Oxford Thesaurus of English

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The Pop-up Thesaurus with comprehensive coverage andclear layout!

From the world?s most trusted dictionaries comes Oxford?s brand newthesaurus, The New Oxford Thesaurus of English.
All thesauruses contain lists of words that are linked by having a similarmeaning, but the New Oxford Thesaurus of English goes much further - it alsocontains antonyms (words with opposite meanings), related terms, noun lists,detailed studies of closely related synonyms, advice on confusable words, andother features.
With more than 600,000 alternative and opposite words, you won?t have to crackyour brains trying to figure out the perfect word to use in your research paper.With the revolutionary iFinger Pop-up interface, you have the easiest-everaccess to this thesaurus. Simply move your cursor over a word on your Web pageor your windows application and the entries are displayed in a pop-up window.
It is an unrivalled reference resource for students, professionals, and writersof every kind.
It certainly deserves the title of thesaurus, which comes from a Greek wordmeaning storehouse or treasure.

• 600,000 alternative and opposite words
• Instant lookup in pop-up window
• Ready whenever you need it
• The iFinger engine is user-friendly and unobtrusive. It runs seamlessly in the background when you start Windows.
• When activated, simply point your cursor over a word i your Web browser, and the results from the quick reference will appear instantly in a pop-up window. (You can also double-click or configure a custom hot key.)
• The pop-up window gives you a summary of the complete listing - hit the d

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Not a good neighbor:

I installed the Thesaurus on my new Dell workstation running Windows XP. I soon observed peculiarities when I was editing in Word or Adobe Pagemaker. The automatic pop-up feature of the Thesaurus interfered with my editing. I could no longer select something and then type over it. The Thesaurus came up instead. I couldn't live with this, nor could I find a way to change that behavior, so I uninstalled the product. I cannot use it. I went back to a 13-year-old copy of American Heritage Dictionary (and... more info

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