So I decided to write my own command-line thesaurus, using a site that offered a thesaurus API.
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Let's say it together, folks: These campaigns need a thesaurus.
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The Thesaurus function for editors must have been on overdrive.
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In 2016, let's crack open the thesaurus when we're composing our headlines.
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It also works as a straightforward thesaurus, providing synonyms and related words.
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No thesaurus at the ready and no industry speak, just straight-talk.
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In addition to those new exercices, Reverso now has an integrated thesaurus.
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If yes, has the dictionary (or thesaurus) helped you to develop it?
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But generally, my brother and I developed a sort of thesaurus for ourselves.
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It was his bold descent into his thesaurus, a sort of semantic spelunking.
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Writing About Pet Peeves Thank You, Thesaurus: Experimenting With the Right Word vs.
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The president needs a thesaurus and a therapist, though not necessarily in that order.
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No one reads the American Heritage Dictionary or Roget's Thesaurus from cover to cover.
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"Author much used by other authors" is PETER ROGET, the creator of Roget's Thesaurus.
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Researchers in Germany have been working on the Thesaurus Linguae Latinae since the 290s.
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But far be it from me to come between a reviewer and his thesaurus.
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Investigadores en Alemania trabajan en el Thesaurus Linguae Latinae desde la década de 2100.
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Speaking offered a sense of community, the rare chance to crowdsource my personal thesaurus.
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They loved language, drawing on both Roget's Thesaurus and Groucho Marx — and the Virgin Mary.
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They loved language, drawing on both Roget's Thesaurus and Groucho Marx — and the Virgin Mary.
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Criticising his application demands nothing more than consultation with your thesaurus. Indolent. Lethargic. Lackadaisical. Languid. Uninterested.
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Reverso Synonyms is a thesaurus service that lets you learn new words and improve your vocabulary.
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Thesaurus, encyclopedia, dictionary, all of that next to me at all times: Eat a fucking dick.
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DON'T — KEEP A THESAURUS WITHIN REACHING DISTANCE I know, I know, there's one at your fingertips.
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An excerpt from the Latin thesaurus that has been in the works for over 100 years.
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A thesaurus may list the two words as synonyms, but Day does not consider them interchangeable.
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The highly influential conceptual artist Mel Bochner recapitulates his 50-year dalliance with the English thesaurus.
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Bonus: it's got a built-in dictionary and thesaurus, in case Trump feels like expanding his vocabulary.
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Those are the type of names where I can really tell somebody went straight to the thesaurus.
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After the vote, the Fed's official stance is then described using words carefully chosen from a thesaurus.
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She kept a leather-bound crossword puzzle dictionary, a kind of thesaurus with synonyms listed by length.
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And in fact, if you look up spy in the thesaurus, it says, quote, secret or undercover agent.
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An hour of words like "lapidary" and "Hanseatic" landed him $100 in prize money, a dictionary and thesaurus.
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Right now, I'm team "Notionless" because the designer wanted to get to lunch and hit the thesaurus pic.twitter.
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The John Ashbery sentence above comes from a collage-poem he built out of text in Roget's Thesaurus.
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Not all of the thesaurus words for "good" work quite so well in describing the May jobs numbers.
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"The irony is that the timelessness of the thesaurus," he said, lay "in its inability to finish itself."
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Besides its taking over 125 years to complete, how is the Thesaurus Linguae Latinae different from other dictionaries?
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So all those women who talk about begging for an epidural — they should have tried a thesaurus first?
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Having found little in his record to attack, they have consulted the thesaurus to turn up ugly sounding accusations.
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Hanneman detested clichéd metal lyrics, and took pride in tapping the thesaurus — which he sometimes used well, and sometimes awkwardly.
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It also lends you a hand in finding the right words through its built-in word explorer and contextual thesaurus.
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Look up independent in a thesaurus and you will see words like strong or liberated — traits that we all aspire to.
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He's not the sort of writer who, in a gun battle, would be saved by the bullet that strikes his thesaurus.
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"I like posting because it's essentially a massive exercise in improvisation," said one user, who posts as local librarian Colin Thesaurus.
