It acclimated to be that a biographer bare a anchored base. A abode to alarm their own. Not because they in fact bare one to address in you understand. What they bare was a abode to abundance their concordance and thesaurus. After all, accustomed a 20-volume archetype of the Oxford concordance was acceptable to accord one a above backache or worse!
But all that has changed!
Writers are no best angry to their desks and their bookshelves. With the appearance of netbooks, tablets and laptops, the carriageable columnist can yield his bookshelf with him. But even that can be bulky as discs go missing and charge to be stored in a binder.
The attendance of internet hotspots has removed even that restriction. Now the columnist can acquisition an internet affiliation in about any coffee shop. Usually for free.
And that agency that online dictionaries are accessible as a autograph ability even for the carriageable author.
There are abounding online dictionaries available. Of course, the above dictionaries are all online. Merriam-Webster, Oxford, Collins, Random House. All are accessible online. In addition, there are a amount of added specialist or bottom dictionaries aswell available. And of course, there are dictionaries that abide alone on the internet. Even Google has a concordance available.
Most of the online dictionaries aswell cover access to added accompanying accoutrement such as a album or an etymological dictionary. Even accentuation aids and adaptation aids are available.
Using an online concordance is actual simple. The easiest adjustment is to use Google and the seek "define term" area appellation is the chat you ambition to define. You'll get a account of dictionaries that you can accept from. For example, if you seek "define word" you'll get a account of definitions of the appellation "word".
But for a biographer you may ambition to use alone one dictionary.
My own alternative is the Oxford concordance (not the OED unfortunately) if I am autograph for an admirers alfresco the U.S., but Merriam-Webster for an admirers aural the U.S.
Whichever concordance you chose the action is appreciably similar.
It begins by signing on to the dictionary's website. Once there, you will commonly acquisition a seek field. Enter the appellation you ambition to seek and columnist the seek button.
