I’m told WordWeb, a dictionary application for Windows, allows you to find words, quite unlike the MacOSX dictionary. I’ve never even found a usable dictionary when I use Linux, that doesn’t require me to go online.
The whole idea is that if I search for the phrase cure all, I get back a thesaurus entry that suggests the word panacea. OK, that example alone wasn’t so great, because cure-all tends to be a word in these dictionaries. WordWeb Online allows me to have a “reverse dictionary” result, which I think is just fabulous (as long as I have access to an Internet connection).
Does such a Mac app exist? Seems WordWeb exists for the iPhone, but their Java app, requires an Internet connection.
What’s interesting is that they sell the dictionary data. They are powered by MySQL, and if you’re wanting to grab their …
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