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Every time I submitted a word for a definition—or for a synonym, in the thesaurus—the widget would freeze up.
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Look up in a thesaurus and find some other ways, but I don't know that there's a distinction there that's noteworthy.
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She used "A Florence Diary" to describe every inch of the Italian city as happily as a tween with a thesaurus.
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There are sage and agile talks delivered to writing students at N.Y.U., crisp essays for magazines and even a lovely thesaurus entry.
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But he is adored by the party members in the country who cherish his Bertie Wooster-with-a-thesaurus speeches and flamboyant style.
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Then he captured these tableaux in detailed illustrations, published from 1701 to 1716 as engravings by Cornelius Huyberts in the Thesaurus anatomicus primus.
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At the same time, the movie's presumably normally gifted men are as superfluous to the proceedings as a thesaurus in the writers' room.
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" Some assignments are more coveted than others: Josine Schrickx, an editor, said she would like to write the entry for the word "thesaurus.
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In the process, the episode delivers a portrait of Eugene that goes beyond the redneck, thesaurus-loving comic relief caricature he's been until now.
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Then there are other thesaurus synonyms for "good" that we don't normally use in reference to employment numbers, but which are apropos this month.
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"It used to be if you were making crosswords, you'd have a dictionary, a thesaurus, an almanac and maybe a word list," he said.
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If you're stumped for ideas, Mr. Shelley recommends grabbing a thesaurus and jotting down words that sound like either person's first or last names.
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In places, the list reads like a thesaurus for synonyms for the entire range of emotions a banker or client could experience in the workplace.
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Flip through a thesaurus or take online quizzes to test your vocabulary, and gradually intumesce your personal lexicon and chevvy your kin with your verbosity.
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"Lateral Cooking," like Segnit's first book (2012's "The Flavor Thesaurus"), is definitely more of a resource than a cookbook, but that's what I'm into.
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Such are the thesaurus-bursting permutations of "Minor Character," a play that puts six translations of "Uncle Vanya" in a blender to see what emerges.
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Here are the basic, thesaurus definitions of the term spy, for all of you people in Congress even those of you that claim to be lawyers.
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Soon I was piling all my books—my dictionary, my thesaurus, my Illustrated Birds of North America—and all my belongings into a cart outside my cell.
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" Fortunately, Samantha Bee has immortalized that epithet — alongside every other phrase she's used to describe Donald Trump — in a very thorough supercut called the "official Trump Thesaurus.
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They can make thesaurus recommendations more accessible, create to-do lists in new tabs, or change the color scheme of web pages to make them more readable.
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The real question in analyzing the May jobs numbers released Friday is whether there are enough synonyms for "good" in an online thesaurus to describe them adequately.
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They offer 5 junk sex novels, 14 bibles & religious books, 24 drawing/coloring books, 21 puzzle books, 11 guitar/chess/how-to books, 1 dictionary, 1 thesaurus.
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If you really believe that the most powerful companies in the world are destroying the human species, shouldn't you counterattack with more than a sharpie and a thesaurus?
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After I turned 54 last year, I woke up one morning with a now-or-never feeling that had me reaching for a dictionary and my old thesaurus.
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With "The Flavor Thesaurus," the British food writer Niki Segnit broke new ground, creating a bible for serious cooks who want to understand how and why flavors combine.
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She wanted to figure out how to program a computer to understand words that could have many meanings (for example "field") and set about programming a massive thesaurus.
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A continuación, un extracto del diccionario cuya producción lleva más de cien años: An excerpt from the Latin thesaurus that has been in the works for over 100 years.
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Rikers is so iconic and if you look up the phrase, "abandon all hope, ye who enter here" in a dictionary or Roget's Thesaurus, there'll be a picture of Rikers.
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Featured Article: "Latin Dictionary's Journey: A to Zythum in 125 Years (and Counting)" Researchers in Germany have been working on the Thesaurus Linguae Latinae — a Latin dictionary — since the 1890s.
