Funk & Wagnalls Standard Desk Dictionary [antikvár]

PREFACEThis dictionary contains over 100,000 entries, offering comprehensive coverage of the general vocabulary and including many scientific and technical terms seldom found in dictionaries of comparable size. Based upon the considerably larger Standard College Dictionary, it represents an up-to-date survey of the English language, and includes, apart from the main body of vocabulary words, a wide selection of idioms and figurative expressions, as well as many common slang terms and meanings. It also includes a large number of usage notes, marked off in the dictionary proper by this symbol [], which give helpful information and counsel on a variety of traditionally troublesome words, such as can and may, lay and lie, infer and imply.Following the main vocabulary section is the Gazetteer, including all major localities in the United States and Canada, as well as all the countries of the world and the major foreign cities, and indicating political status, location, and, if appropriate, ZIP Code number. A separate section, Abbreviations, is a comprehensive list of abbreviations and acronyms that one is most likely to encounter, whether in business practice or in everyday affairs. Biographies, which immediately follows the abbreviations section, lists and pronounces the names of, and gives information about, people of the past and present who have distinguished themselves in the arts and sciences, in world affairs, or in other areas of endeavor.Finally, the Secretarial Handbook includes sections on usage, punctuation, business correspondence, and forms of address that should be of considerable help not only to secretaries but to anyone who is sometimes puzzled by the complexities of English grammar and usage, or who is called upon to write an important business letter.For a more complete account of these sections as well as other features of this book, and for valuable discussions of pronunciation, restrictive labels, etymologies, and synonyms and antonyms, the reader is urged to read the Guide to This Dictionary beginning on p. viii.The Editors