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module com { module sun { module star { module linguistic2 {

/** allows searching for an entry in all dictionaries of the dictionary-list.

    <P> Only active dictionaries of a suitable language will be searched
    for the entry.
    The language is suitable if it is the same as the dictionary's language or
    the dictionary may hold entries of all languages.
    <P>

    @see com::sun::star::linguistic2::XDictionaryList
*/
published interface XSearchableDictionaryList : com::sun::star::linguistic2::XDictionaryList
{
    /** looks for an entry for a given word in the list of dictionaries.

        @returns
            the dictionary entry that was found, `NULL` otherwise.

        @param aWord
            the word (entry) to be looked for.

        @param aLocale
            the language of the word to be looked for.

        @param bSearchPosDics
            `TRUE` if only positive dictionaries should be searched.
            `FALSE` if only negative dictionaries should be searched.

        @param bSpellEntry
            `TRUE` if entries for purposes of spell checking are required.
            `FALSE` if only entries for hyphenation purposes are required.
*/
    com::sun::star::linguistic2::XDictionaryEntry   queryDictionaryEntry(
        [in] string  aWord ,
        [in] com::sun::star::lang::Locale  aLocale,
        [in] boolean bSearchPosDics,
        [in] boolean bSpellEntry );

};


}; }; }; };


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