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Welcome to the Cutting Edge Mini-dictionary! This Mini-dictionary includes words and meanings from Cutting Edge Students' Book. This makes it a quick and easy way of finding out more about the words you find in the book. It alsó gives you practice in how to use a monolingual English dictionary. • What information does the Mini-dictionary provide? - simple definitions - example sentences with words in real contexts, often with examples from the Students' Book - pictures for many definitions - information about grammar and word combinations - pronunciations in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) - a space for you to write your translations, for example: You will alsó find information about: - opposites - common errors - verb forms • Which words are in the Mini-dictionary? The Mini-dictionary explains most of the vocabulary used in Cutting Edge Students' Book, but not: - very simple words in English, which you know already. You will not find entries for words like small, car or want in the Mini-dictionary - words used in the Workbook or Teacher's Resource Book • How does the Mini-dictionary present grammar? - Every word in the Mini-dictionary has a 'word class' to show if it is a noun, an adjective, an adverb or a verb. - Every noun and verb has a label to show whether it is countable, uncountable, transitive or intransitive: - noun C countable noun (e.g. mouse) - verb I appear - noun Cl uncountable noun (e.g. sohp) - verb T like