The Babylon Pro application allows you to optimize your searching for
unknown data. Clicking on any term from any desktop application brings
you results from Babylon’s extensive database of language dictionaries,
glossaries and conversion tools. With Babylon’s Writing Aid tools you can
easily find the exact word you need, ensure correct usage and paste it
directly into your documents.

Here are some key features of “Babylon Pro”:

· Single Click Activation – Just click on any text in any desktop application
and a small pop-up window appears with the relevant translation,
information or conversion.
· Babylon Dictionaries – Babylon enables you access 13 language dictionaries
each containing over 3 million words and phrases, including general,
encyclopedic and slang terms.
· Writing Aid Tools – For users who want to write in English Babylon offers
a complete set of writing tools to help.
· Cross Translation – Babylon-Pro 5.0 helps users find the most suitable
English word for their sentence. For example, a French user writing an
email needs the English equivalent of the French word ‘aller’. This word
can be translated to English as go, move, travel or pass. When translating
the word ‘aller’, Babylon-Pro 5.0 will display each possible English translation,
alongside its corresponding translation back to French.
· Conjugations – For every English term, Babylon-Pro can display a complete
list of conjugations (inflections) in all possible tenses and forms, together
with their description in the user’s native language. The user can directly
paste the appropriate conjugation into the edited document.
· Direct Paste – Easily paste any term or text from Babylon directly into
any editing application.
· Unit Conversions – Babylon converts currencies, measurements and time,
just click on any value in any Windows application to get instant conversions.
Babylon automatically identifies the required conversion, based on unit
symbols that appear next to the numbers, and will perform the conversion.
· Public Glossaries – Over 1,600 diverse glossaries in 70 languages covering
a broad range of subjects, such as, computers, business, science, travel
and much more.
· Say-It’ add-on feature – Babylon’s ‘Say-It’ feature enables you to hear
the correct pronunciation of words in English.

The Britannica Concise Encyclopedia

The Britannica Concise Encyclopedia is the perfect resource for information
on the people, places, and events of yesterday and today. You’ll find fast
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branches of human knowledge, such as science, history, business, art, culture,
geography, and geology, as well as more contemporary issues, such as cloning,
terrorism, and globalization . Entries also include images and links to related
articles. This is the ultimate desktop reference.

The Concise Oxford English Dictionary and Thesaurus

Get single-click access to the most comprehensive resource of the English language.
With the Concise Oxford English Dictionary and Thesaurus on Babylon you
gain simple and intuitive access to over 240,000 definitions and 365,000 synonyms
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The Concise Oxford Dictionary

The Oxford Dictionary contains over 78,000 headwords providing coverage
of more than 240,000 words, phrases and meanings. This dictionary offers
rich vocabulary coverage including rare and historical terms, as well as
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The Concise Oxford Thesaurus

The Oxford Thesaurus contains over 17,000 headwords offering more than
365,000 synonyms covering everyday vocabulary as well as more unusual
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word closest in meaning to the word given in capitals.

The Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate® Dictionary and Thesaurus

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With the Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate® Dictionary and Thesaurus on
Babylon you gain simple and intuitive access to over 225,000 definitions
and 340,000 synonyms and antonyms.

Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate® Dictionary

The Merriam-Webster Dictionary contains over 225,000 definitions, phrases,
idioms, and usage examples. Dictionary definitions include pronunciations,
etymologies, derivatives and illustrations, as well as, links to related words
and definitions.

Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate® Thesaurus

The Merriam-Webster Thesaurus contains more than 340,000 synonyms,
antonyms, idioms and contrasted and related words. Each thesaurus entry
contains a brief definition describing the meanings shared by synonyms and
links to related entries or phrases and idioms within the thesaurus.