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Noah Pro has many improvements over Noah Lite.

Installation

Noah Lite comes in one zip file (noah_lite.zip) that contains: You can download remaining 3 dictionaries files (wordnet_mini.pdb, wordnet_small.pdb and wordnet_full.pdb). For more information visit www.ArsLexis.com.

To use Noah you have to install noah_lite.prc (the reader program) and one of the databases. Databases differ in size (the bigger the database the more words it has but also takes more memory). Read database comparison for detailed informations and choose the one that best suits your needs.

Usage

Noah welcomes you with the following screen.
Then it tells you how to use it.
Even though it's very simple: press the "F" (it's "Find") button and you'll see a list of all words. You can start typing the word whose definition you want to see. The list will scroll itself to the nearest matching word. To see the definition select a word from list by tapping on it.
This is how a definition looks like. Notice that you can scroll the definition using scrollbars or hardware buttons or just by tapping on lower/upper part of the definition. You can also use left/right arrows to go to next/previous word.
And this is how much memory does it take to use Noah. Notice that you don't really need both dictionaries. Choose one that better suits your needs.

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