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Cobuild: a short article about someone or something in a dictionary or encyclopedia,.
But between water and watt there are fifty-four main entries in Cobuild and 148 in CED . They share such entries as water biscuit and waterworks . But in addition CED alone enters water measurer (a `bug'), Watford (a `town north of London'), etc.
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 .
It is only from an article about CED that we learn it has “171,000 entries,” which suggests that Collins means by references what Merriam-Webster means by entries . But CED and Cobuild certainly do not say so!
Let us consider the dust-jacket blurbs of Cobuild, CED , and two other native-speaker dictionaries: the British Longman Dictionary of the English Language (Longman , 1984) and the American Webster's Ninth New Collegiate Dictionary ( W9 , 1983).