Hi- I started keeping track of words that I knew not the meaning of back in my university days of 1959. And slowly I kept adding more words as the years passed. It was a laborious task of using a loose leaf notebook. But with the advent of computers and me buying a laptop in 1998, the task became more productive. And, thus, I now have a small! dictionary of only difficult words: Difficnary (copyright).
Using any Word program, I find certain limitations. The Thesaurus option does NOT give word meanings. Nor can I search for a word knowing only its partial meaning. And it lacks many difficult words and foreign phrases. So, after editing my growing Difficnary to just one line meanings, I started to use the Word FIND command to search for words or meanings in Difficnary itself. This method and Difficnary could be an addition to any electronic Word application. For example: if one has an electronic copy of Difficnary and uses the Edit command FIND, then one can seek on a key meaning (e.g., slave) and find its words whose one-line definition includes slave: chattel -n. slave; bondsman; belongings coffle -n. a slave caravan esne -n. a domestic slave helot -n. slave; serf manumission -n. formal liberation of a slave manumit -v. to release from slavery; to free as a slave thrall -n. a slave; bondman Ive also included in Difficnary many mythology god names and foreign phrases that caught my interest. I am not a programmer, but I think it would be easy to add (for free) Difficnary word base to your Word product: a "Find-by-Meaning". And its word base could be expanded as users themselves add more words with one-line definitions. Any interest? John S j*s __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
