Component Features

Easy to use COM components:

• Powerful thesaurus/dictionary showing synonyms, definitions and related words
• Simple thesaurus-only alternative
• Fast execution, even though the database uses advanced compression

Database contains more than:

• 115 000 synonym sets with definitions
• 140 000 root words
• 210 000 possible lookup words

and includes:

• Nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, prepositions, pronouns, interjections and conjunctions
• Proper nouns (place names, famous people, etc.)

Database customizer:

• Add to and edit the database
• Add your own definitions from a Comma Separated Values file

The Thesaurus/dictionary component can:

• Extract root words (shows the definition for "octopus" when you look up "octopi")
• Do inverse part of speech matching (look up a plural word, and it'll show plural synonyms)
• Show irregular word form information (tells you that "sink" has past forms "sank" and "sunk")
• Filter synonyms by part of speech and sense
• Show pronunciations and usage examples
• Show usage tags for different English varieties
• Optionally flag or hide vulgar words

Finds sets of related words, including:

• Antonyms
• More specific words
• Less specific words
• Words for parts of things
• Words for the things of which something is a part
• Similar words

COM component database access

• Directly access the database without showing a lookup window
• Return lists of definitions, synonyms and related words

Optional Delphi source code and components

• Native Delphi/C++ Builder components that can be used without external DLLs
• Full source code, including objects for direct low level database access
• One-line word lookup and replacement in a TEdit, TMemo or TRichEdit

Read the Guide file for usage details and licence information.

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