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Is there an "article searcher" for a certain list of words?
If I want to practice some new English words, and I need to understand them in a better way- to read them in various articles, is there a tool for that?
For a set of very few words, search engines ...
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Usual combinations of nouns/verbs and prepositions
Following Macmillan Dictionary, we can find out that word list can be used together with the preposition of (example sentence: A list of the world’s richest people).
We are looking for a collection ...
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Proper definition of validation and verification [closed]
I'm trying to find a definite, peer-reviewed and generally accepted definition of the words validation and verification when applied in the context of data acceptance (computer science).
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A thesaurus with archaic and obsolete words [closed]
Can you point me to any online thesaurus that contains obsolete, archaic, out-of-use synonyms for contemporary words?
Google search is horribly unhelpful, yielding hundreds common thesaurus and ...
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Is there such a thing as an idiom thesaurus that delivers synonymous phrases? [closed]
Is there a resource that anyone knows of that is a searchable idiom list that can provide synonymous phrases for idioms. For example, I saw on your site: step-by-step, day-by-day, inch-by-inch, and ...
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Order of definitions in dictionaries
Are dictionary definitions for words with multiple meanings ordered based on chronology, hierarchy, or frequency of usage? Is/was there a standard format?
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Idiom thesaurus? [closed]
Can you recommend some searchable resource that maps given expression onto idioms meaning that thing?
There are quite a few dictionaries that contain a list of idioms containing a given word which is ...
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Good online thesaurus? [closed]
Does anyone know of a good online thesaurus? I've used http://thesaurus.com/ and http://www.merriam-webster.com/. Especially something that's good with phrases, figures of speech or idioms.
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Which thesaurus best describes the differences between several similar words? [closed]
Which thesaurus (online or paper) best describes the differences between several similar words? As a non-native English speaker, it is often difficult for me to distinguish the slightly different ...
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English synonym online database?
Is there a good english synonym database available in the Internet? I imagine that it should work like a translator: you enter a word and synonyms for this word are displayed.
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What are some good sites for researching etymology? [closed]
I'm wondering about the origins of a particular word and, while my first thought was to ask the ELU community, I decided I should do the work myself.
Where should I start looking? I'd love to see ...