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Wednesday, June 24, 2009  



Wordnik - An Ongoing Project Devoted to Discovering All the Words and Everything About Them
http://www.wordnik.com/

Wordnik wants to be a place for all the words, and everything known about them. Traditional dictionaries make you wait until they've found what they consider to be "enough" information about a word before they will show it to you. Wordnik knows you don't want to wait — if you're interested in a word, they are interested too! Their goal is to show you as much information as possible, just as fast as they can find it, for every word in English, and to give you a place where you can make your own opinions about words known. By "information," they don't just mean traditional definitions (although they have plenty of those)! This information could be: a) An example sentence — even if they have only found one sentence for a word, they will show it to you. (And they will show you where the sentence came from, too!); b) Related words: not just synonyms and antonyms, but words that are used in the same contexts. (For instance, cheeseburger, milkshake, and doughnut are not synonyms, but they show up in the same kinds of sentences.); c) Images tagged by their friends at Flickr: want to know what a "pout" looks like? They will show you; d) Statistics: how rare is "tintinnabulation"? Well, they think you'll see it only about once a year. "Smile"? You might see that word many times, every day; e) An audio pronunciation — and you can record your own!; and f) Something YOU tell us! Use the "Contribute" links to tell us something—anything—about a word. This has been added to the tools section of Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. This has been added to Reference Resources Subject Trace™ Information Blog.

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