Oed in a sentence

Fracedinously and gravedinously (constructed from adjectives in OED) have thirteen letters; Gadspreciously, constructed from Gadsprecious (in OED), has fourteen letters.

Relationship to other Oxford dictionaries The OED 's utility and renown as a historical dictionary have led to numerous offspring projects and other dictionaries bearing the Oxford name, though not all are directly related to the OED itself.

His landmark work in 2020 saw Nigerian-English words such as "sef", "ember months", "next tomorrow" and "danfo" introduced to the Oxford English Dictionary (OED).

The rest of her day was spent preparing words for the OED.

The year in which James Murray started editing the OED, 1879 also saw the coining of the word xenomaniac, someone with an insane fancy for foreigners.

Although 'towel' is an everyday word for most, it also doubles up as Guyanese slang for a one-thousand-dollar bill - which now appears in the OED's update.

Generative artificial intelligence, talkboard and dumb phone were among the new technological words and phrases that have entered the Oxford English Dictionary (OED).

However, she says, there is a difference between a dictionary used as a scholarly reference – the OED being the prime example – and a casual dictionary and thesaurus installed as a default on your phone or laptop, or the ones used by Google.

Readers may be familiar with its historical practicalities, like making naval rope or sails (the word “canvas” is actually derived from cannabis, according to the OED), or the role it can play in making many textiles, like clothing, sheets and shoes.

So far, the OED has heard from the UK postal service (where workers apparently call the trolleys that hold their mailbags “yorks”), the restaurant and hospitality sector, academia, and the legal marijuana trade.

Throughout it all, OED churns on, attempting to be ever so slightly more complete today than it was yesterday or the day before.

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".

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

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

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.)".

Electronic versions A screenshot of the first version of the OED second edition CD-ROM software.

I, iv, 90 Elf-locks" is the oldest example of the use of the phrase given by the OED.

Independent Evaluation group The Independent Evaluation Group (IEG) (formerly known as the Operations Evaluation Department (OED)) plays an important check and balance role in the World Bank.

In male human anatomy, the glans penis (or simply glans, main) OED 2nd edition, 1989.

In normal conversation, the second vowel is reduced to a schwa: /ˈkɛərən/ in RP (ref: OED ).