|
|
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:
| ampoule |
a small, sealable glass or plastic bulb used for sterile storage of material, esp. for subsequent analysis or hypodermic injection. |
| barren |
incapable of conceiving and bearing young; sterile. [1/5 definitions] |
| impotent |
of a male, sterile. [1/3 definitions] |
| mule1 |
the sterile, hybrid offspring of a male donkey and a female horse. [1/3 definitions] |
| neuter |
an animal that has been made sterile, esp. a male that has been castrated. [2/9 definitions] |
| pad1 |
a thick piece of gauze or other soft, sterile material used as a protective and absorbent covering, barrier, or sponge. [1/12 definitions] |
| sanitary |
free from contaminants or sources of infection; clean; sterile. [1/2 definitions] |
| tuberculin |
a sterile liquid containing a substance derived from a culture of the bacterium that causes tuberculosis, used to diagnose and treat that disease. |
| unsterile |
combined form of sterile. |
|
|