Example sentences for: cobuild

How can you use “cobuild” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Cobuild: over 70,000 references CED: 170,000 references Longman: Over 225,000 definitions and more than 90,000 headwords W9: Almost 160,000 entries and 200,000 definitions

  • Cobuild: a short article about someone or something in a dictionary or encyclopedia,.

  • In Great Britain the Cobuild Collocations Dictionary is eagerly awaited.

  • Both Longman and W9 estimate their macrostructure ( headwords/entries ) and their microstructure ( definitions ). But what of Cobuild and CED ? What do they mean by references ? In CED the relevant definition of reference seems to be “a book or passage referred to,” or perhaps “a mention or allusion”; in Cobuild , “something such as a number or name that tells you where you can obtain the information that you want, for example from a book, list, or map.

  • In answer to Anne Bodine's point, both the Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English and the Collins Cobuild Dictionary use they and their as the non-gender-specific pronoun/adjective (which the reader probably noted also in the first paragraph of this review).


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