Merriam-Webster's Dictionary and Thesaurus (Dictionary/Thesaurus) [Paperback]

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Publication Date: May 2007 | Series: Dictionary/Thesaurus

Two essential language references integrated into one handy trade paperback volume. • Nearly 60,000 alphabetical dictionary entries. • More than 13,000 thesaurus entries including extensive synonym lists. • Clear and concise word guidance including abundant example phrases • Based on the best-selling Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary, Eleventh Edition

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Product Details

• Paperback: 940 pages
• Publisher: Merriam Webster (May 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0877796408
• ISBN-13: 978-0877796404
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 6.5 x 1.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.8 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (19 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #10,338 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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54 of 54 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Okay. Limited as a dictionary and as a thesaurus., January 2, 2010

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This review is from: Merriam-Webster's Dictionary and Thesaurus (Dictionary/Thesaurus) (Kindle Edition)

The other reviewers appear to address the printed version rather than the Kindle-specific version. I am focusing on the Kindle Application.

Strengths -- easily used under Kindle platform, terse, usually is clear in distinguishing parts of speech, and it can be used as the default dictionary.

Weaknesses
1. Definitions are not necessarily any more complete than those from the New Oxford American Dictionary(already built-in on Kindle). Several that I used tonight were less so.

2. Definitions for one part of speech are often dependent on another definition listed for another part of speech (a weakness of many dictionaries that is annoying for more complex or unfamiliar words)
----Simple example: the word anger is both a noun and a verb, Thus they define the verb form as "to make angry".

3. Thesaurus component is okay and gives additional ideas for the verb "anger". However antonyms are very limited if the purpose is to use this as a writing resource. Very few choices.
----For example: antonyms for anger (verb) were delight, gratify and please. But other common options are missing such as calm, sooth, pacify. One would have to keep browsing and unless you set this as the default, you keep ending up in another dictionary when trying to do that.

4. Word Origins are sometimes given, mostly abbreviated and with less detail than in Kindle's Default Dictionary.

I have not compared word counts. Sheer mass of definitions is a misleading index of quality.

31 of 37 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars A Review of the Kindle for PC version, June 30, 2010

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Robert Winegar "Bob Winegar" (Puyallup, WA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Merriam-Webster's Dictionary and Thesaurus (Dictionary/Thesaurus) (Kindle Edition)

Don't buy it !

Believe it or not, there is no way to go directly to the word you are interested in; or even directly to the beginning of the section containing its starting letter !

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Missing a lot for its size, January 17, 2011

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This review is from: Merriam-Webster's Dictionary and Thesaurus (Dictionary/Thesaurus) (Paperback)

I have been using a Webster's dictionary daily when solving crossword puzzles.
I ordered this one as a replacement and I am totally disappointed in its amazing
lack of content. This Webester'[[ASIN:0877798095 Merriam-Webster's Collegiate
Dictionary, 11th Edition thumb-notched with Win/Mac CD-ROM and Online
Subscription]]s dictionary is missing an alphabet table for Greek, Arabic, and
English for example, and it is missing an currency table for countries around
the world. Also it is missing countries and states with capitals and population
information. Also it is missing famous people and pictures. Finally the size
is much larger then I expected.