I mean something equivalent of "Merriam-Webster" in English that is available as a Windows application with full search compatibility or regular expressions !
Maybe you can offer some of them to me?
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3German to German? What's that? Are you looking for a dictionary which is mono- and bilingual? What do you need regular expressions for? For looking up phrases? Even then you might find all expressions with a particular word by just typing this word. Can't see what regex is good for in that case. Or did you mean to find a corpus. Furthermore, Merriam-Webster provides several dictionaries. But I don't know any M-W online dictionary which provides English-German. But what they do provide is a learner's dictionary with simplified explanations and examples. So, what's it exactly you're looking for.– Em1Jan 31, 2014 at 10:06
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1German to German would be Duden. For German->English and vice versa, i use translate.google.com - if you want to see different meanings of the words, simply left-click them (especially useful when translating sentences). This is a good base, but not more - don't use sentences uncorrected..– christian.sJan 31, 2014 at 10:25
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@Em1 i don't want a bilingual ... regex is so helpful for my purpose since when i can find a phrase partially grammatically by using regex in various section(synonyms,verbal illustration,etymology ... ) of definition for words . then may i collect words correlate to each-others in some ways !– Fereydoon ShekofteJan 31, 2014 at 10:49
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dict.cc supports fuzzy search. Try *iater to search words ending on "iater" or "b??t" to search words of four letters with the first a b and the last a t (like boot/boat). Search is case-insensitive and always searches German and English.
Being this too long to be posted as a comment, it's been converted into an answer. You might be interested in the questions and answers given here:
Online dictionary where I can search for second half of compound noun
How to perform an advanced search of German nouns in Wiktionary restricting both gender and ending?
The title of this one doesn't sound like something you look for, but the answers given there might be helpful: Einsamkeit und Zweisamkeit
Here's your answer: http://www.dict.org/bin/Dict . Full regular expression support.
For example: How many words in the English language have all 5 vowels in order, exactly once?
Use this search expression:
^[^ -aeiou]*a[^ -aeiou]*e[^ -aeiou]*i[^ -aeiou]*o[^ -aeiou]*u[^ -aeiou]*$
To get 11 results (3 of them common words).
Take a look at the Langenscheidt/Collins Großwörterbuch Englisch or the PONS Großwörterbuch. Probably the most comprehensive one is Muret/Sanders Großwörterbuch Deutsch–Englisch, now also published by Langenscheidt.
