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Originally Posted by rkomar
I just got my 902 today here in North America, updated the firmware to 2.0.3, and I can't find any English-English dictionary in it (just some En-Xx and Xx-En translation dictionaries). Does your En-En dictionary just spit back the exact same word that you type in?  |
Never happens, for some words there is a short definition and an example usage in a sentence, for others, more complex list of definitions.
Actually, it is almost like an encyclopedia, I just fetched the dictionary on a random page, and highlighted a random word "
Anaheim":
[...] a city in California, on the SE side of the Los Angeles conurbation; pop. 328,014 (2000).
It is the site of the amusement park Disneyland.
I don't think a dictionary should use such words as "
conurbation" in definitions, it should use 4000 basic words. Let's see if it even knows it:
[...] noun: an extended urban area, typically consisting of several towns merging with the suburbs of a central city.
Origin:
early 20th cent.: from "con-" 'together' + Latin urbs, urb- 'city' + "-ation"
By [...] I marked pronunciation which is always given.
Here is what is missing (or I could not find how to do it):
It is easy to choose a word on the current page of a book without typing it in, but I would like to be able to do the same in the description of the word, to be able to build a chain. In this example, I had to type in the word "conurbation" because it was not on the page but in the description of another word.