Comments on: Ninjawords http://mendicantbug.com/2007/12/15/ninjawords/ Wanderings into computational linguistics, science, social media and life... Mon, 23 Apr 2012 02:02:52 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Jason Adams http://mendicantbug.com/2007/12/15/ninjawords/#comment-388 Thu, 20 Dec 2007 04:45:34 +0000 http://mendicantbug.com/2007/12/15/ninjawords/#comment-388 Yeah good point. I keep my google toolbar hidden since i’m on a widescreen laptop with 1280×800. The hope is to maximize the vertical real estate given to web pages (which feels woefully lacking on occasion).

]]> By: jhumphries http://mendicantbug.com/2007/12/15/ninjawords/#comment-386 Thu, 20 Dec 2007 04:37:23 +0000 http://mendicantbug.com/2007/12/15/ninjawords/#comment-386 Using Google Toolbar in Firefox I can do this in about 3 seconds per word:

Click in the Google Toolbar search textbox
Type “define:” and then type the word
Google Toolbar provides generally good suggestions so you typically don’t have to type the whole word

This provides multiple definitions from multiple sources when available (sometimes lots). And, each definition has a link to the source, so if Dictionary.com is a source, you could click the link to get root words or etymology. Its search includes Wikipedia, too, so you can even do something like “define:masters of the universe” and get meaningful results.

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