Viewing a Database's Dictionary

The Dictionary Advisor is useful for verifying the existence of words within a database; if a search for a particular word yields no hits, and you believe that the word is in the database, the Dictionary Advisor can confirm or deny your suspicions. This advisor also shows what variants of a given word exist in a database.

After entering a query word in the Search Screen, you can activate the Dictionary Advisor by clicking its radio button and clicking the Get Results button.

Note: The Dictionary Advisor acts on the first word in a multi-word query.
The Dictionary Screen displays an excerpt of entries from the dictionary, an alphabetical listing of all unique terms in the active database(s), with the exception of stopwords. The displayed excerpt is highlighted at the point where the first word in your query does, or would, appear in the dictionary.

A number pair is listed parenthetically after each word in the list. The first number represents how many times the word occurs the collective of active databases; the second number indicates how many active databases contain the word.

Feedback Searching with the Dictionary Advisor

You can include any Dictionary Screen entry in your query by clicking it and then clicking the Add Terms to Query button. You can select multiple words for inclusion by control-clicking them (command-clicking for Macintosh clients).

After clicking the Add Terms to Query button, you will see your selection(s) appended to your current query.

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