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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• Happy Thesaurus Day!

  
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  Did you know that today is Thesaurus Day? Happy Birthday (1779) to Peter Mark Roget, author of Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases (now known as Roget’s Thesaurus ). So feel free to go out and celebrate, or . . . . beat the drum, bless, blow off steam, carouse, ceremonialize, commend, consecrate, dedicate, ...
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• It’s Thesaurus Day!

  
  life in the lost world... — Authority: 120
  Today is Thesaurus Day! Peter Mark Roget, the author of Roget’s Thesaurus, was born on this day in 1779. In 1840, Roget retired from a successful career in medicine and spent the rest of his life working on “Roget’s Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases.” He published his dictionary of synonyms in 1852. Since ...
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• Tiny Studies (Particle 3)

  
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• imTranslator speaks your language, and everyone else’s too!

  
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• The Dos and Don’ts of Using a Thesaurus for Marketing Copy

  
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• Textkraft – Now Supporting Apple iCloud®

  
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• Review: Word Atlas for iPad is a thesaurus in space.

  
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  Thesauruses always seem so lame. Either they have so many responses to weed through that are unrelated to your search or they return so few responses you cant find an acceptable synonym. The real problem is that thesauruses never really worked in practice. They give you linear lists. Synonyms are more about ...
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• But What Did You Get for Christmas, Courtney Stodden?

  
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• PREJUDICE FULLVERSION GAME

  
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