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OED on CD-ROM
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OED on-line
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| Enables
to limit a search to : |
- Headword, e.g.
entire entry
- Particular section
of the entry, such as
- Definition
- Etymology
- Quotation
- Greek script
- Phonetic list
- Variant form
list
- Phrases etc.
list
- Date
- Part of speech
- Language
- Cited from
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- Headword, e.g.
entire entry
- Particular section
of the entry, such as:
- Definition
- Etymology
- Quotations
- Label
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| Search
Engine |
- Search word (look
up and matches your word exactly)
- Browse Entries
(matches all forms beginning with the word or stem you type)
- Entire Entries
(all entries containing the word or phrase you specify)
- Operators --
“and” “not” “or” “exclusive not”
- Proximity Search
(ordered and regular)
- Wild card “?”
and “*”
- Non Roman Characters
and Symbols
- Combining different
search fields
- Combining queries
- Linking definition
and quotation fields
- Specify settings
on/off:
- case sensitive
- treat hyphen
as search character
- accents and
diacritics
- resolvable
special characters
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- Search word (look
up and matches your word exactly)
- Browse Entries
(matches all forms beginning with the word or stem you type)
- Entire Entries
(all entries containing the word or phrase you specify)
- Operators --
“and” “not” “or”
- Proximity Search
(ordered and regular)
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| Display
options |
- Word Look-up
with 3 styles of displaying the results:
- List of entries
- Line of text
- List + Text
- Map (diagrammatic
representation of the entry)
- Font menu (gives
a choice of colors, fonts and sizes for the entry display)
- Keep the displayed
entry while viewing another entry
- Browsing (7 options)
- Cross-references
- List Contents
- Word list
- Variant form
list
- Phonetic list
- Greek list
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- Word Lookup (matches
your word exactly, omit all diacritics)
- a browseable
index of headwords
- index of all
entries containing the word or phrase you specify
- words with the
etymology information you supply
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| Maneuvering
among hits list and documents |
- Display menu
- Map
- Scroll bar or
the PgDn and PgUp keys
- Result window
can be resized
- A maximum of
three entries in addition to the base window can be displayed at once
- Allows to associate
comments with the result file
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- Browser’s navigational
buttons (back and forward)
- Scroll bar
- only one result
window can be displayed at once
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| Saving/printing
results |
Allows for saving the results file into word-processing program. Printing
can be done from the saved file when word-processing program is run. |
Depends on capabilities of your browser |
| Help
documentation |
Publisher’s User’s Guide, Program Help file |
On-line help text file with hypertext links to/from related documents on
OED. |
| Dependability
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Reliable |
Erratic; usually excellent but depends on local resource use, ports available,
and network traffic. |
| Overall
user-friendliness |
easy to use, fast |
easy to use, speed depends on a browser and computer characteristics |
