“TheSage’s English Dictionary and Thesaurus” is a “FREE” professional software package, by Sequence Publishing, that can be installed on your flash drive (and/or your computer). I have featured TheSage on the blog before and feel it merits attention again due to the recent upgrades in the software. If you are someone who has difficulty with grammar, spelling and definitions; TheSage can help… During the installation process you will have the option of installing TheSage on your computer or as a portable app on your flash drive.
What’s New in version 3.1.0.1740:
New: Documentation.
Added: Transcriptions.
Added: Definitions.
Added: Thesaurus entries.
Added: Examples
FEATURES
Comprehensive Dictionary
Multiple detailed definitions (+210,000)
Complete Thesaurus
Nearly 1,400,000 relationships between definitions (synonyms, antonyms, hypernyms, hyponyms, meronyms, holonyms,…)
Example Sentences
A large collection that already includes approximately 50,000 examples of usage.
Pronunciations
+70,000 phonetic transcriptions.
System Integration
Look up words directly from most applications.
Information Integration
Each definition has its own specific thesaurus.
Cross-Referencing
Any and all displayed words are clickable, triggering a new lookup.
Wildcard Search
Match single/multiple characters as well as filter by single/groups of vowels and consonants.
Anagram Search
Only valid english words are returned.
Portability
Fully functional when run from portable devices such as a USB.
Clipboard Support
Copy search results, examples, thesauri, definitions.
Tabbed Interface
Previous lookups and searches remain readily available.
Structured Display
Clean, flexible, fast, and easy to use presentation of information.
Price
Absolutely 100% free of charge.
Custom Appearance
Choose your own font and color for each aspect of the display.
Multi-Session History
Quickly available via dropdown or the ‘History’ tool.
Concordancer
Definition and example concordancer tools (so-called ‘reverse search’.
Semantic similarity
User-defined custom thesaurus.
Online search
Search Wikipedia, Google define/translate, or any other web address directly from TheSage.
‘As you type’ tool
Browse TheSage’s index real-time.
Phonetic search
Carry out relatively sophisticated pattern searches of the phonetic transcriptions (pronunciations) in the database./td>
Spell-/sounds-like assistant
TheSage will help you if you can’t quite remember the word you are looking for.
Speech
TheSage can be turned into a speaking dictionary. Click on the phonetic transcription of a lookup to hear how it is pronounced or have TheSage read all or part of any lookup.
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