OED

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1. OED - Noun

2. OED - Proper noun

Meaning

an unabridged dictionary constructed on historical principles

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Browsing the OED is the idea of a perfect day for me. Anu Garg

According to the publishers, it would take a single person 120 years to "key in" the 59 million words of the OED second edition, 60 years to proofread them, and 540 megabytes to store them electronically. Source: Internet

According to The Oxford English Dictionary (OED), the term "Celsius's thermometer" had been used at least as early as 1797. Source: Internet

According to the OED, the first recorded use of the word in English was a verb in 1661, in Edmund Hickeringill 's Jamaica Viewed: "Some are slain, And their flesh forthwith Barbacu'd and eat". Source: Internet

A later and separate English reflex of discus, probably through medieval Latin desca, is desk (see OED s.v. desk). Source: Internet

British author George Orwell (in English People, 1947, cited in OED s.v. lose) criticized an alleged "American tendency" to "burden every verb with a preposition that adds nothing to its meaning (win out, lose out, face up to, etc.)". Source: Internet

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