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Language database
COBUILD, an acronym for Collins Birmingham University International Language Database, is a British research facility set up at the University of Birmingham
COBUILD
The Collins COBUILD Advanced Dictionary (CCAD) from HarperCollins, first published in 1987, is a dictionary that distinguished itself by providing definitions
Collins COBUILD Advanced Dictionary
Collins_COBUILD_Advanced_Dictionary
Comprehensive Guide. ELT, Collins; COBUILD, Collins (2017-03-23). Collins COBUILD Grammar - COBUILD English Grammar. Collins Cobuild. ISBN 978-0-00-813581-2. Uk
Agreement in the English language
Agreement_in_the_English_language
Subregion of northern Europe
countable noun Archived 27 November 2019 at the Wayback Machine', Collins Cobuild. Mathisen, Stein R. 2004. "Ethnic Identities in Global and Local Discourses:
Scandinavia
Religious wars of the High Middle Ages
Chronicle of Monte Cassino from the mid-12th century. "CRUSADE". Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's Dictionary. HarperCollins Publishers. 2025. Retrieved
Crusades
Nonfinite verb form
English. 2015, Edinburgh. Edinburgh University Press. pp 129-138 COBUILD (1996) pp 83-86 COBUILD (1996) pp 81–82 Gerund at Wikibooks The dictionary definition
Gerund
Norse seafarers, merchants and raiders
pirates who plundered the coasts of Europe from the 8th to 10th centuries COBUILD Advanced English Dictionary. "Viking". Collins Online Dictionary. HarperCollins
Vikings
Type of monolingual learner's dictionary
first published in 1978. Collins Cobuild English Dictionary, first published in 1987 and now published as Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's Dictionary.
Advanced_learner's_dictionary
Bank of English (BoE) is a representative subset of the 4.5 billion words COBUILD corpus, a collection of English texts. These are mainly British in origin
Bank_of_English
Determiners in the English language
Cambridge Dictionary, Longman Dictionary, Collins Dictionary, and Collins COBUILD English grammar distinguish between predeterminers and determiners. Following
English_determiners
Printed and online dictionary of English, published by HarperCollins in Glasgow
increasingly used the Bank of English established by John McHardy Sinclair at COBUILD to provide typical citations rather than examples composed by the lexicographer
Collins_English_Dictionary
Theories about the phenomenon of fascism
viewing things, usually an idealization of what is considered perfect". COBUILD Student's Dictionary Plus Grammar (1995) defines fascism as a "right-wing
Definitions_of_fascism
Branch of linguistics that studies language through examples contained in real texts
used). Other publishers followed suit. The British publisher Collins' COBUILD monolingual learner's dictionary, designed for users learning English as
Corpus_linguistics
Type of dictionary for people learning a foreign language
In addition to the Oxford and Longman dictionaries, these are: Collins COBUILD English Language Dictionary, first published in 1987 Cambridge International
Monolingual learner's dictionary
Monolingual_learner's_dictionary
Type of malware
1989), "On Trusting Trust.", Unix Review, 7 (11): 70–74 "trojan". Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner’s Dictionary. Retrieved March 29, 2020. "trojan horse"
Trojan_horse_(computing)
working on the COBUILD project which delivered the first major corpus-based dictionaries and grammars of English for foreign students. COBUILD however, never
Data-driven_learning
British-American publishing company
United States portal Books in the United States Books in the United Kingdom COBUILD – a research facility set up by Collins in conjunction with the University
HarperCollins
British Collins COBUILD Advanced Dictionary Collins Cobuild 1987 10th (ISBN 9780008444907) 2023 (13.04) 1,920 British Collins COBUILD Advanced American
Comparison of English dictionaries
Comparison_of_English_dictionaries
British linguist
developed as part of the COBUILD project, where Hunston worked for several years as a senior grammarian for the Collins Cobuild English Dictionary. Having
Susan_Hunston
Logic founded on unproven premises
the Question". Retrieved 3 November 2018. "beg the question". Collins Cobuild Advanced English Dictionary online, accessed on 2019-05-13 "beg the question"
Begging_the_question
Abbreviation consisting of initial letters of a phrase
problem". However, many English language dictionaries, such as the Collins COBUILD Advanced Dictionary, Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary, Macmillan
Acronym
Grammatical concept
22 July 2019. Concerning ergative verbs, see for instance the Collins Cobuild English Grammar (1995:155f.) and Biber et al. (1999:155f.). The term object-deletion
Object_(grammar)
Grammar of the English language
Cambridge Dictionary, Longman Dictionary, Collins Dictionary, and Collins COBUILD English grammar distinguish between predeterminers and determiners. Following
English_grammar
43 (3): 565–603. doi:10.1017/S002222670700477X. ISSN 0022-2267. Collins COBUILD English grammar. London: Collins. 1990. ISBN 0-00-375025-6. OCLC 21408083
List_of_English_determiners
Standard accent for British English
207. de Jong et al. (2007), pp. 1814–1815. "IPA Pronunciation Guide – COBUILD". blog.collinsdictionary.com. Retrieved 25 November 2025. "Help - Phonetics"
Received_Pronunciation
Type of automobile
report". The Guardian. 7 April 2021. Retrieved 9 January 2023. Collins Cobuild Advanced English Dictionary. HarperCollins. Retrieved 10 November 2019
SUV
corpora. It was developed by Hunston, Francis, and Manning as part of the COBUILD project. It is a highly informal account that suggests a linear view of
Pattern_grammar
Grammatical component
