sábado, 18 de enero de 2014

Comparison of dictionaries


Depending of the word that I will look for and the topic, I look for in one dictionary or another.
 I  try to research definitions of “advertise” from some dictionaries:

·        describe or draw attention to (a product, service, or event) in a public medium in order to promote sales or attendance:
A billboard advertising beer´

·        publicize information about (a vacancy):for every job we advertise we get a hundred applicants:
He advertised for dancers in the trade papers


·         make (a quality or fact) known:Meryl
 Archaic notify (someone) of something:
some prisoners advertised the French of this terrible danger



·        to make something known to : 
·        to make publicly and generally known  "advertising" their readiness to make concessions
·        to announce publicly especially by a printed notice or a broadcast
·        to call public attention to especially by emphasizing desirable qualities so as to arouse a desire to buy or patronize 




·        to present or praise (goods, a service, etc) to the public, esp in order to encourage sales
·        to make (something, such as a vacancy, article for sale, etc) publicly known, as to possible applicants, buyers, etc: to advertise a job
·        (intransitive) followed by for: to make a public request (for), esp in a newspaper, etc: she advertised for a cook

 All definitions from these dictionaries are very similar but I prefer to use Oxford dictionary because It has good examples of sentences with the word which I am looking for.

However when I checked learnersdictionary I saw more and better examples than on Oxford dictionary.

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