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Entering search terms
Searching for one word
Entering a word in the text field will give you all the expressions containing that word
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| oil | Expressions containing the word oil |
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Searching for several words
Entering more than one word in the text field will give you all the expressions containing one or more of the words entered. You can state that the expressions must either include a word or not include it by placing the '+' or '-' sign respectively in front of that word. If there is just one word without either the '+' or the '-' sign and there is no other word with the "+" sign, then the latter must be included in the results (the previous case is a special example of this rule).
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| oil olive | Expressions containing the words oil or olive |
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| oil -olive | Expressions without the word olive (but with the word oil , since there are no words marked with the + sign) |
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| oil +olive | e Expressions containing the word olive (may or may not contain the word oil ) |
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Wildcards
The '*' symbol stands for zero characters or more than one character. The '?' symbol stands for one character.
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| electr* | Expressions containing a word beginning with electr |
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| +oil* +olive | Expressions containing a word beginning with oil and also the word olive |
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| electr*d* | |
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| dis?s | |
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Searching for phrases
Placing quotation marks ("...") around one or more words means that you are searching for these words in the order given.
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| "text books" | Expressions containing the term text books |
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