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- WordWeb Version 1.51, FreeWare
- Windows 95 and Windows 3.1 Edition.
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- WordWeb is a powerful thesaurus/dictionary.
- It can be used from many word processors or
- on its own.
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- In addition to displaying sense
- definitions and synonyms, WordWeb can
- also find sets of related words including
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- Antonyms - Words opposite in meaning,
- e.g. bright/dull
- Hypernyms - Less specific words,
- e.g. jungle/forest
- Hyponyms - More specific words,
- e.g. forest/jungle
- Meronyms - Words which denote a part,
- e.g. tree/forest
- Holonyms - Words for a collection,
- eg. forest/tree
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- WordWeb allows you to filter the synonyms
- by sense and by part of speach.
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- WordWeb matches case of synonyms, e.g.
- search for "pulpits" and WordWeb finds
- "podia", "rostra", "ambos", etc, search
- for "pulpit" and you will get the singular
- synonyms.
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- WordWeb requires a PC running Windows 3.1 or
- Windows 95+ with 8MB free disk space.