Typing Conservative, conservative, or CONSERVATIVE returns the same results. In a Quick search, it is not necessary to type punctuation or worry about special characters, accents, hyphens, or capital letters. The Quick search box is in the centre left of the Home page and at the top of every other page of the dictionary. It also finds phrases and compounds listed within main entries, such as to look up or alphabet book, and variant spellings such as dictionarie.

The quick search finds main dictionary entries, such as alphabet, break, xylophone. The wheel will move to the closest match keyed in.

By typing the first few letters of the word you want into the input box above the list.

A page at a time using arrows at the top and bottom of the list.

It always opens with the most recently viewed entry highlighted in the centre of the list. The word wheel, headed ‘Jump to:’, contains the list of all the entries in the dictionary. You can also browse the entries using the word wheel. The standard number of results is 20 per page, but you can alter this (up to a maximum of 100) by clicking one of the Items per page options.typing g moves the list to the first matching entry beginning with g. To move quickly to a point in the results list, type the letter you want into the “jump to alphabetical…” input box and click.To view an entry from the list, click on its headword.Browse the list using the cursor and/or Next » and « Previous.Each consists of the headword (the name of the entry) and the entry’s first line. A list of entries beginning with A, n.Choose ‘Dictionary’ from the Browse panel.To browse the A-Z dictionary entries, much as you would a printed dictionary: The Browse panel is in the centre of the Home page and in the top right-hand corner of every other page. Browse the dictionary from A-Z, explore using the word wheel, or search the dictionary by performing a quick search or advanced search.

How to find the abbreviations for words