He even had to look up the dictionary definition of cheat, he says.
And then they're not alone, and they can look it up in the dictionary together.
If you look it up in the dictionary, one definition for the word has it as a synonym for an underhand plot or conspiracy.
In a sinister ironic climax, his boss, a police captain with a sadistic intellectual bent, pins him to the meaning of words looked up in the dictionary.
So, I just looked it up on the Encarta dictionary: English (North America).
In rarely sincere terms, Urban Dictionary already summed up this point under its gamer definition.
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It is easy to search by word or phrase and skip around on a tablet, or pull up references such as a dictionary or thesaurus.
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From there, you can add a note, look up words in The New Oxford American Dictionary, translate through Bing translation or share passages on Facebook or Twitter.
That button also lets you buy the book (in the case of a sample), skip to a specific page, bookmark, look up a word in the including Collins dictionary, view the book's table of contents, and adjust the font size -- there are eight font sizes in all.
The best a single-volume dictionary can hope to do is offer up a tantalizing smorgasbord of lexical tidbits.
Interestingly enough, the common desktop reference guide "The Dictionary of Cultural Literacy" best sums up the Bible's value as a tool of cultural literacy.
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The app also features a dictionary and meals for Furby, which are served up by flicking them in its general direction.
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In addition, the new Reader line offers users on-screen functionality to look up words and phrases with the built-in New Oxford American Dictionary, Second Edition and Oxford Dictionary of English eDictionaries, as well as 10 translation dictionaries in languages such as French, German, Spanish, Italian and Dutch.
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We learned at Palm that the user doesn't want to take up all of their available memory on their basic device in order to bring on a dictionary.
The Instant Dictionary is even more exciting: toggling it in the ASUS Quick Setting panel will bring up a small round button that snaps to either the left or right side of the screen.
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