Category | Price | Seller | Device |
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Reference | $13.99 | Druide informatique inc. | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
From spelling to style through grammar, punctuation and history, Antidote’s guides cover all aspects of writing in English. Over 365 articles are organized in a clear tree structure with a comprehensive index.
In Discovery Mode, ask for rare words, famous people or Heritage sites, and Antidote will display them in a random sequence. Create word lists that you can review and share with friends or students. Test your lexical knowledge with the game mode: guess the name of a country, city, person and more based on their definitions, and post your results on Facebook or Twitter.
Antidote Mobile doesn’t need an Internet connection †.
RICH AND INNOVATIVE DICTIONARIES
• Definitions (103,000 entries including 28,000 proper nouns)
• Expressions (50,000)
• Phonetic transcriptions (155,000), both in IPA and respelling
• Synonyms (1.4 million)
• Combinations (700,000, with examples)
• Lexical Fields (2.3 million links)
• Conjugation (9000 verbs, with agreement controls)
• Families (12,000 word families, linking 59,000 words)
• Quotations (400,000)
• History (72,000 etymologies)
• Proverbs
• Integrated access to Wikipedia †
• Integrated access to 16,000 zoomable maps and satellite images †
• Links to 1200 UNESCO World Heritage sites †
• Links to Web complements (GDT, Termium, add your own) †
DETAILED LANGUAGE GUIDES
• Grammar
• Spelling
• Punctuation
• Style
• Typography
• Syntax
• Lexicon
• Phonetics
• History
• Business writing
• Language Matters
FASCINATING DISCOVERIES
• Display ordinary words at random, to play the dictionary game
• Learn rare words
• Ask for names of cities, countries or famous people
• Discover the UNESCO World Heritage sites
• Read fascinating notes about the origins of words
• Ponder edifying proverbs
• Play the game of guessing a word from its definition
• Add your findings to a list of favorite words
• Study your word lists and play them in the guessing game
• Record your high scores for all game categories
• Share your scores on Facebook or Twitter †
HIGH QUALITY INTERFACE
• Responsive to all screen sizes of iPhone and iPad
• SplitView & SlideOver support on iPad
• Quick search of a word copied from another app
• Search as you type, to find words quickly
• Error-tolerant search (e.g.: eror)
• Rhyme search
• Anagram search
• Wildcard search (e.g.: lum*, c?re?)
• “Word starts with/contains/ends in” searches
• Multiword search (e.g.: wine study)
• Voice commands (e.g.: “Synonyms of joy”) †
• Touch any word to look it up
• Use portrait or landscape display
• Record favorite words and articles
• Create word lists to share with friends or students
• Share any content via email or AirDrop
• Open content in another app
• Print any content
• Sync your favorites with iCloud †
• All functions callable from other apps (URL scheme)
(Note: the grammar checker of Antidote’s desktop edition is not part of Antidote Mobile.)
(† Internet access only required for marked functions above)