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It is, of course, not writtenĪs a learner dictionary, so it has all the drawbacks of any native speaker dictionary.ĭefinitions are often difficult and do not always include example usages. I found it easy to copy and paste items into a word processing document.Īs a tool for the ESL/EFL classroom, it is limited. Other icons, such as scissor for cutting,Ī printer for printing, and so forth, are clear and familiar to users of word 'Find' helps you search for a word or phrase in an entry, the 'Footprints' displayĪll the entries you‰ve viewed so far. The navigation is more or less straightforward.įorward and back buttons will look familiar and require no additional instruction. Below it are three search options:Īnagrams of a specific word, such as POST, STOP, TOPS, POTS To search for anagrams, find a rhyme for a word or to look for phonetic characters. Special SearchĮSL teacher create activities/ games using anagrams or rhymes. Searches that could be useful-for example the quotation or etymology indexesĬan help you locate words by author, publication, date, and so forth.: 4. Up' and it returned 42 entries in which it was either defined or used in I think this could be usefulįor classroom or learning purposes. Or quotation text, or any combination of these. Alternatively, you can confine your search to definition, etymology, You can search for any string wherever it occurs in theĭictionary text. Was the 'phrases and compound word' search, which could be used asĪ way to teach idioms, phrases, and other more complex structures.įull-text search allows you to search the entire text of the dictionary using By clicking the various radio buttons, it was clear what the program I found that experimenting here works best-the Help instructions are long andĬomplex. Headwords index using Part of speech, Label, and Date filters, for example. If you double click on any highlighted word in the Word list and a box will List box on the right, where all the words in the headword group are listed. The entry opens at the headword, then scrolls down the entry to find the match. If your word is an abbreviation or a derivative, (You must have the CD-ROM in the drive for the program to work).Įntry opens at the headword. Search, you to type in the word you want and it locates your entry from theĬD-ROM. Lets you look up headwords as you would in a printed dictionary. Is the only search I found to be straightforward and easy to use.

Their basic functions are described and shown below.

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Searches: The simple search, index search, full text search and special search. However, as a tool for the ESL/EFL classroom, its use may be limited.

The program also searches by anagram, rhyme, quotation andĮtymology. With it, you can look up a word, get its definition, usage, and You get the same half a million definitions and 83,000 quotations on a singleĬompact disc.

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Microsoft CD-ROM extensions software (MSCDEX) version 2.21 or higher Oxford University Press and Electronic Publishing, B.V., 1996 ($99 street price, The New Shorter Oxford English Dictionary TESL Meta-Sites on the Internet: A Review

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