The Quicktionary Application
4.Translation
Some words may have additional meanings when combined with other words. These can be viewed by scrolling through the dictionary definition of the particular word.
Translation of the headword ‘text’
5.Parts of Speech
Categories of words that describe their particular function, e.g. nouns, verbs, adjectives. Some dictionary entries contain several parts of speech.
The different parts of speech of the word ‘land’
6.Idioms
Expressions or phrases, usually composed of a sequence of words. They can be identified:
a.Automatically within a sentence (scanned/typed).
b.By scrolling through the translation of the first word of the sequence.
The idiom ‘over the moon’ from the headword ‘over’
The Alternative Entries list for the idiom ‘over the moon’ includes the complete idiom, and the first word of the idiom (i.e. ‘over’).
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