TheSage's English Dictionary and Thesaurus (A Comprehensive and Easy-to-use Language Reference System)

TheSage's English Dictionary and Thesaurus is a professional software package that integrates a complete dictionary and multifaceted thesaurus of the English language into a single and powerful language reference system.

 Note that only the definition database is consulted. If you are interested in TheSage's complete package (definition + thesaurus + examples), read on.

Feature List

TheSage allows you to look up words directly from most applications, offering multiple detailed definitions each coupled with its own thesaurus.
Some of the most interesting characteristics of TheSage are:

Features	Description
Comprehensive Dictionary	Multiple detailed definitions (+210,000)
Complete Thesaurus	Nearly 1,400,000 relationships between definitions (synonyms, antonyms, hypernyms, hyponyms, meronyms, holonyms,...)
Example Sentences	A large collection that already includes approximately 50,000 examples of usage.
Pronunciations	+70,000 phonetic transcriptions.
System Integration	One-click lookup from most applications.
Information Integration	Each definition has its own specific thesaurus.
Cross-Referencing	Any and all displayed words are clickable, triggering a new lookup.
Wildcard Search	Match single/multiple characters as well as filter by single/groups of vowels and consonants.
Anagram Search	Only valid english words are returned.
Portability	Fully functional when run from portable devices such as a USB.
Clipboard Support	Copy search results, examples, thesauri, definitions.
Tabbed Interface	Previous lookups and searches remain readily available.
Structured Display	Clean, flexible, fast, and easy to use presentation of information.
Price	RM 100/User
Custom Appearance	Choose your own font and color for each aspect of the display.
Multi-Session History	Quickly available via dropdown or the 'History' tool.
Concordancer	Definition and example concordancer tools (so-called 'reverse search'.
Semantic similarity	User-defined custom thesaurus.
Online search	Search Wikipedia, Google define/translate, or any other web address directly from TheSage.
'As you type' tool	Browse TheSage's index real-time.
Phonetic search	Carry out relatively sophisticated pattern searches of the phonetic transcriptions (pronunciations) in the database.
Spell-/sounds-like assistant	TheSage will help you if you can't quite remember the word you are looking for.
Speech	TheSage can be turned into a speaking dictionary. Click on the phonetic transcription of a lookup to hear how it is pronounced or have TheSage read all or part of any lookup.

The screenshot above shows the main elements of the GUI. These are:

• Lookup search box (number 1 in the screenshot above) - Enter here the word(s) that you want to look up or use for wildcard and anagram searches, concordancers, etc. The dropdown keeps a record of the history for the current session.
• Banner buttons (number 6 in the screenshot above) - From left to right, these buttons do as follows:
  • Options dialog - Customization of functionality (search parameters, etc.) and appearance (fonts, colors, etc.).
  • Help file - This document.
  • About dialog - Version information, release date, license agreement, contact details, donation information.
  • Send to System Tray - Hides TheSage and makes it available through an icon in the system tray.
  • Always on top - Toggles top-most window functionality.
• Results tab control (number 7 in the screenshot above) - Each tool operation opens a new window in the results tab control. Tabs can be reorganized by drag-and-drop and closed by a right-click (or middle-click if desired, see the Options).
• Results tab control context menu (number 9 in the screenshot above) - List of all open tabs and is invoked by a middle-click on any tab (or right-click if desired, see the Options).
• Navigation control (number 12 in the screenshot above) - Contains several tools including the concordancer, phonetic search, online search, semantic similiary, as well as the history record for this session and across sessions.
• Snapper (number 11 in the screenshot above) - Shows/hides the navigation control.
• Gripper (number 10 in the screenshot above) - Resizes the navigation control. The arrows at the top and bottom can be used as the snapper.

The screenshot does not show the "Word lists tool" which is included in TheSage from version 4.x on.