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Wednesday, April 1, 2009

Dictionary, thesaurus, what else, oh my!

Lexipedia
Visual forms of a word categorized by nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, fuzzynyms, synonyms, and antonyms. Every grouping of language words is color coded. Nice! Scroll over the word in the web and a definition is displayed in a pop window along with a feature to have the word spoken to the listener! Don’t want all of the words in the web, click on the tool bar on the left and only show one category, i.e. verbs. In addition, suggested usage of the words is displayed. Six different languages are supported which allows for this tool to be used world wide. Similar to ThinkmapVisual Thesaurus and Visuwords online graphical dictionary .

Visuwords online graphical dictionary -- Look up words to find their meanings and associations with other words and concepts. Learn how words associate. Produce diagrams reminiscent of a neural net. Learn how words associate. Visuwords uses Princeton University’s WordNet, an opensource database built by University students and language researchers. Combined with a visualization tool and user interface built from a combination of modern web technologies, Visuwords is available as a free resource to all patrons of the web.

The Visual Thesaurus is an interactive dictionary and thesaurus which creates word maps that blossom with meanings and branch to related words. Its innovative display encourages exploration and learning. You'll understand language in a powerful new way. Of course you have to pay for it (subscription).

Weboword is a visual vocabulary website designed to help students learn new vocabulary words through hand-drawn, situation specific cartoons, drawings and sketches depicting the meaning of the words. Students are encouraged to submit their own drawings to Weboword. Weboword also offers crossword puzzles for students to try.

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2 comments:

  1. Thanks for these links!! They are fun!

    -w

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  2. Hi

    Thanks so much for writing about WeboWord on your blog! :) It gives us immense pleasure in welcoming you to http://weboword.ning.com - WeboWord Connect, where members can create and share their own visual vocab and we have been having creations being shared by many members! :)

    Look forward to having you and the students around you be a part of the Visual Vocab extravaganza! :D

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