Oxford English Mini Dictionary

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A major new edition of the trusted, bestselling, comprehensive Oxford School Dictionary with new curriculum support. This fantastic new edition will boost your children’s vocabulary with new words and meanings from across the curriculum. A helpful new spelling, grammar and punctuation section is included to enhance language skills and bring the dictionary right up to date. The Steps required are usually understood implicitly from the Type of dance but, where necessary, the Step to be used is defined explicitly, for example, Set with Highland Schottische setting step. Secondary Col 3 Anthologies for KS3 to KS5 English White Rose Maths Secure Science for GCSE Reimagine KS3 English KS3 Science Now Collins Classroom Classics Reference Col 1 Times Books A-Z Astronomy Gardening National Parks National Trust Books Road Maps & Atlases World Atlases Within the heading material, Jig, Reel, Hornpipe, Strathspey and Medley are often abbreviated to the initial letter. In some dance descriptions, notably MiniCrib, Hornpipes are not differentiated from Reels.

Our own, far fewer, MaxiCribs, are a typical compiler's accumulated database, started in digital form some 30 years ago and updated as required. The criteria for inclusion are: The letter H can be useful to create some two-letter words but there are some longer, high scoring words too. Here are some examples.Word processors and the Worldwide Web have made the production of Dance cribs much more straightforward. In his MiniCrib, Charles Upton (and now his successors) provide descriptions with a consistent format for over 6000 dances which are eminently suitable as an aide-mémoire for a dancer at a more formal event. Rarely does one encounter a dance that is not included; until his well-earned retirement in December 2013, he welcomed details for inclusion in his regular update of the complete database as now do his successors.

Furthermore, because glossaries include only the words that appear in a work, readers can look them up faster than in a dictionary, which has an entire language’s worth of words. Glossary exampleIn MiniCrib, nC, where n is a number, means that the Repeat requires n Couples; (4C set) means that the 2 or 3Couple Repeat is performed in a 4Couple Set. While all descriptions of Scottish Country Dances are intended to tell the reader how the dance is to be performed, various different forms exist, depending upon their intended use. If you are writing a glossary, you do not need to cite your sources. Definitions are considered common knowledge—even if the words are uncommon—so no citations are necessary.