[etni] Fw: re: A question of a reverse dictionary
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- Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2007 23:31:33 +0300
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From: "Danny Chernobrov" <danicc60@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: RE: A question of a reverse dictionary
Hello Henry,
The OneLook reverse dictionary can help you with what your looking for, it
gives you a list of words that match your defintion. However, the
definition
needs to be concise and accurate otherwise you will get a whole list of
undesired words.
here is the link:
http://www.onelook.com/reverse-dictionary.shtml
I hope it helps,
Daniel Chernobrov
Henry wrote:
Some 15 years ago, while I was teaching at NYU, I was friendly with a
visiting Israeli professor of mathematics. I taught him an English word
which was completely new to him at the time. The word was: "ubiquitous".
Its meaning is: to be found everywhere at all times.
Of late I just couldn't recall this word, no matter how hard I tried. It
suddenly came to me this morning in bed.
Now I was wondering whether, in these days of such sophisticated computers,
there is what I would call "a reverse dictionary", one in which I could
enter the descriptive meaning and come up with the single sought-after
word. Naturally, I would prefer it if it were available on the Internet, if
it existed at all. If such a program doesn't yet exist, I would submit that
it would a valuable contribution to the English language.
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