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- Price: Free
- Operating system: Windows 95/98/Me/2000/XP/Vista/NT
- Date added: February 04, 2009
- Total Downloads: 110,603
- Downloads last week: 1,166
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- CNET editors' rating: stars
- Average user rating: stars out of 48 votes
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Reviewed by: CNET staff on December 01, 2009
Once upon a time, desktops were the tops of actual desks, and nearly all of them had a paper dictionary on or near them. The best dictionaries were so huge they needed their own stands. You can still see them in libraries. But nearly everyone who has a computer uses a Web-based dictionary, such as the cleverly named Dictionary.com, or some kind of software-based reference. TheSage's English Dictionary and Thesaurus is the latter sort. It's a free utility that maintains a huge dictionary and thesaurus locally, not online, so it's completely portable, though it can access the Internet for definitions, updates, and other needs. In fact, it will look up words in most major word processors, browsers, and e-mail clients, including Microsoft Word, Internet Explorer, and Outlook, and Mozilla's Firefox and Thunderbird. It has powerful searching, cross-referencing, and indexing features, too.
TheSage downloads at 8.52MB; about average for today and fairly tidy, considering that, with more than 200,000 definitions, 50,000 usages, and 70,000 phonetic transcriptions in the dictionary and nearly 1,400,000 word associations in the thesaurus, it would definitely be in library-stand territory, if it were printed on paper. But there's really no way for a paper dictionary to do a fraction of the things TheSage does. For instance, there's an encyclopedia of historical, geographical, political, and biomedical information.
Not long ago, a reference library as extensive as TheSage's English Dictionary and Thesaurus would have cost hundreds of dollars and taken up feet of shelf space. Today it's all free and a click away.
Publisher's description
From SequencePublishing :TheSage's English Dictionary and Thesaurus is a complete dictionary and multifaceted thesaurus of the English language. TheSage can look up words directly from almost any program (IE, Word, Firefox, Outlook, Thunderbird ) and is 100% portable. It runs locally, and does not use your Internet connection. The Dictionary comprises: 210,000 multiple detailed definitions, 50,000 examples of usage, 70,000 phonetic transcriptions, encyclopedic information (geographical, historical, political), academic knowledge (medicine, biology). The Thesaurus encompasses synonyms, antonyms, hypernyms, hyponyms, meronyms, holonyms including nearly 1,400,000 relationships between definitions. The essential functionality includes the following: Tabbed interface allowing multiple definitions and searches to be readily available, quick cross-referencing (any and all displayed words are clickable, triggering a lookup), standard and advanced wildcard search functionality, anagram search, online search, definition and example concordancer (so-called reverse search), text-to-speech, phonetic wildcard search, history, customization of the appearance of TheSage.
Version 3.1.2.1744 includes database update.
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- Average user rating: 4.3 stars out of 48 votes
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Version: TheSage's English Dictionary and Thesaurus 3.1.2.1744
"I've found What I've been looking for!"
Pros: Most of the programs out there require you to "click" on a word in order for the definition to come up and are on a "free-to-try" basis, only. The Sage's has an "As You Type" feature, much like Google. THAT is what sold me on this free program!
Cons: None that I've run into so far!
Summary: This product is awesome! I keep misplacing my resource books, but having the main two on my computer without having to access the internet? That it a wish come true! I'm so happy I got bored and surfed on CNET.com!
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Version: TheSage's English Dictionary and Thesaurus 3.1.2.1744
Pros: Simple to use, versatile and free.
Cons: None, been using it for a while now.
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Version: TheSage's English Dictionary and Thesaurus 3.1.2.1744
"Always available on my desktop."
Pros: Quite an extensive database and variety of searches available. Last but not least, it is free. Thank you.
Cons: It is a good dictionary.
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Version: TheSage's English Dictionary and Thesaurus 3.1.2.1744
"it's good dictionary, easy to learn"
Pros: I like this product, it's help me, one stop service about learning English
Cons: there wasn't..
Summary: I like this product because easy to learn and performance and interface this dictionary is interesting and has been created seriously. thanks
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Version: TheSage's English Dictionary and Thesaurus 3.1.2.1744
Pros: Everything. Full dictionary and Thesaurus for free..
Cons: A little steep learning curve on how to use and configure, but its worth it.
Summary: Really outstanding software. Best educational software for free. What I also like is the pronunciation feature with phonetics. Little hard to use because of too many options if one is using it for first time; but its very easy to learn and configure... read more >>
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