Being a word-freak from way back I used to scorn those who actually "used" a thesaurus, or a similar book of synonyms to enhance web-searching.

How the prideful hath fallen. The inside of my skull still resembles the night-sky over the desert, but to my horror, black holes are popping up all over it, each one being where a cluster of word-galaxies has blinked out forever.

So does any 'baker know of a browser, good bad or indifferent that has a thesaurus on tap to save me from fumbling with a book? Now if Google had one ...
-- rayfo, Nov 23 2000

Cool Thesaurus http://www.plumbdesign.com/thesaurus/
For Java fans [hippo, Nov 23 2000, last modified Oct 04 2004]

Moby Thesaurus http://elza.lpi.ac.ru/cgi-bin/mth
My favorite thesaurus of all time. Alas, this link is shaky at best. It used to be reliable. [bristolz, Dec 15 2001, last modified Oct 04 2004]

AikSauris, based on Moby Thesaurus http://aiken.clan11.../aiksaurus/012demo/
There is no peer for this thesaurus, imho (other than Moby Thesaurus). Frankly, I'm surprised that this was not already linked to by one of the demi-weazened [bristolz, Dec 15 2001, last modified Oct 04 2004]

Moby Thesaurus Resources http://www.dcs.shef...esearch/ilash/Moby/
Grady Ward's spectacular thesaurus. [bristolz, Dec 15 2001, last modified Oct 04 2004]

Javascript Roget's search javascript:Qr=docum...&words='+escape(Qr)
You can place this as a bookmark in most browsers. [bookworm, Dec 15 2001, last modified Oct 04 2004]

hippo linked to my favorite thesaurus of all thesaureds. I hoped that the principle behind this item would be someday applied to an Othello application.
-- reensure, Nov 24 2000


The Cool Thesaurus is fascinating and a masterpiece of design , but there's a flaw.

The shimmering effect is elegant but baffling to those with certain eye defecrs.
-- rayfo, Nov 24 2000


How would the principle be applied to an Othello application?
-- egnor, Nov 24 2000


egnor: as a way to play ahead. Hover the cursor at a point and watch the game play. Move the cursor to hover at another node, and the game play follows suit.

Why not just play the game? Well, I do, but I just feel that the visual display would be KEWL!
-- reensure, Nov 27 2000


FWIW, I open Word and use its Thesaurus and spell checker. It'd be nice to have these built into a browser, but building them into the OS would be better.
-- phoenix, Dec 15 2001


Building it into the OS would *not* be better. I don't want to sacrifice storage space or performance just because other people have vocabulary deficits.

I believe what phoenix is searching for would better be implemented as a separate thesaurus program that could be called by the user or by other applications--the equivalent of ispell.
-- bookworm, Dec 17 2001



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