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Get help with FOLDOC
How do I look something up?
To look up a term in the dictionary, enter it in the text input box at
the top of any page and click on the Search button.
On most browsers you can just type your term and press the Enter key.
Summary: there is no search syntax! Just enter a word or phrase.
A search first looks for the entry whose complete heading matches your
search string exactly. If there is no such entry it then tries again
ignoring case. If there is still no match it looks for entries whose
headings start with your search string, ignoring case. If all these
fail, it tries to convert your search string to singular and searches
for that.
There tend to be more nouns than verbs so, for example, if you can't
find "archiving", try "archive".
Other buttons
- Home
- This button will return you to the dictionary's front page.
- Contents
- This will show you information about the dictionary and other
ways to browse it.
- Feedback
- This button lets you send comments, questions or contributions
to the maintainers.
- Random
- Takes you to a different randomly selected definition each
time.
- Search
- Looks up the text you have entered in the box as described
above.
Last update: 2009-08-05 14:47
Denis Howe
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