Mester (1988), and especially Butt (2003:paper attached). The Collins Cobuild English Grammar, for instance, uses the term delexical verb instead of
Light_verb
Translated documents of the European Parliament
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Europarl_Corpus
Part of a sentence
and written English. Essex, England: Pearson Education limited. Collins Cobuild English Grammar 1995. London: HarperCollins Publishers. Comrie, Bernard
Subject_(grammar)
Computer program that constructs concordances from text corpora
dictionary making through the COBUILD project, funded by Collins from the early 1980s. The project produced the Collins COBUILD English Language Dictionary
Concordancer
Method of teaching foreign languages
Collins COBUILD English Course (Willis & Willis 1988) is cited as an exemplary pedagogic implementation of the work, though "in fact, however, the COBUILD textbooks
Lexical_approach
Errors made in dictionaries
clerical error by the publisher. The first edition (1987) of the Collins COBUILD English Language Dictionary contained an entry for a verb hink, which it
Lexicographic_error
Online dictionary service by Google
com/dictionary) in December 2009. Google displayed definitions from Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary for English until August 2010, when
Google_Dictionary
Topics referred to by the same term
Clinic Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates Collins Cobuild Advanced Dictionary, Collins Cobuild Advanced Learner's English Dictionary, HarperCollins
CCAD
Topics referred to by the same term
shed Bank of English, a representative subset of the 4.5 billion words COBUILD corpus Basis of estimate, in project management Bill of exchange, in business
Boe
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Bergen Corpus of London Teenage Language
Bergen_Corpus_of_London_Teenage_Language
Singers' nickname derived from Madonna
cubba". Alisha Chinai named her 1992 album as Madonna of India. Collins COBUILD Advanced Dictionary (2016), included a sentence referring to a singer as
Madonna_(nickname)
Act of reciting or formal reading
English Dictionary. Retrieved December 7, 2012. "Recitation". Collins COBUILD Advanced Dictionary (New Digital ed.). HarperCollins Publishers. 2008.
Recitation
Field of science
Cognitive module Feral child Neuroanthropology Collins, Harber (2012). Collins COBUILD Advanced Dictionary of English. Higher Education Press. ISBN 9787040327878
Cognitive_ethology
Collection of words and their meanings
Books portal Comparison of English dictionaries Centre for Lexicography COBUILD, a large corpus of English text Corpus linguistics DICT, the dictionary
Dictionary
List of every preposition from each category
English Language. Cambridge UP, 2002. ISBN 0-521-43146-8. "B4." Collins COBUILD Advanced English Dictionary, HarperCollins, 2020, www.collinsdictionary
List_of_English_prepositions
Corpus manager and text analysis software
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Sketch_Engine
Text corpus of the Esperanto language
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Tekstaro_de_Esperanto
Company database
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Enron_Corpus
British linguist
COBUILD project. This project's aim was to build corpus-driven lexicons for foreign learners of English. He became chief adviser of Collins' Cobuild English
John_McHardy_Sinclair
Learning technique
the compilation of dictionaries and reference works such as the Collins Cobuild series, published by HarperCollins. Tribble & Barlow (2001), Sinclair (2004)
Computer-assisted language learning
Computer-assisted_language_learning
pronunciation as well. A number of recent dictionaries, such as the Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary, add a few non-phonemic symbols /ʳ
Pronunciation respelling for English
Pronunciation_respelling_for_English
Competitive situation
Business". University of Arizona News. Retrieved December 4, 2018. Collins Cobuild Advanced Dictionary of English (2016), p. 59. Sage Michael (2011), How
Rivalry
Large text corpus of American English
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Corpus of Contemporary American English
Corpus_of_Contemporary_American_English
English language grammar
Longman Group (FE) Ltd, 1990. Sinclair, John (editor-in-chief). Collins Cobuild English Grammar. London and Glasgow: William Collins Sons & Co ltd, 1990
Adverbial_clause
Baptist school in Puerto Nuevo, San Juan, Puerto Rico
the Wayback Machine Specializing in: dictionaries including the Collins Cobuild, Oxford English Dictionary (OED), Webster's & Random House Puerto Rico
Academia Bautista de Puerto Nuevo
Academia_Bautista_de_Puerto_Nuevo
Lexical database
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VerbNet
Question that confuses the person asked
prescribed by Deuteronomy 25:5 Definition of 'trick question', Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner’s Dictionary Frances Howard-Snyder, Daniel Howard-Snyder
Trick_question
British lexicographer (1940–2024)
supervision of Yorick Wilks. In 1983, he was appointed managing editor of COBUILD, and in 1987 he took on the additional role of chief editor of English
Patrick_Hanks
Concept in English grammar
of Pecock. Upsala: Almqvist & Wiksell. Sinclair, John (1995). Collins Cobuild English Grammar. London: HarperCollins. Smith, Logan P. (1925). Words and
English_phrasal_verbs
Online project collecting example sentences
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Tatoeba
Speech corpus collection of British English recordings
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Spoken_English_Corpus
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Scottish Corpus of Texts and Speech
Scottish_Corpus_of_Texts_and_Speech
Word collection
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Cambridge_English_Corpus
