Search Tips

Here are some example searches to help you get started in using the Dictionary Search:

 

apple banana

Find rows that contain at least one of the two words.

 

+apple +juice

Find rows that contain both words.

 

+apple macintosh

Find rows that contain the word “apple”, but rank rows higher if they also contain “macintosh”.

 

+apple -macintosh

Find rows that contain the word “apple” but not “macintosh”.

 

+apple ~macintosh

Find rows that contain the word “apple”, but if the row also contains the word “macintosh”, rate it lower than if row does not. This is “softer” than a search for '+apple -macintosh', for which the presence of “macintosh” causes the row not to be returned at all.

 

+apple +(>turnover <strudel)

Find rows that contain the words “apple” and “turnover”, or “apple” and “strudel” (in any order), but rank “apple turnover” higher than “apple strudel”.

 

apple*

Find rows that contain words such as “apple”, “apples”, “applesauce”, or “applet”.

 

"some words"

Find rows that contain the exact phrase “some words” (for example, rows that contain “some words of wisdom” but not “some noise words”). Note that the " characters that enclose the phrase are operator characters that delimit the phrase. They are not the quotes that enclose the search string itself.