Aura H2O Looking up hyphenated words in dictionary.

[masterz87]

Why can't I look them up? It shoul be able to do compound words at least I believe my old nst did compound word definition but the kobo won't.

[davidfor]

The dictionary lookup does do hyphenated words and compound words. But, the word you are looking for has to be in the dictionary. And it has to be similar enough to what you selected to be found.

As an example, the book I am reading has "walk-in". When I selected that, the dictionary suggested "walkin". A similar thing happened with "bleary-eyed" and "time-consuming". It looks like Merriam-Webster has a different opinion on compound words than the author.

The dictionary will also find non-hyphenated word pairs. From a past look-up, I know that "Buffalo soldier" is in the dictionary.

If you want to check for a word that isn't in a book, you can use the search to do a dictionary look-up. If you do this, it shows the matches in the dictionary for what you are typing. There are some languages that do not allow this due to licensing, but I think French is the only one left like this.

[masterz87]

Originally Posted by davidfor

The dictionary lookup does do hyphenated words and compound words. But, the word you are looking for has to be in the dictionary. And it has to be similar enough to what you selected to be found.

As an example, the book I am reading has "walk-in". When I selected that, the dictionary suggested "walkin". A similar thing happened with "bleary-eyed" and "time-consuming". It looks like Merriam-Webster has a different opinion on compound words than the author.

The dictionary will also find non-hyphenated word pairs. From a past look-up, I know that "Buffalo soldier" is in the dictionary.

If you want to check for a word that isn't in a book, you can use the search to do a dictionary look-up. If you do this, it shows the matches in the dictionary for what you are typing. There are some languages that do not allow this due to licensing, but I think French is the only one left like this.

Well it doesn't do lapis-lazuli. Looking up the first word only shows lapin, and the second does lazulite not lazuli. The word does exist but it describes a completely diferent coloring than what it truly is.

[tshering]

Originally Posted by masterz87

Well it doesn't do lapis-lazuli. Looking up the first word only shows lapin, and the second does lazulite not lazuli. The word does exist but it describes a completely diferent coloring than what it truly is.

Which dictionary are you looking up? You can find "lapis lazuli" in the English definition dictionary.

[davidfor]

Originally Posted by masterz87

Well it doesn't do lapis-lazuli. Looking up the first word only shows lapin, and the second does lazulite not lazuli. The word does exist but it describes a completely diferent coloring than what it truly is.

As tshering said, "lapis lazuli" is in the English dictionary. If you are looking for "lapis-lazuli", I assume the hyphen is causing the problem. This is a case where hyphenating the compound word is wrong, but the dictionary lookup should have suggested "lapis lazuli" as the nearest match.

[masterz87]

I forgot to post again, and the lookup doesn't work. Looking up just lapis(as it's only one or the other) leads you to the word lapin, and lazuli leads you to luzilite. Only the custom dict I got which isth emerrian webter 1913 version leads to lapis lazuli when highlighting lapis or lazuli.

[shalym]

Originally Posted by masterz87

I forgot to post again, and the lookup doesn't work. Looking up just lapis(as it's only one or the other) leads you to the word lapin, and lazuli leads you to luzilite. Only the custom dict I got which isth emerrian webter 1913 version leads to lapis lazuli when highlighting lapis or lazuli.

So what happens if you search for both words together?

Shari