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Updated on May 25, 2012

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DICTIONARY REINVENTED with this new amazing visual English dictionary and thesaurus created in association with Oxford University Press and engineered exclusively for iPad from the ground up.

✓ Apple's iPad App of the Week in 66 countries

✓ #1 in educational sales in many countries

✓ Introductory price extended

✓ Follow the Support link for video demo

✓ Lots of enthusiastic reviews

"...Caution, if you are a word geek it's easy to spend hours."

"...TWIG's design reflecting on concepts of mind mapping and natural physical behaviour married with Oxford's premium content make it truly stand out."

"...Here is one of those 'wow' apps."

BETTER UNDERSTANDING OF STRUCTURE / EASIER WAY OF REMEMBERING INFORMATION:

In other dictionaries users read/scroll a lot to get what they want. TWIG is for creative people who learn smarter by getting to specific information faster and understanding its complexity more easily. Our mind needs structure and play to learn effectively. TWIG takes quality content, adds physical realism, and turns it into a positive learning experience. Learn and explore more intuitively and have fun along the way!

DISTINCT FEATURES:

• Tree-based view presented as a rich semantic/syntactic tree with realistic physical behaviour for understanding even complex entries with as much as 1000 nodes.
• Advanced technologies. Breaking the traditional boundaries of app. categories, TWIG combines rich educational content with immersive experience. To do so, it uses dynamic interface driven by a physics engine + efficient tree-structured database.
• Share word posters with friends via email, Twitter, Facebook, printer.
• Gestures. As young children point their fingers at words when learning, so TWIG makes you naturally do this while moving nodes around, tapping, scrolling, pinching/spreading and it's fun. Play with words, see how words collaborate, and see how you can interact with it to better organize your thoughts.
• For iPad only. No other dictionary deserves (or is deserved by) the iPad more. TWIG reinvents the dictionary using the best platform today.
• Multiple dictionary/thesaurus titles consolidated into one set.
• Complete audio pronunciations in UK/US English + tailor-made illustrations.
• A 'gigabyte' installation. All built in, no network needed. Unless, of course, you wish to share outputs.
• Flexible search with matches, hints, relatives and real-life sentences.
• Smart bookmarking remembering the exact point.
• Bird's-eye auto-zooming/centring.
• Smart expansion to expand entire/partial tree while keeping the work area tidy avoiding overlap and collisions. Watch as complex tree organically grows in front of you.

FOR PEOPLE WHO ARE:

✓ using language creatively (writing literature, journals, lyrics or other appealing text),
✓ looking for accurate equivalents respecting fine sense distinctions,
✓ studying English actively,
✓ looking to enrich their vocabulary,
✓ hobbyists exploring language, digging deep down into its finest semantic structures,
✓ having difficulties with traditional dictionaries.

WITH FULL CONTENT OF:

• Oxford Dictionary of English (ISBN9780199571123)
For many the best on the planet. Based on the "Oxford English Corpus", language databases, which amount to "hundreds of millions of words of written and spoken English”. Includes 355,000 words, phrases and definitions, 12,000 encyclopaedic entries and 68,000 examples carefully selected by the best experts in field.
• New Oxford American Dictionary (ISBN9780195392883)
Similar in extent and scope as the title above, drawing on the guidance of American scholars and advisers to offer a detailed picture of American English.
• Oxford Thesaurus of English (ISBN9780199560813)
Probably the best thesaurus out there offering more up-to-date and complete coverage of synonyms and antonyms than any other.