Monday, March 2, 2009

March Madness Begins!!! A Visual Dictionary!!!!


Let the March Madness begin!!!! Weather and Basketball!!!!


VisuWords is an online Visual Dictionary--very cool!!!

Click and go:
http://www.visuwords.com/

Check out this neat FREE graphical dictionary!

The Visuwords online graphical dictionary looks up words to find their
meanings and associations with other words and concepts. It produces
diagrams reminiscent of a neural net. Learn how words associate.

Enter words into the search box to look them up or double-click a node to
expand the tree. Click and drag the background to pan around and use the
mouse wheel to zoom. Hover over nodes to see the definition and click and
drag individual nodes to move them around to help clarify connections.
* It’s a dictionary! It’s a thesaurus!
* Great for writers, journalists, students, teachers, and artists.
* The online dictionary is available wherever there’s an internet
connection.
* No membership required.

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.

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