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The result is a document that reads like a DEA agent got hopped up on booty juice (MDMA), brain ticklers (amphetamines), and krazy kandy (synthetic marijuana), then picked up a thesaurus.
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Once he got over his pedantry, Charlie just sprayed the grammar around like Jackson Pollock with a thesaurus and Yoda'd it up a bit to make it authentically inauthentic, beautifully unfinished.
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En los 125 años que han transcurrido desde entonces, el Thesaurus Linguae Latinae (TLL) ha atestiguado la caída de un imperio, dos guerras mundiales y la división y reunificación de Alemania.
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Amongst those currently writing, Simon Schama stands out as the Dickens of modern historiography: bewilderingly erudite and prolific, passionate in his enthusiasms and armed with the complete contents of the thesaurus.
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This is why the most useful document at the scheduled White House briefing on border security today between Trump and leaders of Congress would be an old hard copy of Roget's Thesaurus.
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Pull up "large" in your thesaurus and you can easily apply any synonym to the plant: great, huge, sizable, substantial, immense, enormous, colossal, massive, mammoth, vast, prodigious, tremendous, ginormous — all of them apply.
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Metropolitan Diary Dear Diary: She sits quietly at her desk —a sparrow wearing a gray skirt,how often do her eyes fly around,perch on a long limb with Webster's dictionaryand Roget's Thesaurus.
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Descriptions of Napoleon resemble a listless thesaurus recitation of the word remote, so I often resort to numbers to illustrate its lilliputian properties: zero stop lights, two bars, three gas stations, and four churches.
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If they write that they have a "passion for fashion" more than once in a cover letter, I'm going to assume they'll be heavy-handed with a thesaurus when presented with actual copy to produce.
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Our cultural thesaurus has reduced the word mutant to a term of derision, but if you think mutation is a dirty word, you should probably stop reading—and probably stop eating plant-based food too.
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Not derived from a dictionary or thesaurus, his use of language comes from his deep reading in divergent subjects, from the French Revolution to classical literature, and a punster's sensitivity to homophones and other links.
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Andrew M. Cuomo, NYC Books Through Bars said the vendors' online catalogs indicated that inmates would have access to only romance novels, religious texts, drawing or coloring books, instruction manuals, one dictionary and one thesaurus.
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Not derived from a dictionary or thesaurus, Finlay's use of language comes from his deep reading in divergent subjects, from the French Revolution to classical literature, and a punster's sensitivity to homophones and other links.
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Among their most famous pieces is a yellow canvas covered with a thesaurus of quaint (and not-so-quaint) epithets for gay men, decoratively arranged in varying old-timey typefaces like a jaunty printer's sample.
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They're up to the letter R. The Thesaurus Linguae Latinae aims to show every single way anyone ever used a word, from the earliest Latin inscriptions in the sixth century B.C. to around A.D. 600.
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Like Ms. Sagher, I hadn't met Mr. Dietz's play before, but when it premiered Ben Brantley called it " 'Melrose Place' with a thesaurus and a reflective streak of self-consciousness," frowning on the heavy-handed dialogue.
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" But in Roget's II: The New Thesaurus, Third Edition, we get a definition of "utterly reprehensible in nature or behavior" and a fearsome farrago of synonyms as adjectives: "corrupt, degenerate, depraved, flagitious, perverse, rotten, unhealthy, villainous.
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In those works and his more recent "Thesaurus" series — in which Bochner depicts exuberant collisions of formal, colloquial and vulgar synonyms — the artist examines words' ability to muddy meaning ("blah blah blah" is a recurring motif).
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Towles's previous book, Rules of Civility — a hit in 2011 — had a narrative voice as smooth and stylish as the martinis its characters sipped, but A Gentleman in Moscow demonstrates a disappointing fondness for the thesaurus.
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Almost all of Ruysch's specimens deteriorated and disappeared over time, so the Thesaurus anatomicus primus is the best portal we have to view the anatomical creations of one of the most unusual still life artists in history.
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World leaders pulled out the stops, and perhaps a thesaurus or two, to review President Donald Trump's first appearance at the UN General Assembly, the multi-day pageant of meetings known as the Super Bowl of Diplomacy.
