5. Words search in dictionary
Before searching words in dictionary, we must familiarize with the searching mode.
- Everest Dictionary has the following structure: word= =word translation
- In the top left corner it appears two radio buttons which indicate the dictionary type. In this example we deal with English Romanian dictionary. If select English radio button, it will be search in dictionary the Romanian translation of an English word and if select Romanian radio button, it will be search the English translation of an Romanian word.
- Beside Find button is a field where can be entered words in order to search them.
- The search is executed pushing Enter or Find button after filling in at least two letters in the search field
- A word search can be performed in 4 ways:
- Containing words: any subsequence of a sequence - returns the most results
- Whole words: any exactly word found into an expression - it is the best search
- Starting with: finds words beginning with that searched word - it is useful sometimes
- Exact match: returns the least results
- The usage of the extended regular expression based search is shown in chapter What's new in version 3.10
OK: we searched the word mother in English dictionary. The picture below shows the result of the search. If is desired the search of word izvor (marked) execute double click on this word.