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How to find words by entering "parts" of words on- or offline?
Thread poster: Marion Schimmelpfennig
Marion Schimmelpfennig
Marion Schimmelpfennig  Identity Verified
Local time: 16:39
English to German
Jul 20, 2005

What I would like to do is the following: Find all words that contain a certain part, for example when I type in "libri", I would like to get also "colibri", or when I type in "tui", the results should also show "intuition".

Adding asterixes does not work with search engines on the internet, or does it with certain engines? Or does anyone of you know of online dictionaries or encyclopaedias or software that's able to do that?
 
Robert Tucker (X)
Robert Tucker (X)
United Kingdom
Local time: 15:39
German to English
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AltaVista, HotBot Jul 20, 2005

AltaVista allows truncation searches - only with the asterisk at the end of the word, I think.

http://www.mlb.ilstu.edu/ressubj/subject/intrnt/srcheng.htm
 
Magda Dziadosz
Magda Dziadosz  Identity Verified
Poland
Local time: 16:39
Member (2004)
English to Polish
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OneLook does it Jul 20, 2005

Hi Marion,

OneLook - an engine searching a number of on-line dictionaries does allow for it - I checked for *libri and got colibri, too

You may like to check this Metasearch Engines Collection (scr... See more
Hi Marion,

OneLook - an engine searching a number of on-line dictionaries does allow for it - I checked for *libri and got colibri, too

You may like to check this Metasearch Engines Collection (scroll down the page to metasearch engine boxes and descriptions) - Fazzle should do if you check Boolean option, but somehow it seemed to be down for a moment when I was checking.

HTH,
Magda ▲ Collapse
 
Marion Schimmelpfennig
Marion Schimmelpfennig  Identity Verified
Local time: 16:39
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THANK YOU! Jul 20, 2005

This is exactly what I have been looking for, Magda, THANKS!!!
 


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