The New Oxford American Dictionary (NOAD) is a single-volume dictionary of North American English by the American editors at the Oxford University Press. The latest second edition contains some 250,000 entries and definitions. A dictionary is a list of words with their definitions, a list of characters with their glyphs, or a list of words with corresponding words in other languages. ... North American English is a collective term used for the varieties of the English language that are spoken in the United States and Canada. ... Oxford University Press (OUP) is a highly-respected publishing house and a department of the University of Oxford in England. ...

The New Oxford American Dictionary (NOAD) is based on the New Oxford Dictionary of English (NODE), published in the UK in 1998, although with substantial editing, additional entries, and the inclusion of illustrations. It is based on a corpus linguistics analysis of Oxford's 200 million word database of contemporary North American English. The New Oxford Dictionary of English (often abbreviated to NODE) is an English language dictionary first published in 1998 by the Oxford University Press. ... 1998 (MCMXCVIII) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year of the Ocean. ... Corpus linguistics is the study of language as expressed in samples (corpora) or real world text. ...

A notable difference is that the American counterpart uses a different orthographic (alphabetic) scheme to convey pronunciations, while the British version uses a modified IPA (Gimson phonemic) system. The orthography of a language is the set of symbols (glyphs and diacritics) used to write a language, as well as the set of rules describing how to write these glyphs correctly, including spelling, punctuation, and capitalization. ... The International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) is a system of phonetic notation devised by linguists to accurately and uniquely represent each of the wide variety of sounds (phones or phonemes) used in spoken human language. ... In spoken language, a phoneme is a basic, theoretical unit of sound that can distinguish words (i. ...

In May 2005, a Second Edition (NOAD2) was published, and included a CD-ROM with the full text of the dictionary for Palm OS devices. Palm OS is a compact operating system developed and licensed by PalmSource, Inc. ...

In April 2005, Apple Computer Inc. released its Mac OS X v10.4 operating system, which comes bundled with a dictionary application and widget which credits as its source "Oxford American Dictionaries", and contains the full text of NOAD2. Apple's Dictionary program is the only published electronic version of The New Oxford American Dictionary. Apple Computer, Inc. ... Mac OS X version 10. ... Dictionary is an application introduced with Mac OS X v10. ... A widget (or control) is an interface component that a computer user interacts with, such as a window or a text box. ...

References

• The New Oxford American Dictionary (First Edition), Elizabeth J. Jewell and Frank R. Abate (Editors), 2192 pages, September 2001, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-511227-X
• The New Oxford American Dictionary, Second Edition, Erin McKean (Editor), 2096 pages, May 2005, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-517077-6

External links

• The New Oxford American Dictionary, Second Edition website