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G.B. Batyrkhanova,
Teacher of English, Kostanay construction college, Kostanay
Hesi3si свздер: сипаттама сезд^ гi, оцу нусцаулыгы, Kepnexmi орын, кец ауцым, жан-жацты ресурс, ца-сацана эрекет, айтарлыцтай Yлeс.
Ключевые слова: описательный словарь, читаемое руководство, выдающееся положение, широкий диапазон, всеобъемлющий ресурс, преднамеренная попытка, значительная доля.
Keywords: descriptive dictionary, readable guide, high-profile words, prominence, a wide range, comprehensive resource, deliberate ^ attempt, a significant proportion
RECENT UPDATES TO THE OED Ацдатпа
Б^л макалада агылшын тшш окыту барысында Оксфорд сездтн пайдалану талкыланады. OED -нщ дэл аныктамасы берiледi. Б^л сездшт колда-нудьщ максаты сипатталады, сездердщ пайда бо-луы жэне оларды колдану салалары талкыланады. Крлдану траекториясын керсететiн негiзгi багыт-тар айкындалады. Макалада OED жылына 4 рет жацартылганы туралы хабарланады. 2016 жылга арналган жацарту кYндерi мысалдармен бершген. Эр тYрлi мамандыктар бойынша окытуда колда-нылатын сездердщ тiзiмi керсетшедь
Аннотация
В данной статье рассматривается употребление Оксфордского словаря во время обучения английскому языку. Дается точное определение OED. Описывается цель использования данного словаря, говорится об источнике происхождения слов и сферах их использования. Определены основные направления, указывающие траекторию применения. Статья информирует о том, что OED обновляется 4 раза в год, приведены сроки обновления 2016 года с примерами. Указан список слов, используемых в обучении для разных специальностей.
Annotation
This article discusses the use of the Oxford Dictionary during English language training. The precise definition of OED is given. The purpose of using this dictionary is described, the origin of words and the spheres of their use are discussed. The main directions indicating the spheres of application are determined. The article informs that OED is updated 4 times a year. Update dates for 2016 are given with examples. The list of words used in training for different specialties is indicated.
The Oxford English Dictionary (OED) is a descriptive dictionary of the English language, published by the Oxford University Press [1, р. 1].
The aim of the Oxford Dictionary of New Words is to provide an informative and readable guide to about two thousand high-profile words and phrases which have been in the news during the past decade; rather than simply
defining these words (as dictionaries of new words have tended to do in the past), it also explains their derivation and the events which brought them to prominence, illustrated by examples of their use in journalism and fiction.
The articles in dictionary relate to a wide range of different subject fields and spheres of interest, from environmentalism to rock music, politics to youth culture, technology to children's toys.
It traces the historical development of the English language, providing a comprehensive resource to scholars and academic researchers, as well as describing usage in its many variations throughout the worldp^^], [3, р.5].
A deliberate attempt was made to represent English as a world language, with new words and senses from US English accounting for a significant proportion of the entries, along with more occasional contributions from Australia, Canada, and other English-speaking countries.
The second edition came to 21,728 pages in 20 volumes, published in 1989.
As a historical dictionary, the Oxford English Dictionary explains words by showing their development rather than merely their present-day usages[4, р.4].
The OED is updated four times a year, every March, June, September, and December. The next update will be added to the dictionary in January 2018.
The material added to the dictionary includes revised versions of existing entries (which replace the older versions), and new words and senses both within the alphabetical sequence of revised entries and also across the whole A to Z range.
Published quarterly since 2000, the updates make up the Third Edition of the OED. I want to accentuate this year's new updates[5^.1].
September 2017 updated more than 1,000 new words, senses, and subentries have been added to the Oxford English Dictionary in the latest update, including worstest, fungivorous, and corporation pop. From new updates students from our college try to use these adjectives in their speech while composing and making up dialogues.
June 2017 update
More than 600 new words, phrases, and senses have been added to the Oxford English Dictionary this quarter, including hygge, post-truth, gin daisy, and widdly.
March 2017 update
More than 500 new words, phrases, and senses have been added to the Oxford English Dictionary this quarter, including hate-watch, pogonophobia, sticky-outy, and things aren't what they used to be.
2017 marks Canada's 150th anniversary, March update includes Canada and Canadian, as well as a host of people, animals, and plants native to Canada.
Not all words that are new to the dictionary are new in the sense of being recent additions to the English language itself. Many additions are ancient and obsolete, but they contribute to the OED's mission of recording the millennium-long history of English[6, р.4].
