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Reverse Dictionary

3 pointsby omarfarooqover 3 years ago

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dane-pgpover 3 years ago
This is incredible. I remember a debate online (possibly on this site), years ago, where someone wished there were such thing as a reverse dictionary for when you know a word exists, but you can&#x27;t remember how to spell it.<p>I think the opposing side was arguing that you could just do a web search, which is maybe true, but the specific example given was someone who knew there was a medical condition beginning with &quot;C&quot; which is something to do with how the body processes wheat.<p>Sure enough, this search page finds it as result number 82:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.onelook.com&#x2F;reverse-dictionary.shtml?s=wheat&amp;f_sw=c" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.onelook.com&#x2F;reverse-dictionary.shtml?s=wheat&amp;f_s...</a>
leed25dover 3 years ago
The OneLook ecosystem has been available on DuckDuckGo for quite some time as a &#x27;bang&#x27; search. Open a DDG search and type<p><pre><code> !o lunch </code></pre> for instance. Then click on the &#x27;related words&#x27; button to get the thesaurus.<p>Bang commands area very nice feature of the DDG search engine.