KWIC (Key Word In Context)
- KWIC
- A Key Word In Context (or KWIC) is a display of results in which the word searched for, the keyword, is in the centre surrounded by one line of context. This is how concordances are usually displayed. Here is an example that shows the occurrences of the word "dream" in A Midsummer Night's Dream in TACTweb:
I.1/577.1 | Four nights will quickly dream away the time; | And
I.1/578.2 Swift as a shadow, short as any dream; | Brief as the
II.2/585.1 | Ay me, for pity! what a dream was here! | Lysander,
III.2/591.1 this derision | Shall seem a dream and fruitless vision, |
IV.1/593.1 as the fierce vexation of a dream. | But first I will
IV.1/594.2 to me | That yet we sleep, we dream. Do not you think | The
IV.1/594.2 rare | vision. I have had a dream, past the wit of man to
IV.1/594.2 the wit of man to | say what dream it was: man is but an
IV.1/594.2 he go | about to expound this dream. Methought I was--there
IV.1/594.2 his heart to report, what my dream | was. I will get Peter
IV.1/594.2 to write a ballad of | this dream: it shall be called
IV.1/594.2 it shall be called Bottom's dream, | because it hath no
V.1/599.1 | Following darkness like a dream, | Now are frolic: not a
V.1/599.2 theme, | No more yielding but a dream, | Gentles, do not
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GeoffreyRockwell - 02 Jan 2007
