内容简介

Guide words are used at the top of pages to indicate the range of entries on those pages. In choosing guide words for a page, we select the alphabetically first and last spelled-out boldface words or phrases on that page. This means that any boldface entry-mare entry, variant spelling, inflected form, run-in or run-on entry-can be used as a guide word. Please keep this in mind if the word used as a guide word does not happen to be the first or last main entry on the page. The guide words themselves are in alphabetical order throughout the book, so occasionally it has been necessary to modify this rule. When the alphabetically last entry on one page would come later than the alphabetically first entry on the following page, a different word is chosen as guide word. On pages that contain a substantial number of undefined words derived from a prefix entry, the undefined words are not considered when choosing guide words.
All abbreviations used in this book are listed, along with a number of other common abbreviations, in a special section immediately following the dictionary proper.