Text corpus of British English
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British_National_Corpus
Transcribed corpus of American English
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TIMIT
Data set of American English in 1961
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Brown_Corpus
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Switchboard Telephone Speech Corpus
Switchboard_Telephone_Speech_Corpus
McHardy Sinclair, Professor of Modern English Language, founder of the COBUILD project Ninian Smart, former Professor of Religious Studies Edward Adolf
List of University of Birmingham academics
List_of_University_of_Birmingham_academics
Text corpus and database of 21st century English
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Oxford_English_Corpus
British linguist
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Claire_Hardaker
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German_Reference_Corpus
International linguistics project
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Universal_Dependencies
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Arabic_Speech_Corpus
All the words in a language collectively
possible. Biber and his team working at the University of Arizona on the Cobuild GSWE noted an unusually high frequency of word bundles that, on their own
Lexis_(linguistics)
Set of text corpora representing varieties of English around the world
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International Corpus of English
International_Corpus_of_English
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TalkBank
Text dataset
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Hamshahri_Corpus
Database of Russian texts
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Russian_National_Corpus
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TenTen_Corpus_Family
Speech corpus established in 1984
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CHILDES
Text corpus of American English
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American_National_Corpus
Chinese Translation Longman Active Study English-Chinese Dictionary Collins COBUILD English-Chinese Learner's Dictionary Collins Foreign Language-Chinese Dictionary
Shanghai Foreign Language Education Press
Shanghai_Foreign_Language_Education_Press
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Croatian_Language_Corpus
Annotated linguistic resource
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Quranic_Arabic_Corpus
Set of written texts in electronic form in the Czech language
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Czech_National_Corpus
Database of verbal propositions
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PropBank
Digital corpus of pre-1500 Greek literature
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Thesaurus_Linguae_Graecae
1970s collection of British English texts
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Lancaster-Oslo-Bergen_Corpus
American computer scientist
The Aware Home: A Living Laboratory for Ubiquitous Computing Research. CoBuild 1999: 191-198 Abowd, G.D. C.G. Atkeson, J.I. Hong, S. Long, R. Kooper,
Gregory_Abowd
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Slovenian_National_Corpus
First generation general purpose text analyzer
studying collations or the co-occurrence of words. CLOC was used in the COBUILD project that was headed by Professor John Sinclair. Alan Reed (1978). CLOC
CLOC
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Croatian_National_Corpus
British linguist (1948–2021)
John Sinclair the proposal that led to the development of the Collins CoBUILD (an acronym for Collins Birmingham University International Language Database)
Michael_Hoey_(linguist)
American lexicographer
British English Advanced Dictionary (2008, ISBN 978-1424008254) Collins Cobuild English/Japanese Dictionary of Advanced English (2008, ISBN 1424000793)
Grant_Barrett
American lexicographer and writer (born 1953)
English Dictionary. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-954841-5. CollinsCobuild Advanced Dictionary of American English. Thomson Learng. 2007. ISBN 978-1-4240-0363-1
Orin_Hargraves
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National_Corpus_of_Polish
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Persian_Speech_Corpus
Scholarly project based in Finland
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Neo-Assyrian Text Corpus Project
Neo-Assyrian_Text_Corpus_Project
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Wellington Corpus of Spoken New Zealand English
Wellington_Corpus_of_Spoken_New_Zealand_English
Welsh corpus
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CorCenCC
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PCVC_Speech_Dataset
Tagged corpus suitable for natural language processing research
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Bijankhan_Corpus
Australia linguist
with Brian Paltridge and Sue Starfield). University of Birmingham/Collins COBUILD Scholarship for Postgraduate Research (1986–1987) Ravelli, L. (2006). Museum
Louise_Ravelli
COBUILD
COBUILD
COBUILD
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Girl/Female
Arabic, Muslim
Delighted; Happy
Boy/Male
Indian
Nourish
Surname or Lastname
English
English : nickname from Middle English paramour ‘lover’ (Old French par amour ‘with love’).
Boy/Male
Hindi
Shining Moon.
Female
Persian/Iranian
(شیرین) Persian name SHIRIN means "sweet."
Boy/Male
Indian, Tamil
Resourceful Person
Boy/Male
Arabic, Muslim
Adorer of Ali
Boy/Male
Arabic
Rest; Firmness
Boy/Male
Hindu, Indian, Punjabi, Sikh
One who Meditates on the Lord
Surname or Lastname
English
English : from Old French Walebron (Langlois).
COBUILD
COBUILD
COBUILD
COBUILD
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