org.crosswire.jsword.book.search
Interface Thesaurus

All Known Implementing Classes:

LuceneThesarus, NullThesaurus

public interface Thesaurus

A source of synonym data for a given word.

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Version:

$Id: Thesaurus.java,v 1.1 2004/09/29 22:21:23 joe Exp $

Author:

Joe Walker [joe at eireneh dot com]

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Method Summary

Collection

getSynonyms(String word) Return an array of words that are used by this Bible that start with the given string.

Method Detail

getSynonyms

Collection getSynonyms(String word)
                       throws BookException

Return an array of words that are used by this Bible that start with the given string. For example calling: getStartsWith("love") will return something like: { "love", "loves", "lover", "lovely", ... }

Parameters:

word - The word to base your word array on

Returns:

An array of words starting with the base

Throws:

BookException