The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary.

* Shorter Oxford English Dictionary ( SOED )

The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary, third edition, gives a Middle English quotation making this contrast, from as early as 1400:

Both orthographical variants, with and without the hyphen, are correct, but the hyphenated one has, in addition, a second meaning, not related to animation or cinema: " a device for automatically stopping a machine or engine when something has gone wrong " ( The New Shorter Oxford English Dictionary, 1993 edition ).

According to the Shorter Oxford English Dictionary ( third edition 1933 ) the term sidewalk was still in occasional use in the UK and pavement was also used for: ' a piece of paved work '; ' the superficial covering of a floor, yard, street etc.

According to the New Shorter Oxford English Dictionary, the Germanic root is probably related to the modern English " stark ", in reference to the stiff or rigid posture of a European species, the White Stork.

Shorter Oxford English Dictionary on Historical Principles.

Some are of the same type as the ancient epitome, such as various epitomes of the Summa Theologiae of St Thomas Aquinas-originally written as an introductory textbook in theology, and now accessible to very few, except for the learned in theology and Aristotelian philosophy-such as A Summa of the Summa and A Shorter Summa: many epitomes today are published under the general title, " The Companion to ...", such as The Oxford Companion to Aristotle or " An Overview of " or " guides ", such as An Overview of the Thought of Immanuel Kant, How to Read Hans Urs von Balthasar, or, in some cases, as an introduction, in the cases of An Introduction to Søren Kierkegaard or A Very Short Introduction to the New Testament ( many philosophical " introductions " and " guides " share the epitomic form, unlike general " introductions " to a field ).

* The New Shorter Oxford English Dictionary defines a high-rise as " a building having many storeys ".

Names for these birds in the Tupian languages are siriema, sariama, çariama, which are explained as meaning " crested " ( New Shorter Oxford English Dictionary ).

The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary defines the Anglosphere as " the group of countries where English is the main native language ".

* Shorter Oxford English Dictionary – a larger two-volume Oxford dictionary

Following the death of William Little in 1922, he assumed the editorship of the Shorter Oxford English Dictionary.

On the death of its original editor in 1922, Fowler helped complete the first edition of the Shorter Oxford English Dictionary, under the editorship of C. T.

Shorter Oxford English Dictionary.

Shorter Oxford Dictionary, first edition, Oxford University Press, 1933

The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary describes a gendarme as " a soldier who is employed on police duties " and a " gendarmery ,-erie " as " gendarmes as a body ".

The term was added in 1993 to the New Shorter Oxford English Dictionary.

Although the name is sometimes described as having been misspelled, the Shorter Oxford English Dictionary lists granma as a variant of grandma.

* The Shorter Strachey ( editor with Paul Levy ), Oxford University Press, 1980

It is defined by the Shorter Oxford English Dictionary as " the evening of the fifth of January, preceding Twelfth Day, the eve of the Epiphany, formerly the last day of the Christmas festivities and observed as a time of merrymaking ".

Singulare tantum is defined by the Shorter Oxford English Dictionary as: " Gram.

The Westminster Shorter Catechism ( also known simply as the Shorter Catechism, hereinafter referred to as the WSC ) is a catechism that was written in the 1640s by English and Scottish divines.

The result was published that same year, and the Gaelic Shorter Catechism continued to play a part in church life for decades after it had ceased to be used in the English speaking churches.

In 1993 U. S. News & World Report used the word in its original meaning with reference to a debate about new words being used in the game of Scrabble ; " Honorificabilitudinity and the requirements of Scrabble fans dictated that the New Shorter English Dictionary's makers be open-minded enough to include dweeb ( a boringly conventional person ), droob ( an unprepossessing or contemptible person, esp.

The Westminster Larger Catechism, along with the Westminster Shorter Catechism, is a central catechism of Calvinists in the English tradition throughout the world.

This was also published in 1983 by Book Club Associates in the United States as the ' Shorter Oxford English Dictionary '.

The whole text was completely revised for the fourth edition, which was published in 1993 as the " New Shorter Oxford English Dictionary " under the editorship of Lesley Brown.

On September 21, 2007 16, 000 words lost their hyphens in a 6th edition of the Shorter Oxford English Dictionary.

Shorter TTLs can cause heavier loads on an authoritative nameserver, but can be useful when changing the address of critical services like Web servers or MX records, and therefore are often lowered by the DNS administrator prior to a service being moved, in order to minimize disruptions.

Shorter terms often have less risk of default and exposure to inflation because the near future is easier to predict.

Shorter narrative poems are often similar in style to the short story.

Shorter races often feature a single transition area that teams may visit numerous times during the event.

* Shutter angle: Shorter ( 90 °-210 °) for film, often ~ 350 ° for old video.

Shorter courses, or online often lack assessed teaching practice.

Shorter making-of documentaries are often used as a bonus on DVDs, as it offers more insight into the film, how it was made, and to credit the film crew.

Thus, older writings, as well as popular and sometimes scientific writings ( including the American Heritage, Merriam-Webster, and New Shorter Oxford dictionaries ), still often call them fer-de-lance.

It was described by Eric Shorter of The Daily Telegraph as " Actable, gripping, murky and moody: how often can you say that of the average new play tried out in London, let alone of an undergraduate's work ..." Brenton's one-act play, It's My Criminal, was performed at the Royal Court Theatre ( 1966 ).

Shorter rifles could have easily been made ( and often were made ) that would have been more accurate than the smooth bore muskets they replaced, but military commanders still used tactics like firing by ranks, and feared that with a shorter weapon the soldiers in the rear ranks might accidentally shoot the front rank soldiers in the back of the head.

Shorter than the ordinary bantam, they are often only 20-30 centimeters tall ( with head upright ) and their feet and legs are completely covered by their feathers.

Shorter stories are often typical of those who use a webcomic layout, though this is not universally true.