|
|
Reverse Search
Reverse Search allows you to search within the full text of dictionary entries for words, word parts, and phrases.
Search for entries that contain:
Exact matches of any of the individual words entered in the search box.
Example: Searching for "apple orange" identifies all entries that contain the word "apple" or the word "orange."
Any form of any of the individual words entered in the search box.
Example: Searching for "apple orange" identifies all entries that contain the word "apple" or "apples" or "orange" or "oranges."
Exact matches of all of the individual words entered in the search box.
Example: Searching for "apple orange" identifies all entries that contain the word "apple" and the word "orange."
The exact sequence of words and/or characters entered in the search box (for example, a fragment of a word, a single word, multiple words, or even a phrase containing punctuation)
Example: Searching for "a variety of apple" identifies all entries that contain that phrase. Searching for "app" identifies all entries that contain the letters "app," such as occurrences of "apple," "application," and "apply."
Search within these fields:
Optional:
Limit by part of speech:
| apices |
a plural form of apex. |
| Broadway |
this street as representing the theater district of New York City, or considered as a symbol of the center or apex of the U.S. theater industry. [1/2 definitions] |
| dextral |
rising to an apex in a counterclockwise spiral, said esp. of the shells of most gastropods. [1/3 definitions] |
| high-water mark |
the highest point; culmination; apex. [1/2 definitions] |
| king post |
in carpentry, a supporting vertical post between the apex of a triangular truss and the horizontal tie beam. (Cf. queen post.) |
| median |
a straight line from the apex of a triangle to the midpoint of the opposite side, or from the middle of one nonparallel side of a trapezoid to the other. [1/6 definitions] |
| pinnacle |
the highest point or part of anything; apex; summit. [1/5 definitions] |
| truncate |
square or lacking an apex at the end, as if cut off transversely. [1/4 definitions] |
| vertex |
the highest point of anything; apex. [1/2 definitions] |
| vertical |
of, relating to, or situated at the apex or highest point; overhead. [1/4 definitions] |
|
|