Compact English-English-Tamil Dictionary (PLC)

Features

• The dictionary provides 2,000 key words that are the most important words to know in English, 1,100 synonyms and antonyms and 13,000 example sentences.
• Words like ‘google, ‘microblogging, ‘youth club, ‘WalkmanTM, ‘webcam’, and many more have been taken from current usage of English.
• The English base of the dictionary, taken from the Oxford Essential Dictionary, has been adapted for Indian readers.
• To make the dictionary more user-friendly detailed definitions and one-word equivalents in Tamil have been included for words that needed to be explained further for example, ‘calorie’, ‘cable’, ‘microchip’ and ‘website’.
• Words like ‘acid rain’, ‘call centre’, and ‘shopping centre’ which do not have equivalent Tamil words have been explained by detailed definitions.
• Many words such as ‘computer’, ‘multimedia’ ‘software’, and ‘smartphone’, have been written out in Tamil to show that such words have now been included in the language.
• The Tamil translation is simple and reflects the current usage of the language.
• A pronunciation guide using the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) is given for help in pronunciation.
• Study pages explaining the use of preposition in context of numbers, time and date, how to write an email and a list of geographical names along with their adjective forms have been appended to help the learners in enriching their learning of English.