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08/20/2006 10:16:28 PM · #1 |
Know it´s not a dictionary I am looking for, I just don´t know what it´s called. One of those dictionarys you use when you work as a writer, like you want new words for the same thing.
I mean is you enter "good" for example and the dictionary tells you different words that mean the same thing, and if you enter "good" you´d get words like "excellent, fabulous, great" and stuff like that. Am I making any sense? |
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08/20/2006 10:17:09 PM · #2 |
//www.dictionary.com
It also has a thesaurus portion to it
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08/20/2006 10:17:15 PM · #3 |
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08/20/2006 10:18:19 PM · #4 |
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08/20/2006 10:20:23 PM · #5 |
| Thanx you guys, found what I was looking for, thesaurus was the word I was meaning :) |
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08/20/2006 10:48:19 PM · #6 |
thesaurus.com too
Also, sometimes wikipedia.com helps as well. |
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08/20/2006 10:58:56 PM · #7 |
| What's another word for thesaurus? |
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08/20/2006 11:04:54 PM · #8 |
I know it's an old joke. It just has to be said...
Q: What's a dinasaur with a big vocabulary?
A: A Thesaurus
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08/20/2006 11:22:50 PM · #9 |
If all else fails, it's easy enough to go to Google, and type in define: bird
You will get more than you know what to do with:
Related phrases: bird of paradise bird of prey bird dog freedom bird bird screen bird cherry early bird free as a bird frigate bird larry bird
Definitions of bird on the Web:
* warm-blooded egg-laying vertebrates characterized by feathers and forelimbs modified as wings
* the flesh of a bird or fowl (wild or domestic) used as food
* dame: informal terms for a (young) woman
* boo: a cry or noise made to express displeasure or contempt
* watch and study birds in their natural habitat
* shuttlecock: badminton equipment consisting of a ball of cork or rubber with a crown of feathers
wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn
* The International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD, in Romance languages: BIRD), better known as the World Bank, is an international organization whose original mission was to finance the reconstruction of nations devastated by WWII. Now, its mission has expanded to fight poverty by means of financing states. Its operation is maintained through payments as regulated by member states. ...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BIRD
* An alternative name for a satellite.
//www.satisfied-mind.com/directv/glossary.htm
* Birds figure to a large extent in heraldry, and represent the contemplative as well as active life. Among those used with the greatest frequency are the following:
digiserve.com/heraldry/pimb_b.htm
* A communication satellite
//www.indiainfoline.com/bisc/accb.html
* Birds are divided in the Mosaic law into two classes, (1) the clean (Lev. 1:14-17; 5:7-10; 14:4-7), which were offered in sacrifice; and (2) the unclean (Lev. 11:13-20). When offered in sacrifice, they were not divided as other victims were (Gen. 15:10). They are mentioned also as an article of food (Deut. 14:11). The art of snaring wild birds is referred to (Ps. 124:7; Prov. 1:17; 7:23; Jer. 5:27). Singing birds are mentioned in Ps. 104:12; Eccl. 12:4. Their timidity is alluded to (Hos. ...
//www.ccel.org/ccel/easton/ebd2.b.html
* Warm-blooded, feathered animals from the Chordate Phylum. Birds usually move by flying, and they have hollow bones which make them light enough to do so. Birds build nests and lay eggs.
//www.fcps.k12.va.us/StratfordLandingES/Ecology/mpages/glossary.htm
* a device with moveable vanes attached to a marine seismic streamer to maintain the streamer at a predetermined depth.
//www.bakerhughes.com/investor/resources/oil_glossary_a_c.htm
* Any of a class of vertebrates that regulate their body temperature internally, have bodies that are covered almost entirely with feathers and have forelimbs modified as wings that enable most to fly.
//www.ncforestry.org/docs/Glossary/term.htm
* Military slang -- Any aircraft, rotary or fixed wing.
capmarine.com/cap/glossary.htm
* Male bird, female bird; cock bird, hen bird.
//www.bartleby.com/81/7067.html
* A common name for the pod towed beneath or behind an aircraft, carrying the geophysical sensor array.
//www.fugroairborne.com.au/Resources/glossary.shtml
* Birds live in the air, the world of the pure intellect. Birds in a dream symbolize intellectual matters.
//www.findyourfate.com/dreams/b.htm
* A bird is merely a slang term to describe a satellite in orbit. In the case of satellite TV, those birds beam an uninterrupted signal down to earth that contains millions of bytes of condensed programming. The term hotbird is most often used in the context of European satellites offering Europeans satellite programming. Currently there are 4,000 birds orbiting the earth and each year more and more are launched into our orbit.
//www.repair-home.com/Glossary_Terms.html
* any of a class (Aves) of endothermic vertebrates distinguished by having
//www.elcct.org/Indian%20Rock/FallFoliageVocab.htm
* (1) A person. (2) A girl.
//www.anu.edu.au/andc/res/aehist/wwi/B1.php
* Any of several bulbous plants of the genus Tulipa, native chiefly to Asia and widely cultivated for their showy, variously colored flowers.
//www.teach-nology.com/worksheets/misc/spring/quiz/
* any aircraft, usually helicopters
//www.duprel.com/usmcgeocitiespaid/militaryterms.html
Find definitions of bird in: Dutch English French German Portuguese Spanish all languages
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08/20/2006 11:24:01 PM · #10 |
What's another word for "thesaurus?"
;D
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08/20/2006 11:32:17 PM · #11 |
Originally posted by karmabreeze:
What's another word for "thesaurus?"
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Lexicon is close ...
The top of the dinosaur food chain linguistics-wise was Tyranthesaurus lex or "king of the tyrant wordsmiths."
LEXICOGRAPHER, n. A pestilent fellow who, under the pretense of recording some particular stage in the development of a language, does what he can to arrest its growth, stiffen its flexibility and mechanize its methods. For your lexicographer, having written his dictionary, comes to be considered "as one having authority," whereas his function is only to make a record, not to give a law. The natural servility of the human understanding having invested him with judicial power, surrenders its right of reason and submits itself to a chronicle as if it were a statue. Let the dictionary (for example) mark a good word as "obsolete" or "obsolescent" and few men thereafter venture to use it, whatever their need of it and however desirable its restoration to favor -- whereby the process of improverishment is accelerated and speech decays. On the contrary, recognizing the truth that language must grow by innovation if it grow at all, makes new words and uses the old in an unfamiliar sense, has no following and is tartly reminded that "it isn't in the dictionary" -- although down to the time of the first lexicographer (Heaven forgive him!) no author ever had used a word that _was_ in the dictionary. In the golden prime and high noon of English speech; when from the lips of the great Elizabethans fell words that made their own meaning and carried it in their very sound; when a Shakespeare and a Bacon were possible, and the language now rapidly perishing at one end and slowly renewed at the other was in vigorous growth and hardy preservation -- sweeter than honey and stronger than a lion -- the lexicographer was a person unknown, the dictionary a creation which his Creator had not created him to create.
God said: "Let Spirit perish into Form,"
And lexicographers arose, a swarm!
Thought fled and left her clothing, which they took,
And catalogued each garment in a book.
Now, from her leafy covert when she cries:
"Give me my clothes and I'll return," they rise
And scan the list, and say without compassion:
"Excuse us -- they are mostly out of fashion."
Sigismund Smith
Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914), The Devil's Dictionary
Message edited by author 2006-08-20 23:37:12. |
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