February 6, 2012
Dictionary.com and its resources make it almost a portal that takes you on a journey of word discoveries. Word has it that it is probably the most frequented of online dictionary and reference sources on the web. Why not – after all you can do much more than merely look up a word here. Try these 8 for starters.
November 14, 2011
A while back, I wrote a little bit about Tagdef, an online Twitter hashtag dictionary. Just as a recap, it’s a whole lot like the old Urban Dictionary, something that most of us have visited at one time or another. However, what if you could take the original Urban Dictionary and bring it to life? Enter Vifinition, a spiritual successor of the original Urban Dictionary.
August 18, 2011
A dictionary used to be a heavy book, difficult to lug around. If you came across a word you didn’t quite understand, you might have just tried to figure out what it means based on the context. Then the Internet came along, and dictionaries went online. Then mobile devices started landing in people’s pockets, making online dictionaries even more accessible.
May 31, 2011
Looking up words for their meanings and definitions is no big deal. A glut of free online dictionaries has made it a matter of a selection and click. Helping you further are right-click context menu searches, browser add-ons and extensions like the seven we cover here.
March 7, 2011
It is said that the French are very particular about their language and the way it’s spoken. Pronouncing French words is rather difficult as it has lots of silent letters and syllables; even a single letter pronounced in different ways. But wait: is English any different? In fact, we may not be paying attention because [...]
January 31, 2011
I just returned from the hospital. The consulting physician threw around words like “˜Endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography’ without a stutter, but my brain hit a pothole. He went straight ahead to other words which made the health problem seem quite acute. Blame it on the medical words or blame it on my relative lack of medical [...]
December 13, 2010
Trying to keep up with lots of blogs and useful articles on the web can certainly help you learn lots of technical lingo and expand your vocabulary. Thus, it makes sense to want to find a seamless way to define words instead of having to Google search on a new tab every single time. There [...]
November 16, 2010
Synonyms are words you use when you can’t spell the first one. Okay, that’s just a joke”¦or a quip”¦or a wisecrack”¦or a jest, jive, or jape. But I think you get my point. Synonyms allow us never to be at a loss for words. If you know your synonyms, you are not only richer for [...]
October 22, 2010
A few days back, we had taken a look at a few resources which helped us with slangs and day to day jargons. Street language sounds hep and helps us to keep up with the times. But it also limits our vocabulary. There’s a word in the English language for every instance, provided we care [...]
October 12, 2010
Even Shakespeare used slang. A simple internet search reveals that. It’s a different story that his lingo influenced most of the English language. That’s the story with a lot of street-speak and jargon. Slang words don’t mind that they are not a part of Webster’s or Roget’s. It is just a matter of time before [...]
