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Rating:  24 reviews
Sales Rank: 1895
Format: Cd-rom
Platforms: Macintosh, Windows Xp, Windows
Genre: REFERENCE / LIFESTYLE
Color: Merriam-Webster's Spanish-English Dictionary
ESRB: Everyone
Media: CD-ROM
Number Of Items: 1
Batteries Included: No
Operating System: Windows XP
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.4 x 5.1 x 1.3
Legal Disclaimer: Warranty does not cover misuse of product.
MPN: 798694887334
UPC: 798694887334
EAN: 0798694887334
ASIN: B00009ZL51
Release Date: July 1, 2003
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Showing reviews 6-10 of 24
 Not for anyone out of high school! February 3, 2006
Kat Smiles (northwest city)
13 out of 19 found this review helpful
I was thoroughly disappointed. The first few words I looked up in the thesaurus were not listed -- words like upholstery! When I went online to see what I might be able to glean from their online site, first Fogware had not sent me a coupon, then I had to deal with bad customer service (I am not doing business with any companies anymore that give bad support) then after I finally got the coupon code they had left out of my box, the online info is exactly what we have in the cd -- so save your money and do not subscribe to their extended services site unless you need a spanish online dictionary also! VERY BAD! I am now going to go buy Roget's and check it out!
 Great dictionary January 8, 2006
Petro von Richter (Hamburger, Germany)
12 out of 12 found this review helpful
Any e-dictionary will give you definitions of course, but what I especially like about this one is that it is lightning fast. Also, when a definition contains an illustration it's indicated by an icon which you double click to view (and which comes up instanteously in a seperate window). This dictionary also allows you to search a word by different criteria other than for just its definitions: rhymes with, Homophones are, Date of, Author quoted, Definition contains...etc, etc. One note on installation: make sure you temporarily disable active virus software (and it wouldn't hurt to do the same for those other programs on the right side of the task bar).
 great for kids January 2, 2004
chris (Tampa, FL United States)
10 out of 18 found this review helpful
The Amazon Features: recommended this dictionary for age 9 to adult and this should have been a big clue. Generally 9 year olds and adults aren't looking for the same things in a product of this type. This is a cute program but all of it is freely available on the Web.My two biggest disappointments were the brief simplistic definitions and that it lacks cross-referencing or hyper-linking within a definition, -- yes, you can easily jump to new definitions from words within a given definition, but, for me, this lacks the learning that comes with hyper-linking. My last comment is that as of January 04, the reviews listed under this Medical Dictionary are reviews for other Merriam-Webster products, but not for the Medical Dictionary. Read closely and notice the reference to a thesaurus that the Medical Dictionary does not have.
Tambien es en ingles /espanol August 27, 2003
Nancy Moran (Baltimore, Maryland USA)
9 out of 10 found this review helpful
This is a very fine bilingual encyclopedia of the Spanish and English languages.It installs within seconds and has extremely complex search capabilities in either language. Whatever Amazon is charging for it - multiply by five and you will have a glimpse of the value of this CD-ROM. Leave it in RAM. Read a Spanish language newspaper over the net. Watch Univision on cable TV. Pick words off the radio. If you are using this dictionary to learn Spanish, you will ALSO have to have a verb book - it doesn't teach grammar, but it DOES teach modismos (idiomatic expressions). It DOES know a noun from a verb from an adverb from an adjective. This is an indispensable tool. Load it onto your laptop and take it to Mexico City or Miami or Venezuela. Share with the people you meet there.
Great product with a lot of features April 26, 2005
Boook Eater (Cambridge, MA)
9 out of 9 found this review helpful
I had an old version of this software (2.0, I think), which requires Mac OS 9 or classic. This new version runs in native OS X. I agree with other reviewers: the interface is ugly, but it does the job. I like the audio capability. English is not my first language so I find the pronunciation feature indispensable (don't forget to install it; it's not included in the "easy" install option). Another great feature is the "Defining text contains" search. You can find a word by entering the words that are in the definition. What is the word that denotes the noise a duck makes? You can easily find that, of course, ducks "quack," not to mention that you will also find all kinds of ducks -- the blue-winged teal, the bufflehead, the eider -- and all sorts of duck relatives and even duck dishes. You can also find words that rhyme with duck: cluck, guck and many more. Other ways of searching include usage paragraph contains, forms a crossword, homophones, cryptograms and more. I don't understand why these features are not prominently used to market the dictionary. They are one the reasons for using a dictionary in a computer, and they make the $20 a joke. I would pay so much more for it.
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