Tag: THESAURUS

Do you type a lot of SMS or Twitter messages? Watching your character count closely? Maybe you should check out the Thsrs, a new thesaurus from Ironic Sans. Put in the grandiloquent word you were planning to use, and it will give you a shorter synonym to help you save characters while still making sense. What inspired Thsrs? Well, David at Ironic Sans thought people needed a little help composing ...

In my opinion, selling software on a USB drive is a fantastic idea, and Merriam-Webster has taken it and run with it with their USB Dictionary & Thesaurus. It's a 256MB flash drive that includes MW's dictionary and thesaurus software, plus phonetic spelling correction, a grammar guide, and a "Confusables" function for correcting mistakes like their vs. there vs. they're. It also includes ...

Please don't call it a dictionary. It's "an online lexical reference system whose design is inspired by current psycholinguistic theories of human lexical memory." Actually it's pretty flippin' cool, that's what it is. WordNet goes beyond simple definitions and finds synonyms, hyponyms, hypernyms, and puts a word in context. It's based on synonym sets, or synsets, which map lexical ...