He even had to look up the dictionary definition of cheat, he says.

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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.

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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.

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The best a single-volume dictionary can hope to do is offer up a tantalizing smorgasbord of lexical tidbits.

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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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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.

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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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