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Captivated By Words? You'll Love Wordnik
This online dictionary is not your normal dictionary.
You may never use a traditional dictionary again. What makes Wordnik so special?
In their words "Wordnik is a place for all the words, and everything known about them.
Our goal is to show you as much information as possible, as fast as we can find it, for every word in English, and to give you a place where you can make your own opinions about words known."
In my words, well, it's a little startling to look something up on Wordnik. When you look up a word, you don't get just a definition. You get one or more example sentences that use the word. You get related words. You get charts, images from flickr tagged with the word you entered, pronunciations, etymologies, tags, twitter segments and yes, definitions by traditional dictionaries. It's fun to look things up using Wordnik - take it for a spin and see what you think.
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Rhiannon
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This a fine resource for anyone with basic word skills who would like to broaden their descriptive vocabulary.
Scramulous:
Glad you like it. :)
Sure, this is the best dictionary I have ever discovered, using it for more than a year noun. what I really like about this dictionary is the example sentences. English is my second language and sometimes I need to use new vocabularies in my composition. To make sure that the new word is in the right context, I check the sentences that people made with that word. Very helpful!
1Delu:
I like it too. I can see how it would be helpful if English is a second language, and there are those of us whose first language is English whom would benefit as well. :)
Since you claim English as your first Language, I must warn you that your use of 'whom' is incorrect. By the way, I read your stuff all the time and love it! And seldom find your grammer anything but good.
Good catch Arthur, thanks. :)
It is too American to be of any use in other countries. For example, the mention of Scrabble suitability ignores the SOWPODS wordlist. Wildcards would be handy as well.
If you deliberately type a word in incorrectly, it will not correct you and will even give you examples of it's use!! Try personnification, or persumptious as I did to see.
Therefore in my eyes, it's useless.
I let it pick a random word for me and it come out "understnad". Looks like a lot of people type this word wrong? Viewed 4 times.
Looks like it. There's been some coverage about people who register domains of companies that are prone to being misspelled. Many of them set up phishing (or other trap) sites.
If I'm not paying close attention, I'll spell Microsoft wrong every time.
When I look up something at a dictionary or thesaurus and spell it wrong, I usually get message that there is no entry matching what I typed.
Google and Bing search are good about making corrections.
Thanks again Rhi
Here's the Search Engine Addon link
supported by Firefox 2/3, Internet Explorer 7/8 and Google Chrome
http://mycroft.mozdev.org/search-engines.html?name=wordnik
@Endallian
Thanks for that - the Mycroft project has great stuff. :)
Those using Opera should right click on the search field and click "Create Search".
Have been using Wordnik for over a year and love it. Everything in one place. Only place I've been able to find Etymologies as well.
An awesome site, thanks!
1. No wonder I like the possibilities of genetics:
2. If you have been Nerkled lately and if you are unattractive and inept while also accomplished in scientific or technical pursuits, then you might be a nerd!
http://www.wordnik.com/words/nerd
Well, I tried looking up geek. The first example provided by WordNik was:
Any adult male heterosexual who says he isn't never turned on by pub3scent girls is a li4r or a geek, and you can tell him Bad Bobby said so. — Fierce Invalids Home From Hot Climates
Ooops...
LOL! Well, it does show a usage of the word geek. Inaccurate, as geeks come in all genders. And, I would say it looks like there's more than a little projection going on there......... :)
Geek
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=geek
There are certain signs to being a geek and not a nerd. You would be a geek if:
1. You have a "My other car is a Millenium Falcon" bumper sticker on your car.
2. You think your retainer resembles a Klingon Warship.
3. You can can tell what speed a computer is connecting just by the sound the modem makes.
4. You think your computer speaks to you in English.
5. You can write papers in Binary.
6. You use a VoiceModem headset when making calls.
7. Your idea of a house party is snacking on Rice Krispy Treats and watching Tron.
8. You've seen The Guyver.
9. You have the TIE Fighter ion cannon as your ringtone.
10. You call your bedroom the Fortress of Solitude.
For comparison, Geek in Wiktionary.
And I seriously thought 'geek' was a sort of achaean typo...
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