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There's Bing integration too, which means you get all of Bing's services right inside the keyboard—web search, news headlines, word translations, and a thesaurus feature to fall back on when you just can't find the right word.
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I might reverse-engineer a word by typing an easy synonym into the thesaurus, or I might paste my best attempt into my browser bar and let the search engine offer the correct spelling as a suggested query.
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These are just a few of the words that we've heard used to describe the 2016 election, plus several synonyms that we just looked up in a thesaurus to make the list look even longer and more weighty.
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Now you burn some additional calories by getting out your thesaurus and solving the other three theme clues, making sure to note that, in the south, the entries MENU and EATERY cross each other in the cruelest way.
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So, instead of going out to buy a whole new wardrobe in an effort to keep up with the trends, allow the looks ahead to serve as your styling thesaurus, full of new ways to wear those same old items.
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So far, six companies have been approved by the state to sell books, and the first five announced offer one dictionary, one thesaurus, 21 puzzle books, 11 how-to books, 14 religious books, 24 coloring books and five romance novels.
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LONDON, July 19 (Reuters) - British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson said on Tuesday it would take far too long for him to apologise for the "rich thesaurus" of rude comments and insults he has directed at world leaders and others over the years.
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After I analyzed the May employment data by consulting a thesaurus and writing a cheeky article using a lot of near-synonyms for "good," the Trump administration blasted it out approvingly to the White House press list and through a presidential tweet.
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New York state's prison system restricted the types of books people can send to inmates at three prisons to a handful of romance novels, the Bible and other religious texts, drawing or coloring books, puzzle books, how-to books, a dictionary, and a thesaurus.
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We might also call it needlessly cynical to promote such a garbage novel as the second coming of The Crying of Lot 49 just because it was written by a craggy white man with an unearned sense of intellectual superiority and a well-thumbed thesaurus.
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On Tuesday, at a joint news conference with Secretary of State John Kerry, Mr. Johnson noted that he had issued a "rich thesaurus" of insults over the years, and added, "It would really take me too long to engage in a fully global itinerary of apology to all concerned."
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Books Through Bars, a nonprofit, said that would have limited the books available to "five romance novels, 14 bibles and other religious texts, 24 drawing or coloring books, 21 puzzle books, 11 guitar, chess, and how-to books, one dictionary, and one thesaurus," according to the PEN report. Gov.
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Even though Betsy is riffing on the shingle style, there is a difference between architectural complexity and a mess, just as there is a difference between a masterful use of vocabulary and replacing every word in a sentence with the longest synonym you can find in the thesaurus.
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Gregg Doyel used the news to excrete a column about the Indiana Pacers (Gregg, maybe if the team wasn't in fucking Indiana people would want to play there) and wore out the pages of his thesaurus to call Durant "spineless" a whopping five times for choosing to play in Oakland.
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"I'm afraid that there is such a rich thesaurus now of things that I have said that are being one way or another, through what alchemy I do not know, somehow misconstrued that it would really take me too long to engage in a full, global itinerary of apology to all concerned," Mr. Johnson said.
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"I'm afraid that there is such a rich thesaurus now of things that I have said that have been one way or another, through what alchemy I do not know, somehow misconstrued that it would really take me too long to engage in a fully global itinerary of apology to all concerned," Johnson responded.
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The spirit seemed intent on dispensing cooking tips (encouraging one woman to bake with honey, and another to use more salt) and career advice (consider public speaking or writing, Ms. Calkins said to a third woman in a mauve head scarf, adding that the spirit was offering adjectives from the other side to help her do so, like a spectral thesaurus).
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As he becomes more personal and freer with his stories, McPhee also becomes freer with advice: For a far richer and more specific list of alternative words, use a dictionary, not the "scattershot wad" in a thesaurus; every piece of writing can be improved by cutting, or "greening" as it is known at Time, for which McPhee produced many kinds of articles including marvelous show-biz profiles likely to be unfamiliar to even his most ardent fans (a passage on trying to interview Jackie Gleason is particularly wonderful).
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