|
|
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:
| background |
the sum of a person's experience, education, and origins, esp. as they relate to his present character or situation. [1/5 definitions] |
| concern |
to relate to or be about; pertain to. [1/7 definitions] |
| connect |
to relate or place in contact or association with. [1/4 definitions] |
| fraternize |
to relate or associate in a friendly or brotherly way (often fol. by "with"). [1/2 definitions] |
| impart |
to make known; relate or disclose. [1/2 definitions] |
| legend |
a story that cannot be verified but has importance among the people of a culture and has been handed down from earlier generations, or a collection of such stories, esp. as they relate to a specific event or persons of the past. [1/4 definitions] |
| mirabile dictu |
(Latin) wonderful to say or relate. |
| mythologize |
to relate or create a myth or myths. [1/3 definitions] |
| narrate |
to give an account or tell the tale of; relate. [1/4 definitions] |
| pertain |
to relate or refer to something; have to do with. [1/3 definitions] |
| psychopathic personality |
a personality showing symptoms of or tending toward psychopathic behavior, such as amoral, antisocial, or aggressive behavior, inability to relate to other people, and the like. |
| recite |
to describe or relate information concerning, usu. from memory; recount. [1/5 definitions] |
| recount |
to tell a history of events; relate; narrate. [1/2 definitions] |
| refer |
to relate or pertain. [1/5 definitions] |
| report |
to tell; relate. [1/12 definitions] |
| tell |
to express verbally; relate in spoken or written words. [1/9 definitions] |
|
|