thesaurus

A thesaurus is a reference work that contains synonyms and often antonyms of words. It is a popular tag because of their usefulness and free availability online.

Unlike dictionaries, a thesaurus does not contain definitions or pronunciations. Instead, if a person has a word in mind but it isn't quite right, they can look up the word in a thesaurus to find related or similar words.  Conversely, it can be used to find something that is the opposite of a particular word. 

The term is also used to describe a list of subject headings or descriptors assigned in a database, index, or catalog that can be used to search it. With either usage, there are both general and specialized versions.

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• Panlexicon: The Thesaurus cloud

  
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  Panlexicon is a tool for writers created by web developers Ben Sheldon and Rebecca White. It makes finding synonyms for words a breeze, instead of giving you a list to look through, like a Thesaurus, you get a Word Cloud where the most general terms appear in big letters and the more specific words in smaller ...
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• Visual Thesaurus ~ More Than Fancy Diagrams

  
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  I’ve talked about the Visual Thesaurus before in this blog and even recommended you pay $20/year to unlock all its features; but, you can still get a lot of value even if you can’t afford the subscription. If you’ve never seen the results of using this tool, here’s the image for the word “blog” And, […]
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• "Interview under Hypnosis" by Jennifer Militello

  
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  Ive been reading Body Thesaurus (Tupelo Press) , the new second collection by my friend Jennifer Militello, and asked her if I could post the following poem here. Interview under Hypnosis Describe what you would have seen had the roosters woken you ...
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• More at Visual Thesaurus

  
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  In case you haven’t been following me on Twitter or elsewhere, I’m the newest regular contributor to Visual Thesaurus . You can see my contributor page here . My latest article, “Orwell and Singular ‘They’” , grew out of an experience I had last summer as I was writing a feature article on singular ...
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• 17 Video Tutorials are available now: Learn how to use PoolParty – step by step!

  
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  Learn how to make use of PoolParty , step by step! Each video is about a specific feature or functionality of PoolParty Thesaurus Server or PoolParty Extractor. By walking through all the modules you learn how to use PoolParty for your Semantic Information Management. This series of tutorials has been produced in ...
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• Quick Pick: Thesaurus Rex by Dictionary.com

  
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  Whether you’re a student, writer or just someone who likes using big words, the Thesaurus is undoubtedly one of the best tools to have around. The largest resource on the web is Thesaurus.com (owned by Dictionary.com), and they’ve recently released  Thesaurus Rex , a universal iOS app that has 550,000 synonyms ...
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• Story Flaw Fixes, Part Two

  
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  Earlier this year, I blogged about common flaws that may prevent a story from being marketable. Perhaps a piece lacks action or reaction. Maybe its a victim of information overload. Or, its possible peat and repeat, repeat, repeat make the natural rhythm of the story drag. Id like you to grab that manuscript one ...
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• PoolParty: SKOS is the basis for Enterprise Knowledge Graphs

  
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  The latest release of PoolParty Thesaurus Server offers a comfortable GUI to extend SKOS thesauri by other RDF schemas in order to create highly linkable knowledge graphs which now can be deployed into a Virtuoso RDF database. In its core, PoolParty is built upon SKOS, W3C’s standard to define controlled ...
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