Ultralingua Dictionaries


As part of the what's on my desktop series

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I'll state right up front that I do have some issues with the quality of the translations that are included in the English - XXX dictionaries I use, but I realize that it's often difficult to include all the translations of each region's dialect's etc. And I do have this open whenever I'm in class for whenever students just need a native language equivalent. If anything, it helps bring home the fact that there are some terms that defy easy translation.

250,000+ indexed definitions
Technical, literary & slang terms
Thousands of idiomatic expressions
Irregular forms
Etymologies
Pronunciation guide
Secondary definition feature, for accuracy
80,000 word thesaurus
Automatic verb conjugation
PowerSearch mode, with wildcards
Multilingual interface
Customizable: user may add entries
Voice synthesis compatibility
Drag & Drop with other apps
Number-to-text converter
History feature
Automatic translation of blocs of text (via the Web)
Search for examples of usage (via the Web)
Expandable! -- Add other language modules
Connection to Ultralingua.Net for language resources
Extensive grammar references

Posted: Sun - October 19, 2003 at 07:24 PM            

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