Special thanks to the contributors of the open-source code that was used in this project: Elastic Search, WordNet, and note that Reverse Dictionary uses third party scripts (such as Google Analytics and advertisements) which use cookies. The engine has indexed several million definitions so far, and at this stage its starting to give consistently good results (though it may return weird results. The definitions are sourced from the famous and open-source WordNet database, so a huge thanks to the many contributors for creating such an awesome free resource. In case you didn't notice, you can click on words in the search results and you'll be presented with the definition of that word (if available). For those interested, I also developed Describing Words which helps you find adjectives and interesting descriptors for things (e.g. Thank you for thinking of us Dean Stirm. So this project, Reverse Dictionary, is meant to go hand-in-hand with Related Words to act as a word-finding and brainstorming toolset. 185 views, 8 likes, 1 loves, 0 comments, 2 shares, Facebook Watch Videos from Shannon Harris - State Farm Agent: Anyway you slice it, you are amazing. That project is closer to a thesaurus in the sense that it returns synonyms for a word (or short phrase) query, but it also returns many broadly related words that aren't included in thesauri. I made this tool after working on Related Words which is a very similar tool, except it uses a bunch of algorithms and multiple databases to find similar words to a search query. So in a sense, this tool is a "search engine for words", or a sentence to word converter. It acts a lot like a thesaurus except that it allows you to search with a definition, rather than a single word. The engine has indexed several million definitions so far, and at this stage it's starting to give consistently good results (though it may return weird results sometimes). But winning pizza means far more than ordinary crust and toppings. For example, if you type something like "longing for a time in the past", then the engine will return "nostalgia". Any Way You Slice It An amazing pie is the sum of its parts Special Section Sponsored by the California Milk Advisory Board No other food says takeout and profitability more than pizza especially at a time when to-go is the only certainty in uncertain times. It simply looks through tonnes of dictionary definitions and grabs the ones that most closely match your search query. The way Reverse Dictionary works is pretty simple.
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