Example sentences for: cobuild

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

  • Cobuild and CED are far from being such polar opposites, but they exemplify this general point.

  • 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).

  • Cobuild is intended for the foreign learner of English, whose dual concern is with understanding and using the core vocabulary of English, and who, having achieved that aim, can “graduate” to a dictionary for native speakers—like CED .

  • 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.

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


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