Six Most Popular Explanatory and Bilingual Merriam-Webster?s Dictionaries for Android Phones

[February 05, 2010]
Six Most Popular Explanatory and Bilingual Merriam-Webster?s Dictionaries for Android Phones

Paragon Software Group has launched the series of Merriam-Webster?s bilingual and explanatory dictionaries for Android phones. The product line includes Merriam-Webster's Collegiate? Dictionary, Eleventh Edition; Webster's Third New International Dictionary, Unabridged; Merriam-Webster?s Medical Dictionary; Merriam-Webster?s Pocket; The Merriam-Webster Dictionary; Merriam-Webster's English-French Dictionary and Merriam-Webster's English-Spanish Dictionary. The original dictionary titles from America?s foremost publisher were adapted for the mobile screen and supplemented with the new functionality providing fastest definition look-up, audio pronunciations, finger-friendly interface, ?Search by Voice? option (enabled by Google), ?Word of the Day? widget and search option directly on the Home screen.

Features:

• Word search option on the Home screen. The dictionary can be used as a search source in the phone?s Global search feature, search results will be shown in the ?Quick Search Box? widget.
• Morphology module to look-up words in any grammatical form.
• Search by voice. Speak the word instead of typing it in the dictionary.
• English audio pronunciations recorded by native speakers.
• Fuzzy Search helps in case of misspelling. Just enter a wrong variant and get a list of similar words.
• Wildcard Search finds words even if the user does not know its exact spelling using ??? and ?*? symbols to replace the missing.
• Integration with Flash Cards application to quiz the comprehension.
• Word of the day widget for the Home screen for daily word check. A random entry from the dictionary is changed daily.
• Dictionary installation on memory cards.
• Hyperlinks between related articles and directions.
• Search History feature shows the last 20 words looked up.
• No Internet connection required: simply download the dictionary to your device and use it with no further expense incurred.

More information about Merriam-Webster?s dictionaries for Android

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