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Noah Pro can use a wealth of different dictionaries (and it's possible to create your own dictionaries).

There are two main types of dictionaries:

In order to accomodate needs of different users Noah Pro provides many versions of WordNet database. Each database contains a different set of words and takes a different amount of memory. In short: We recommend using the biggest database you can afford (in terms of memory taken on your PalmPilot). Here's a detailed information on every available databases:

Name Number of words Required memory Required memory for lite version
Devil's Dictionary 900 108 kB N/A
mini 13300 980 kB 681 kB
small 18421 1138 kB 782 kB
medium 37625 1693 kB 1195 kB
advanced 90255 2932 kB 2672 kB
full 122679 4687 kB 3937 kB

Please note: to minimize the bandwidth consumption only the following dictionaries are included with the main distribution file: devil.pdb, wn_small.pdb, wn_medium.pdb, wn_advanced.pdb and wn_full.pdb. You can download the rest for free. Visit www.arslexis.com for more info.


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