![]() It is the densest fur in the whole animal kingdom. The fur of the sea otter is exceptionally thick. In modern days, henna is often used for temporary tattoos. Henna has been used for centuries as a dye, for leather and wool as well as hair and skin. ![]() It is thought that carnival perhaps arose from the need to “eat and drink up” any excess food and drink before the beginning of Lent. The celebration of carnival comes right before the Lenten period in some Christian traditions. 27 Four-wheeler, briefly : ATVĪll-terrain vehicle (ATV) 33 Carnival city : RIO The term was imported in the 16th century from French, in which language it means “pencil”. We use the word “crayon” for a stick of colored wax used for drawing. “Et alii” (et al.) is the equivalent of “et cetera” (etc.), with “et cetera” being used in place of a list of objects, and “et alii” used for a list of names. That’s when users referred to AOL as “Always Off-Line”. During the heady days of AOL’s success the company could not keep up with the growing number of subscribers, so people trying to connect often encountered busy signals. As America Online went international, the acronym AOL was used in order to shake off the “America-centric” sound to the name. 19 Many a surfer : AOLERįounded as Quantum Computer Services in 1983, the company changed its name in 1989 to America Online. The name “cockatoo” probably comes from the Malay “kaka” (parrot) and “tuwah” (older sibling). 10 Cockatoo feature : CRESTĬockatoos are birds closely related to the true parrots. In the rummy-like game, a meld of seven cards or more is called a canasta. The card game canasta originated in Uruguay apparently, with “canasta” being the Spanish word for “basket”. “Bwana” is a Swahili word meaning “important person” or “leader of a safari”. To learn more, see the privacy policy.Today’s Wiki-est Amazonian Googlies Across 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 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. So this project, Reverse Dictionary, is meant to go hand-in-hand with Related Words to act as a word-finding and brainstorming toolset. 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). For example, if you type something like "longing for a time in the past", then the engine will return "nostalgia". 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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