Webster's Unabridged: Summary of Matches

When you have executed a Full Search in Webster's Unabridged, you are taken to the Summary of Matches page, summarising the results of your search.

From the Summary of Matches page, you can use the Page Toolbar to open a context-sensitive Help page and to refine your original search.

From every page in Webster's Unabridged you can use the Right-Hand Toolbar to consult general information about Webster's Unabridged and to start a new search.

The Summary of Matches page indicates the number of hits (i.e. the number of times the search term or expression occurs in the database) and the number of entries (i.e. the number of dictionary entries containing the search term or expression) retrieved by a search.

The Summary of Matches page lists, by headword and part of speech, the dictionary entries retrieved.

For example:

If you have customised your search results to display the entries retrieved in the form of subsets, you can move back and forth between subsets using the Next and Previous buttons. Using the boxes provided next to these buttons, you can also modify the number of entries you wish to display in the next or previous subset and, in addition, the entry number at which you would like the next or previous subset to start.


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(WU version 96:1)