional dictionaries the definitions have been written by specialists as if for other specialists, and as a result the definitions are often opaque and difficult for the general user to understand. One of the primary aims of the Oxford Dictionary of English has been to break down the barriers to understanding specialist vocabulary. The challenge has been, on the one hand, to give information which is comprehensible, relevant, and readable, suitable for the general user, while on the other hand maintaining the high level of technical information and accuracy suitable for the more specialist user. This has been achieved in some cases, notably entries for plants and animals and chemical substances, by separating out technical information, eg Latin names, chemical formulae, from the rest of the definition (shown immediately after a bullet). For examples, see balloonfish and benzopyrene. In other cases, it is achieved by giving additional explanatory information within the definition itself, typically in a separate sentence. For examples, see curling and cuttlebone. As elsewhere, the purpose is to give information which is relevant and interesting, aiming not just to define the word but also to describe and explain its context in the real world. Additional information of this type, where it is substantial, is given in the ). [. . . ] Each quotation is accompanied by a bibliographical note of the source from which the quotation is taken. Titles of published volumes (Don Juan by Byron and David Copperfield by Charles Dickens) appear in italics; titles of short stories and poems not published as volumes in their own right, and individual song titles, are given in plain type inside inverted commas (`Ode to a Nightingale' by John Keats and `Both Sides Now' by Joni Mitchell). All numbers in source references are given in arabic, with the exception of lowercase roman numerals denoting quotations from prefatory matter, whose page numbering is separate from the main text. The numbering itself relates to the beginning of the quotation, whether or not it runs on to another stanza or line in the original. [. . . ]