App Detail » Longman Key Words Dictionary

Published by: Pearson Education Limited

+ Universal App - Designed for iPhone and iPad

Price: $7.99
Current Version: 6.7
Released: January 26, 2010

What's New

Support for iPhone6 and iPhone6 Plus screen resolutions.
Support for iCloud syncing of Bookmark lists over 1MB.
iOS9 support.

App Description

•The top 3,000 most frequent words in spoken and written English
•Academic wordlist highlighted to help you understand high-level academic texts
•Thousands of examples based on real, natural English from the Longman Corpus Network.
•Clear definitions written using only 2,000 common words.
•Audio recording of every headword in both British and American English
•Thousands of collocations will improve fluency in spoken and written English
•Thousands of synonyms, antonyms and related words will improve vocabulary range.
•Register Notes focus on the differences between spoken and written English.
•Grammar and warning notes ensure that students avoid common errors.
•Full-colour text, zoomable illustrations
•Progressive look up to help you quickly find the phrasal verb you need * Automatic history
•No internet connection is necessary 
•Hyperlinked cross-references to the Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English (sold separately)

New Functionality:
● unique three-way cross-referencing search
● real-time progressing look-up
● wildcard pattern searches -with * ?
● support for search from other applications
● OS-independent app localization
● iPod, iPhone & iPad compatible "universal app"
● Full "Retina Display" support
● Bookmarks with folders and editable notations
● Bookmark syncing across devices via iCloud (iOS5)

Social Media
● supports Facebook APIs.
● Twitter & Evernote posts.
● Full layout for definition emails and Evernote posts.

Note: All definitions and examples taken from the Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English, 5th edition, also available on iTunes.

Copyright

Longman Key Words Dictionary

© Pearson Education Limited, 2010