How to use the dictionary

You can use this dictionary to find the meanings and translations of words related to the field of internal security.

There are two kinds of search:

1. Simple Word Search
2. Topic Word Search
3. Word Search in a Topic

You can search for headwords which are nouns, verbs, adjectives or adverbs or combinations of adjective + noun and noun + noun and verb + noun. The dictionary also includes phrasal verbs.

1. Simple Word Search

Enter the search word in the box above and click on which kind of results you want to have: English only; English and Estonian; Estonian and English; English and Latvian or Latvian and English; English and Russian; Russian and English.

Leave the topic field blank and click on ‘Search’.

The dictionary will either display the word you chose or will give you a results page where you have to choose which entry you want to view.

If you search for police the results page will give you ‘police’ as a noun, as a verb and as a noun + noun combination: ‘police officer’.

Try searching for these test words: criminal; evidence; smoulder; cartridge.

2. Topic Word Search

Leave the ‘Words’ field blank and select a topic from the ‘Topics’ drop down menu.

Again choose the kind of results you want: English only; English and Estonian; Estonian and English; English and Latvian or Latvian and English; English and Russian; Russian and English. 

You will be presented with a list of all the words in the dictionary included under the topic.

These are the words chosen by teachers as being especially important for this topic.

3. Word Search in a Topic

You can search for a word in a topic by combining the two searches above. Please note that the word might be included in another topic.