|
|
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:
| ad-lib |
to make up or do without preparation; improvise (something spoken, sung, or played). [1/3 definitions] |
| ad libitum |
at one's pleasure (used as a musical direction to indicate that a section so marked may be varied, improvised upon, or omitted, as the performer wishes, or as a stage direction to indicate that the performer may improvise). |
| extemporize |
in music, to compose as one performs; improvise. [2/5 definitions] |
| play by ear |
to go forward with (some activity) without any previous planning or instructions, dealing with any problems just at the time they arise; improvise. [1/2 definitions] |
| play it by ear |
to act without planning in advance; improvise. |
| vamp1 |
in music, to invent or improvise. [2/7 definitions] |
| wing it |
(informal) to proceed without advance preparation or a plan; improvise. |
|
|