Visual Thesaurus - Online Edition v3 from Thinkmap
Get students excited about words!
Build skills in vocabulary, reading, and writing. Suitable for ages 9 to adult, the Visual Thesaurus is an animated display of words and meanings - a visual representation of the English language. The Visual Thesaurus creates unique, and remarkably beautiful, word displays that go beyond the static results of a traditional thesaurus. Students find it playful and are quickly engaged, learning new vocabulary and thereby improving their ability to read, write and communicate effectively. Visual Thesaurus was recently listed as one of the 101 best products of 2003 by PC Magazine.
FEATURES
The Visual Thesaurus is an animated display of words and meanings -- a visual representation of the English language. Looking up a word creates a visualization with your word in the center of the display, connected to related words and meanings. You can then click on these words or meanings to explore further.
Visualize English in three dimensions. The Thinkmap® display encourages creativity and free association.
See 14 kinds of semantic relationships. The Visual Thesaurus shows more than just similar words. It shows antonyms, "type of" relationships, "pertains to" relationships, and more. With the Visual Thesaurus, you can see that a wheel is a part of a car, that a horned poppy is a type of flower, that epinephrine is a type of vasoconstrictor, and that the Murray is a river in Australia.
Work seamlessly with other applications. Copy a word from your word processor and paste it into the Visual Thesaurus to look up related words. Then use the mouse to drag a related word back.
Print high-resolution images of the display. When you find the word you are looking for, you can print beautiful high-resolution images of the Thinkmap display.
Learn how to use all the features of the Visual Thesaurus with on-screen help tips.
What's new with Visual Thesaurus version 3?
ThinkMap has added a host of new features to make the Visual Thesaurus a better product for learning about words and exploring the English language. Here is a highlight of the new features:
A Better Dictionary
- Audio pronunciations. Visual Thesaurus 3 offers audio pronunciations in either a British or an American English accent. (You must have an Internet connection for this feature to work.)
- American or British spellings. You choose whether to see American spelling, British spellings or both. (E.g. color or colour)
- More words and meanings. Visual Thesaurus 3 now has over 145,000 words and 115,000 meanings.
- More proper nouns. Visual Thesaurus 3 now includes more than 39,000 proper nouns, so you can now use the Visual Thesaurus to more fully explore geography, world leaders, and even trademarks.
- More types of relationships. The Visual Thesaurus adds three new relationship types for even finer control of your navigation.
A Better Interface
- Spell checking. When you type in a word, you are provided with a list of suggested spellings.
- Expand your search to the Internet. Search the Internet for words or related images.
- Back and forward buttons. Clearly labeled back and forward buttons make it easy to retrace your steps.
- Better filtering of content. With four levels of content filtering and the ability to lock content filters, you determine what's appropriate for you, your family, or your students.
- More control of the display. Use presets to quickly choose from among three display modes (including new Free Association Mode). Also fine-tune your display using sliders.
- Two print formats. Print single page view of your word display, or print multiple pages with color-coded definitions.
- Keyboard shortcuts. We now provide keyboard shortcuts for many commonly used actions.
SUBSCRIPTION LICENSE INFO
All subscriptions offer the same convenience. Users can be identified via IP address, if the organization has static IP's.
In addition, the organization can set up a common easy-to-remember log-in that is shared by everyone.
Multi-year discounts are available:
2 years: 10% off
3 years: 15% off
4 years: 20% off
5 years: 25% off
Please Call us for details regarding a site license or concurrent license, or to help determine your exact needs.
800-527-7638
Visual Thesaurus - Online Edition v3 from Thinkmap
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