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When you need to use a dictionary then the quickest solution is usually to head off online. There are plenty of excellent free services available, and if you\u2019re just looking for a quick definition then they\u2019ll probably do a very good job.<\/p>\n
If you need more, though \u2013 more frequent lookups, better searching features, more options and control — then there\u2019s still a case for installing a dictionary application. And TheSage<\/a> is the perfect example.<\/p>\n The program is extremely comprehensive, for instance, with 210,000+ definitions (and a thesaurus detailing 1,400,000 relationships between them). It\u2019s free, and unrestricted. And installation is straightforward (there\u2019s even a portable option, if you need it).<\/p>\n It won\u2019t exactly take long to get started with TheSage, either. Enter a word in the box, click \u201cLookUp\u201d and you\u2019ll get a definition right away. This will include a guide to how the word is pronounced (click this and you\u2019ll hear it spoken out loud), and many of the definitions will also have examples showing you how they\u2019re used.<\/p>\n Knowing how to spell the word you\u2019re after is often a problem with dictionaries, of course, but TheSage provides multiple tools to help.<\/p>\n You can just give it a try with your best guess, and the program will intelligently suggest matches (type \u201cdicshunary\u201d, for instance, and it knows that \u201cdictionary\u201d is probably what you meant).<\/p>\n You can opt to \u201csearch as you type\u201d, which is rather like flicking through the pages of a paper dictionary. So as you type each letter, TheSage will display what it thinks is the most likely match, and once you spot what you need then double-clicking it will bring up the definition.<\/p>\n And you can even use a variety of wildcard searches, very helpful if you\u2019re confident of the spelling in all but one or two places.<\/p>\n Elsewhere, there\u2019s another handy extra in the Anagram feature. Enter an appropriate word, click Anagram, and you\u2019ll see a list of all the full and partial anagrams it can make.<\/p>\n And while all this happens locally, no need to be online, the program also recognizes that sometimes the web is the best place to go. So if you enter a word or phrase, and click \u201cGo online\u201d, within a few seconds the program\u2019s internal browser will display tabs with results from Wikipedia, Wiktionary, Google\u2019s Define service, and a regular Google search.<\/p>\n If there\u2019s a problem here it\u2019s that TheSage tries perhaps too hard to hide most of its functionality. Launch the program and you\u2019ll see only a few basic search options, for instance. To find the Web search you\u2019ll have to spot a tiny arrow in the extreme left of the program window, click it, select \u201cOther Searches\u201d, and click the Internet icon. Which isn\u2019t exactly obvious.<\/p>\n Take the time to explore everything it has to offer, though, and you\u2019ll find TheSage<\/a> is an excellent tool, one of the most capable dictionaries around (free or otherwise). And if online equivalents aren\u2019t quite providing the power you need then you really should give the program a try.<\/p>\n Photo Credit:<\/strong> NinaMalyna<\/a>\/Shutterstock<\/a><\/p>\n When you need to use a dictionary then the quickest solution is usually to head off online. There are plenty of excellent free services available, and if you\u2019re just looking for a quick definition then they\u2019ll probably do a very good job. If you need more, though \u2013 more frequent lookups, better searching features, more […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7429,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-641718","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/641718","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7429"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=641718"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/641718\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=641718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=641718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=641718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n<\/img><\/a>
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