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What better way to learn English vocabulary than by examples taken from quotations by famous people around the world. It is like killing two birds with one stone. Learn vocabulary and get inspired from famous quotations. This unique eBusinessGems idea and collection will help students, writers or anybody who wants to master the art of communication, learn English vocabulary in an effective and interesting way.
There are some 2,500 words with 12,000+ quotation examples in the database complied from some 6,000 famous person's words and sayings. English words in this database are carefully collected words that are frequently appeared on various exam lists including GRE, TOEFL, etc. Selections are based on the lists prepared by various authorities that includes but not limited to Arco, Kaplan, Princeton, etc.
The database is available in MS Excel 2007 (.xlsx) format and MS Access 2007 (.accdb) database format. This product can be used for personal use; learning or research purpose; or as content for application, blog or website (please check out details in the 'Specific Terms and Conditions'.
Definition of Idioms are also available. Length of the example sentences are between 30 and 128 characters. Being less than 140 characters twitter limits, these sentence examples are suitable for twits.
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Data is presented in the following structure:
Field |
Data Type |
Description |
Word |
Character (20) |
Top words selected by various Authorities |
Word Definition |
Character (255) |
Definitions of the Word, sometimes from multiple sources |
Quotation |
Character (128) |
Quotations are between 30 and 128 character long |
Quote By |
Character (100) |
Source of the example quotation (Author) |
In addition to the above structure, word definitions are also available in normalized form in the database as below:
Field |
Data Type |
Description |
Word |
Character (20) |
Top words selected by various Authorities |
Word Definition |
Character (255) |
Definitions of the word, sometimes from multiple sources |