Lost for words? — Thesaurus!
Unlike classic hand-made thesauruses with limited coverage, the thesaurus in Sketch Engine is automatically generated by ingenious algorithms analysing multi-billion text corpora which means a thesaurus can be generated for almost any word in the language (provided the corpus is large enough).
Using the thesaurus
- select a corpus
- click Thesaurus
- type a lemma (=the basic form of a word, if the word is went, the lemma is go)
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go to thesaurus
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show thesaurus for a different part of speech
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- go to concordance
- go to word sketch
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local menu to display:
- concordance for the word
- thesaurus for the word
- word sketch to see how the word is used
- word sketch difference to compare the search word and the alternative
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toolbar with the access to:
- change search criteria
- download results
- change what information you see
- access visualisations
- display your search criteria
- add the result to favourites for easy access next time
