|
|
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:
| aboard |
on or into a ship, plane, bus, or plane; on board. [1/2 definitions] |
| airplane |
a machine that can fly because of the force of air upon its wings; plane. An airplane is driven by propellers or a jet engine. |
| angle1 |
the degree to which a line or plane slants with respect to a horizontal or vertical plane. [1/10 definitions] |
| B- |
in the U.S. military, a plane used to transport and drop bombs, such as a B-17 or B-52. |
| barnstorm |
to perform acts of stunt flying with a small plane, usu. at rural carnivals or fairs. [1/3 definitions] |
| bomber |
a plane used in war to carry and drop bombs. [1/2 definitions] |
| booking |
a reservation for space, as at a hotel or restaurant or on a plane or ship. [1/2 definitions] |
| Cartesian coordinates |
a pair of coordinates for locating a point on a plane by its distances from two intersecting, usu. perpendicular lines. [1/2 definitions] |
| concave |
a concave line, plane, or structure. [1/3 definitions] |
| conic section |
in geometry, a curve, such as an ellipse, hyperbola, or parabola, created by the intersection of a plane and a right circular cone. |
| contrail |
a visible trail of moisture condensed into water drops or ice crystals, formed in the wake of a high-flying plane or rocket; vapor trail. |
| crash-land |
to land (an airplane) in an emergency, usu. causing damage to the plane. [1/2 definitions] |
| decagon |
in geometry, a ten-sided plane figure. |
| dextrorotation |
rotation or turning of the plane of polarized light to the right. |
| dextrorotatory |
of or designating a crystal or compound that turns the plane of polarized light to the right. (Cf. levorotatory.) [1/2 definitions] |
| diagonal |
in mathematics, joining two nonadjacent corners of a polygon or two corners of a polyhedron that are not in the same plane. [2/5 definitions] |
| dodecahedron |
a three-dimensional geometric figure with twelve plane faces. |
| eject |
to throw or propel oneself out of a plane in an emergency. [1/2 definitions] |
| ellipse |
a closed geometric plane curve formed by the intersection of a plane at an oblique angle to the axis and opposite sides of a right circular cone; an oval conic section. [1/2 definitions] |
| ellipsoid |
a solid geometric figure whose plane sections are all ellipses or circles. [1/2 definitions] |
| even |
in the same line or plane; parallel. [1/17 definitions] |
|
|