Re: synonym for "based" as in "based on"?

[cpwinter -at- rahul -dot- net]

On 30 Sep 2002, at 11:24, Ruby Isaacs wrote:

> 
> What is a good synonym for the word "based" as in the phrase "based on"?
> 
> A client has inserted the phrase "based on" after the phrase "Web-based
> tool" in an introductory sentence. I'd like to keep the phrase "Web-based
> tool" because I think most people will understand it.
> 
> Here is the current text:
> "... Online is a Web-based tool based on the report ...."
> 
> Before the client changed it, the old text stated:
> "... Online is a Web-based tool that provides statistical data from the
> report ...."
> 
> Thanks.
> Ruby
> 
> 

    There are several. "Dependent on" is the one that springs to my mind --
 as in "a Web-based tool dependent on...". You may think that sounds a 
little too academic. So do I.

    Other possibilities: "Founded on"; "built on", "making use of"; 
"employing". As well as their variants, of course.

HTH,
Chris


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