| Comprehensive dictionary |
Multiple detailed definitions (+210,000) |
| Complete thesaurus |
Nearly 1,400,000 relationships between definitions (synonyms, antonyms, hypernyms, hyponyms, meronyms, holonyms,...) |
| Example sentences |
A large collection that already includes approximately 50,000 examples of usage. |
| Pronunciations |
+70,000 phonetic transcriptions. |
| System integration |
One-click lookup from most applications. |
| Information integration |
Each definition has its own specific thesaurus. |
| Cross-referencing |
Any and all displayed words are clickable, triggering a new lookup. |
| Wildcard search |
Match single/multiple characters as well as filter by single/groups of vowels and consonants. |
| Anagram search |
Only valid English words are returned. |
| Portability |
Fully functional when run from portable devices such as a USB. |
| Clipboard support |
Copy search results, examples, thesauri, definitions. |
| Tabbed interface |
Previous lookups and searches remain readily available. |
| Structured display |
Clean, flexible, fast, and easy to use presentation of information. |
| Price |
Absolutely 100% free of charge. |
| Custom appearance |
Choose your own font and color for each aspect of the display. |
| Multi-session history |
Quickly available via dropdown or the 'History' tool. |
| Concordancer |
Definition and example concordancer tools (so-called 'reverse search'). |
| Semantic similarity |
User-defined custom thesaurus. |
| Online search |
Search Wikipedia, Google define/translate, or any other web address directly from TheSage. |
| 'As you type' tool |
Browse TheSage's index real-time. |
| Phonetic search |
Carry out relatively sophisticated pattern searches of the phonetic transcriptions (pronunciations) in the database. |
| Spell-/sounds-like assistant |
TheSage will help you if you can't quite remember the word you are looking for. |
| Speech |
TheSage can be turned into a speaking dictionary. Click on the
phonetic transcription of a lookup to hear how it is pronounced or have
TheSage read all or part of any lookup. |
| Word list manager |
This manager allows the user to store words from a variety of
sources. For example, the results of a wildcard or anagram search can be
stored in a word list. Word list can be combined (union, intersection,
difference, and uniques) as well as imported and exported.
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