Tap on a word and hold to find its meaning from two built-in English language dictionaries.
Words can also be translated to and from English using ten built-in translation dictionaries.
This historical approach, for which the Oxford English dictionaries are famous, makes some readers smell dust.
Yet speech recognition depends on dictionaries of words and sounds that are hugely expensive to compile.
More than half of the language, the authors wrote, is "dark matter" that has evaded standard dictionaries.
Dictionaries and common understanding of the word reveals there is no such thing as a degree of uniqueness.
Double tapping on a word reveals its definition, and you've got a choice of ten different language dictionaries.
The company has written more than 40 "dictionaries" for the way people talk in different countries, for different products.
One set of bookshelves was lined with dictionaries of Yoruba, Latvian, Basque, Hausa, and more than three dozen other languages.
Dictionaries, and people who study the age-old activity, define terrorism as the use of violence and fear to pursue political goals.
Although Craig may not have actually used the term himself, "wide stance" was swiftly seized upon by comedians and slang dictionaries.
Considered key to proper learning and crucial to looking up kanji in electronic dictionaries, stroke order can be especially difficult to remember.
They write new dictionaries and enforce arbitrary grammar rules with little opposition.
Over 100 books have been given to her in languages including French and Burmese, along with several dictionaries and novels, Win said.
"I would wonder whether the Encarta would water down people's expectations of dictionaries, " says John Simpson, chief editor of the 20-volume OED.
Kindle Paperwhite also comes with built-in dictionaries for instant lookup of words, Real Page Numbers, support for bookmarks and annotations, and more.
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Just as background, words do not mean what dictionaries say they do.
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These dictionaries contain more than 32, 000 word entries in eight endangered languages.
They use literacy and numeracy text- and workbooks, as well as materials such as dictionaries and stationery which are provided by the government.
It does this by recording pairs of keystrokes, putting them against dictionaries with nearly 58, 000 words to come up with the most likely results.
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The device has two English language and four translation dictionaries built-in and provides up to two months battery life(with wireless off) and 2GB of storage.
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With National Geographic, he has just helped produce eight talking dictionaries.
Dictionaries are routinely thought to be about the meaning of words.
It is believed that in the past there have been only partial attempts at translating Chechen into English - the emphasis having been on compiling Chechen-Russian dictionaries.
An evolution of the Hotwords technology announced in September, Swype Living Language uses crowdsourcing to analyze new words and phrases in real-time, continuously updating our language dictionaries.
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But before providing the dictionaries, the researchers distributed a pencil-and-paper maze to each student, in which the goal was to help a trapped cartoon mouse find its way out.
Finally, look at the dictionaries and read their definitions.
Dictionaries often define terms that may also be trademarks.
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Dictionaries define austerity as economic restriction, scarcity, sternness, hardship.
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