As we mentioned before above, not all words are new, that's why we try to use and learn them at our lessons. There are not only construction specialties in our college, but we also have future programmers, designers, architects. Students study special subjects, professional English connected with their own subjects. From OED we note words which are related to technology, science, art, design and constructions. I want to make a list of words and word combinations from OED which we use.
• animatronics noun (Science and Technology) The technique of constructing robots which look like animals, people, etc. and which are programmed to perform lifelike movements to the accompaniment of a pre-recorded soundtrack.
• Betamax noun (Science and Technology) The trade mark of one of the two standard formats for video and videotapes; also abbreviated to Beta.
• camcorder noun Occasionally written cam-corder (Science and Technology) A portable video camera with a built-in sound recorder, which can produce recorded video cassettes (and in some cases also play them back).
• colourize transitive verb Written colorize in the US (Science and Technology) To add colour to (a black-and-white film) by a computerized process called Colorizer (a trade mark). Also as an adjective colourized; noun colourization.
• designer adjective (Lifestyle and Leisure) Originally, of clothes and other fashion items: bearing the name or label of a famous designer, and therefore (by implication) expensive or prestigious. Later extended to describe anything fashionable among yuppies and the smart set generally; also applied to anything that can be
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• des res noun Also written des. res. (Lifestyle and Leisure) Colloquially in the UK (originally among estate agents), a desirable residence; an expensive house, usually in a 'sought-after' neighbourhood.
• digital adjective (Lifestyle and Leisure) (Science and Technology) (Of a recording) made by digitizing, or turning information about sound into a code of numerical values or digits, and storing this.
• freeze-frame noun and verb Also written freeze frame (Lifestyle and Leisure) (Science and Technology) noun: A still picture forming part of a motion sequence; a facility on video recorders allowing one to stop the action and view the picture currently on the screen as a still. intransitive or transitive verb: To use the freeze-frame facility; to pause (action or a picture) in this way.
• genetic engineering noun (Health and Fitness) (Science and Technology) The deliberate modification of a living thing by manipulation of its DNA. Etymology: A straightforward combination of genetic with engineering in its more general sense of 'the application of science to design etc.'
• keyboarder noun (Science and Technology) A person who enters text at a keyboard, especially in typesetting or data capture.
• keypad noun Also written key pad (Science and Technology) A small panel (either hand-held or attached to a larger keyboard) with an array of push-buttons which can be used to control an electronic machine such as a television, video recorder, calculator, or telephone.
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• leading edge noun and adjective Usually oh written leading-edge when used as an adjective § (Lifestyle and Leisure) (Science and Technology) § noun: The forefront of progress or development, H especially in technology; the 'state of the art'
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Technology) A technology (originally from Japan) which combines mechanical engineering with electronics, mainly so as to increase automation in manufacturing industries.
• nicad noun Also written NiCad or ni-cad (Lifestyle and Leisure) (Science and Technology) A nickel and cadmium battery which, because of its construction, can be recharged frequently and is able to deliver short bursts of high current. Often used attributively, especially in nicad battery [7,p2].
Students look at some new additions to the Oxford English Dictionary, discuss the importance of updating dictionaries in general. Suitable for adult and teenage learners, levels intermediate and above.
What I found really interesting was when my students started drawing connections between new additions to the OED and new words or expressions emerging in their own language. Overall, I think the idea of using dictionary has a lot of potential to turn into an interesting discussion. To know or follow new updates of OED is useful, interesting and cognitive for everyone, who is interested in language.
REFERENCES:
1. Web site: Guide to the Third Edition of the OED. //The Oxford English Dictionary is not an arbiter of proper usage, despite its widespread reputation to the contrary. Oxford University Press 30 August 2014.
2. "As a historical dictionary, the OED is very different from those of current English, in which the focus is on present-day meanings." http://public.oed.com/about/
3. "The OED is a historical dictionary, with a structure that is very different from that of a dictionary of current English."http://www. oxforddictionaries.com/words/the-oxford-english-dictionary
4. Web site: Jamieson, Oxford English Dictionary 'will not be printed again'. 11 August 2012.
5. http://www.oed.com/
6. News: RIP for OED as world's finest dictionary goes out of print//Flanagan. Padraic. 20 April 2014.
7. Web site: The Oxford English Dictionary// Oxford Dictionaries. 26 May 2015
