About the thesaurus

The thesaurus allows the system to return matches for related concepts to words or phrases contained in user queries.

It is a powerful tool that allows you to improve control over the vocabulary used in your application.

You can add two kinds of entries to your Endeca thesaurus:

One-way thesaurus entries establish an equivalence relationship between words or phrases that applies in a single direction only. For example, you could define a one-way mapping so that all queries on Tools would also return matches containing Hammers, but queries on Hammers would not return results for the more general term Tools.
Two-way thesaurus entries establish a mutual equivalence relationship between words or phrases. For example, an equivalence might specify that the phrase Mark Twain is interchangeable with the phrase Samuel Clemens.