Multimedia school dictionary of Polish language PWN version 2.0

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(CD) The dictionary covers vocabulary in many fields close to the daily experience of man, such as medicine, economics or law, as well as expansive vocabulary that goes beyond the fields in which it is used, e.g. computer science, sport or popular music. The dictionary is based on a computer archive of texts of contemporary Polish language with a volume of over several dozen million words. It combines the best traditions of lexicography with the achievements of contemporary linguistics. It presents an insightful description of the meaning and use of words, although the definitions are written in ordinary, natural Polish. It contains a detailed description not only of the meaning, but also of the correct use of words, and examples are drawn from real texts.

The dictionary contains 100,000 lexical units and 150,000 examples of correct use

words and phrases, 30,000 synonyms and anonyms, about 7,000 phrase compounds and adverbs with explanations, and abbreviations, abbreviations, words derived from proper names (names of inhabitants and adjectives of different places), as well as prefixes and suffixes, information on word division, information on word variety, on belonging to parts of speech and their syntactic connectivity. Each described unit is defined in terms of the most important grammatical characteristics.

Hardware requirements: PC, Pentium III processor (Celeron 233 MHz), Windows 98 PL, ME PL, 2000 PL, XP PL; 64 MB RAM ( 256 for Windows 2000, XP); SVGA graphics card; 800x600 screen resolution; 65,000 colours; sound card; 110 MB hard disk space; CD-ROM drive.