The Oxford multimedia pictorial dictionaries are electronic versions of the updated bilingual paper dictionaries created on the basis of the worldwide bestselling Oxford dictionary series.

The Oxford multimedia pictorial dictionaries identify over 55,000 visual objects by means of numbered illustrations. The content is thematically structured, thus facilitating the user to easily grasp the entire vocabulary relevant to a given situation or context. All dictionary items are also reachable by means of alphabetical index and comprehensive full-text search.

The Oxford multimedia pictorial dictionaries cover wide areas of the human knowledge both generally universal and strictly specific:

• Atom, universe, earth
• Man and his social environment
• Nature as Environment, Agriculture, and Forestry
• Trades, Crafts and Industry
• Printing Industry, Transport
• Communications and Information Technology
• Office, Bank and Stock Exchange
• Community
• Recreation, Games, Sport
• Entertainment, Culture, and Art
• Animals and Plants

Each visual section represents vocabulary list inherent to the corresponding theme with the exact foreign language terms and their Italian equivalents.

Certain kinds of information can be conveyed more readily and clearly by pictures. Illustrations help the learner to visualize the object denoted by the word and to form an impression of the way in which the objects function in their own technical field or in everyday life.

By means of flexible zoom-in and zoom-out functionality the dictionary provides amazingly realistic closer look at each visual object. Definitions are given in all supported or user-specified languages upon object highlighting.