Exempel på thesauruses

• Unlike traditional hard-to-use thesauruses, online easy-to-use references reach the target information directly with alphabetically arranged synonyms or antonyms with both brief definitions and usage information.

• For the thesauruses in these programs recognize far fewer forms than the spelling-checkers can, and only limited meanings for the forms they do recognize.

• Precompiled thesauruses (most of them) identify equivalence and more general or specific relations.

• There are in existence alphabetical thesauruses which do not attempt to number the senses when giving synonyms but this certainly detracts from ease of use.

• Through online dictionaries and thesauruses, users can use a word they did not know or understand before, and its definition can be checked again and again.

• They typically offer monolingual and bilingual dictionaries, one or more thesauruses, and technical or specialized dictionaries.

• Reference works include dictionaries, thesauruses, encyclopedias, almanacs, bibliographies, and catalogs (e.g. catalogs of libraries, museums or the works of individual artists).