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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• Big Huge Thesaurus

  
  iLearn Technology — Authority: 123
  What it is: Big Huge Thesaurus is a must add to your classroom publishing center.  The tag line of Big Huge Thesaurus says it all: “synonyms, antonyms, and rhymes (oh my!)”.  Big Huge Thesaurus goes beyond other online thesauruses by giving students a wealth of synonyms (for each part of speech), words ...
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• Historical Thesaurus: On dealing with the press interest

  
  OUPblog — Authority: 745
  Our Historical Thesaurus of the Oxford English Dictionary expert, Professor Christian Kay , blogs about the numerous press enquiries and interviews in the wake of the HTOED’s publication. To read more about the HTOED click here . An unexpected outcome of the publication of HTOED was the interest it generated ...
  6 days ago

• The Visual Thesaurus

  
  Amnesia Blog — Authority: 467
  From the vault: I do like this visual thesaurus tool/website http://www.visualthesaurus.com . Creatively it’s never easy finding that perfect word but this tool makes life a lot easier. Hopping between words is effortless and the definitions are always to hand. The default animation can be a little distracting at ...
  6 days ago

• English Dictionary & Thesaurus for BlackBerry with Local Storage

  
  BerryReview.com — Authority: 630
  Chocolate Chunk Apps let me know that they released their English Dictionary & Thesaurus. The coolest part about this app is that the database is stored on your devices SD card so you do not need a internet connection for it to work. That means you have a 26mb database of 250,000 entries and 1.6 million words in ...
  1 week ago

• Historical Thesaurus: On Categories

  
  OUPblog — Authority: 745
  Today, Professor Christian Kay from the Historical Thesaurus of the Oxford English Dictionary team talks about categorization in the HTOED. Click here for more posts about the Historical Thesaurus. When I first came to Glasgow, I was puzzled by children ringing my doorbell and asking, “Goat ony ginger ...
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• Apple A Day: Dictionary.com

  
  Macgasm — Authority: 443
  Dictionary.com is a free dictionary and thesaurus application for the iPhone and iPod Touch.
  2 weeks ago

• Franklin MWD-1490 Merriam-Webster Dictionary and Thesaurus with Comprehensive Reference Set

  
  ANGGA dot WEB dot ID — Authority: 146
  300,000 word dictionary with complete definitions, 500,000 synonyms and antonyms Merriam-Webster vocbulary builder, punctuation guide, geographical and biographical dictionaries Eight reference titles with 4-language translator Includes batteries Product Description Write, edit or proo-read like a pro with ...
  2 weeks ago

• Where Can I Get Visual Thesaurus Coupons? How Can I Use Visual Thesaurus Coupon Codes?

  
  Wael Isa — Authority: 149
  About Visual Thesaurus Thinkmap, Inc. was founded in 1997 as Plumb Design, Inc. In 2004, we changed our name to Thinkmap to better capitalize on growing demand for our visualization solutions based on the Thinkmap platform. To learn more about this change, see the press release. Thinkmap, the technology that underlies ...
  2 weeks ago

• Historical Thesaurus: On Kinship

  
  OUPblog — Authority: 745
  Continuing on from our Historical Thesaurus week , I’m delighted to be able to bring you another wonderful original post from Professor Christian Kay , who headed up the project. Today she tells us about one of her favourite sections of the HTOED : kinship. You can read her previous OUPblog post here . One ...
  2 weeks ago

• Enter Single Text In Different Directories In Different Types – Synonymizer !

  
  vhxn.com — Authority: 441
  Now it is easy to spin text contents into various forms for using it in different purposes like submitting in web directories, article directories, Web 2.0 sites, blogs etc. At the same time, it is so simple to use, as it has only one function and everything adapted in a function. If you are going to use it, you have ...
  2 weeks ago

• WORDWEB FREE VERSION

  
  World Internet Summit Speakers — Authority: 135
  This is a great little tool, WordWeb. Wordweb is a one-click English thesaurus and dictionary for Windows. You can use it to look up words in almost any program. It can also look up words in web references such as the Wikipedia encyclopedia. The following is features that the free version provides: -Definitions and ...
  3 weeks ago

• Franklin Merriam Webster Advanced Dictionary and Thesaurus With Spell Correction

  
  ANGGA dot WEB dot ID — Authority: 146
  400,000 Definitions Thesaurus with 500,000 Synonyms and Antonyms Phonetic spell correction 5 Language Translator Biographical and Geographical Dictionaries Product Description This handheld learning tool from Franklin is ideal for Junior High School and University students who want to write more effectively. ...
  3 weeks ago

• Handmark launches six new Android apps

  
  PhoneArea.net — Authority: 453
  Handmark is obviously serious when it comes to committing its resources towards the Android platform. In that sense, the mobile software maker has launched 6 new applications: New Oxford American Dictionary…
  3 weeks ago

• Historical Thesaurus

  
  Sue Guiney: Writing Life — Authority: 117
  Heres a confession.  I am an absolutely addicted devotee of Rogets Thesaurus .  I have been one since my fourth grade teacher had us write a piece called "A Surrendipitous Journey" using as many adjectives as possible.  To this day, I never write a sentence, be it in prose or poetry, without my trusty, well-used ...
  3 weeks ago

• Portformat “The Repeat Factor”

  
  MOOVMNT.com — Authority: 500
  Shooting to Sirius and beyond, the intense and intergalactic slowmotion grooves of Portformat finally hit space! NASA-compatible Hip Hop Funkadelica is what to expect on Portformat’s debut album released into orbit, musically combining space themes of the 70’s with the golden moments of 90’s R’nB. Shooting ...
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• How to Call Someone “Stupid” in Old English Historical Thesaurus Week

  
  OUPblog — Authority: 745
  Lauren, Publicity Assistant It’s sad, but true. Historical Thesaurus week has come to an end. We feel like we’ve read it cover to cover (to cover to cover) and it’s hard to let go. And so, I’d like to leave you with a valuable lesson I learned: how to use the HTOED to call someone “stupid” in Old ...
  3 weeks ago

• Ammon Shea Digs Into the Historical Thesaurus Historical Thesaurus Week

  
  OUPblog — Authority: 745
  Lauren, Publicity Assistant Ammon Shea is a vocabularian, lexicographer, and the author of Reading the OED: One Man, One Year, 21,730 Pages . In the videos below, he discusses the evolution of terms like “Love Affair” and names of diseases, as traced in the Historical Thesaurus of the Oxford English ...
  3 weeks ago

• Rewriting The Gettysburg Address: Historical Thesaurus Week

  
  OUPblog — Authority: 745
  Welcome to Historical Thesaurus Week on the OUPblog! Every day this week we will be looking at the first historical thesaurus to be written for any of the world’s languages, the Historical Thesaurus of the Oxford English Dictionary . Conceived and complied by the English Language Department of the University ...
  4 weeks ago

• links

  
  Ask Nicola — Authority: 470
  Ive seen a handful of things in the last week that are worth blogging about. But Im in Hild mode, so instead of pondering these things at length, let me simply link to them. Over at Lee Winds blog (Im Here. Im Queer. What the Hell do I read?), theres another infuriating tale of censorship, this time from ...
  4 weeks ago

• Chocolate is my ... weakness?

  
  Ask MetaFilter — Authority: 648
  A friend and I are looking for a certain word... it would be related to loving something so much it makes you go weak. Both of us believe theres a word for this but we cant quite put our finger on it.It could possibly be used in this context: "Chocolate is my _____." The closest word we can come up with is: weakness. ...
  4 weeks ago

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