This dictionary will help you to find the word on the tip of your tongue. Unlike you a thesaurus, where you look up alternatives to a word you know, or a dictionary which defines a word you are already familiar with, The Oxford Reverse Dictionary will help you to find words you do know, or are vaguely aware of, but cannot bring to mind. There are 31,000 entries grouped under a wide range of key words. The words listed may be alternative words for the headword, or words that are related to that subject.
Added by: saeedmg | Karma: 67.73 | Dictionaries and Encyclopedias, Software | 17 March 2018
6
Flip Dictionary For Babylon Software
Dr. Barbara Ann Kipfer is a Research and Dictionary Specialist with Ask Jeeves, the Internet question-answering service. She is the author of twenty-one books, including Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, 21st Century Spelling Dictionary, 21st Century Manual of Style (Dell/Laurel), The Order of Things (Random House), Dictionary of American Slang (with R. Chapman; HarperCollins), Sissons Word and Expression Locater (Prentice-Hall),
Covering over 10,000 idioms and collocations characterized by similarity in their wording or metaphorical idea which do not show corresponding similarity in their meanings, this dictionary presents a unique cross-section of the English language. Though it is designed specifically to assist readers in avoiding the use of inappropriate or erroneous phrases, the book can also be used as a regular phraseological dictionary providing definitions to individual idioms, cliches, and set expressions. Most phrases included in the dictionary are in active current use, making information about their meanings and usage essential to language learners at all levels of proficiency.
In Dictionary of Proverbs and Their Origins, Linda and Roger Flavell trace the origins and histories of over 400 proverbs, detailing the changes of meaning and usage that have occurred throughout each proverb's life and offering literary examples dating back over 2,000 years. Entries have been selected because they have a tale to tell and because they are pithily, even wittily phrased, offering, as Cervantes put it, "short sentences drawn from long experience."
