Accessing a Dictionary, UK

Within the NTL digital cable franchise area in the UK viewers are able to access a reference section within the interactive services of NTL Knowledge. There is a reference section including the Hutchinson Educational Encyclopaedia with a search facility and the Oxford English Reference Dictionary – with an instant word search of 192,000 dictionary definitions.

Main menu of the Interactive Services on NTL with the Knowledge Section selected.

 

Main menu of NTL Knowledge with the Reference Section selected. (Learn Online is an advertisement for Freeserve).

 

These are the three options available at in the NTL Reference Section.

 

The word “anger” is being entered into the search facility
of the Oxford English Reference Dictionary.

 

The results of searching on the word “anger” Additional information can be obtained by selecting one of the options on the left side of the screen. Specific words can also be selected when they are coloured yellow in the text. This gives definitions of words selected.

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Last updated 30 April 2004