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Wordnik wants to be a place for all the words, and everything known about them. Traditional dictionaries make you wait until they've found what they consider to be "enough" information about a word before they will show it to you. Wordnik knows you don't want to wait-if you're interested in a word, we're interested too! Our goal is to show you as much information as possible, just as fast as we can find it, for every word in English, and to give you a place where you can make your own opinions about words known. By "information," we don't just mean traditional definitions (although we have plenty of those)! This information could be: * An example sentence-even if we've only found one sentence for a word, we'll show it to you. (And we'll show you where the sentence came from, too! * Related words: not just synonyms and antonyms, but words that are used in the same contexts. (For instance, cheeseburger, milkshake, and doughnut are not synonyms, but they show up in the same kinds of sentences.) * Images tagged by our friends at Flickr: want to know what a "pout" looks like? We'll show you. * Statistics: how rare is "tintinnabulation"? Well, we think you'll see it only about once a year. "Smile"? You might see that word many times, every day. * An audio pronunciation-and you can record your own!

"This lesson uses the four modalities of reading (reading, writing, listening, \nand speaking) on a math word problem to bridge the gap between reading and math. \nAfter a read-aloud from the book Math Curse by Jon Scieszka and Lane \nSmith, students create their own word problems with answers. Students solve each \nother's problems. As they reread the word problems, fluency and comprehension \nincrease. Finally, students use the skills they've learned creating word \nproblems to complete a crossword puzzle. As students read the math concept words \npresented in the\npuzzle and write the correct answers, their reading and \nwriting math vocabulary skills increase."

People have been using Poll Everywhere to make word clouds and tag clouds for years. Now, we've made it even easier with a simple two-step process for our favorite word cloud services: Wordle, Tagxedo, and Tagul. You'll find a new view called "Word cloud" on your Free Text Polls.

Now you can use Blogger right within Microsoft® Word. Just download and install the Blogger for Word add-in and a Blogger toolbar will be added to Word allowing you to: * Publish to your blog * Save drafts * Edit posts

Shakespeare searched was created by the Folger Shakespeare Library, in Washington, and allows students to search for specific words within the lines of Shakespeare's plays and sonnets. A keyword search can identify a specific passage in a specific poem or play or find larger meaning and themes within his many works. Search the word "love" for example, pulls hunderds of passages from plays like "Romeo and Juliet," " A Midsummer Night's Dream," and, of course, "Love's Labour's Lost." within each search, common results are grouped by topic. These grouplings or clusters break the search down further to show how many tiems a Shakespearean character used the word love, or find words that are most commonly associated with love.

Website - A look at the language of presidential inaugural addresses. The most-used words in each address appear in the interactive chart below, sized by number of uses. Words highlighted in yellow were used significantly more in this inaugural address than average.

This website was shared at the Discovery Day. Make sure you click on a word. Above it will show that word used in other Presidents' speeches. Interesting.

Word Games is a free online game website dedicated to showcasing the very best Word Games online!

Thinking Blocks is a suite of learning tools designed to help students solve math word problems accurately and efficiently. Using brightly colored blocks, students model mathematical relationships and identify known and unknown quantities. The model provides students with a powerful image that organizes information and simplifies the problem solving process. By modeling increasingly complex word problems, students develop strong reasoning skills which will facilitate the transition from arithmetic to algebra.

Search, Save and Master Words * Search from more than 300,000 words and phrases * Multiple usages to clarify the context * Audio, phonetics, meanings, synonyms and antonyms * Save the words to your personal deck and access from anywhere

"AbiWord is a free word processing program similar to Microsoft® Word. It is suitable for a wide variety of word processing tasks. AbiWord allows you to collaborate with multiple people on one document at the same time. It is tightly integrated with the AbiCollab.net web service, which lets you store documents online, allows easy document sharing with your friends, and performs format conversions on the fly."

Find synonyms, antonyms & definition for (almost) any word - To help you avoid using the same word too repetitively, redundantly, recurrently, incessantly, etc., etc.

"Simply enter some text and create your word cloud! * Customise many settings * Share your word cloud (or keep it secret!) * Embed it on your own website"

Wordcounter ranks the most frequently used words in any given body of text. Use this to see what words you overuse (is everything a "solution" for you?) or maybe just to find some keywords from a document.

turns words -- famous speeches, news articles, slogans and themes, even your love letters -- into a visually stunning tag cloud, words individually sized appropriately to highlight the frequencies of occurence within the body of text.

We're a team of language enthusiasts and general word nuts who have joined forces to create a new kind of dictionary - a democratic 'visual dictionary'. A place where anyone with a video, webcam or mobile phone can define the words that matter to them in their life.

Brings words to life through the use of video. FREE

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Create a self-portrait using your words. Link to places like Facebook or Twitter for words you've already written or write something new specifically for your portrait. Either way, you'll create a unique image that can be shared and saved and will remind everyone that You Are Your Words.

Finding rhymes for words can be quite tricky. If you are writing a poem or song and have already used up all the rhymes you could think of, it is best consult other rhyming sources for new ideas.

"VocabSushi provides thousands of sentences that demonstrate any vocab word's contemporary usage in news articles. Compared to the brute force method of flashcard definitions, a deeper understanding of the word can be attained simply by reading several interesting sentences that contain that word."

The Chicktionary Lite: The chicken bobs its head and clucks when kids use one of their letters to make a word. The "beak sneak" option fills in one letter of each of the words not yet found.

We are an online spelling program that makes practicing for spelling tests fun. SpellingCity.com has: - Over 35,000 spelling words and eight spelling games! - A REAL person who says each word and sentence - Thousands of free spelling lists. Or save your own!