Tuesday, May 28, 2013

Visual Thesaurus


Visual Thesaurus (VisualThesaurus.com) is an interactive dictionary and thesaurus which creates word maps that blossom with meanings and branch to related words. Its innovative display encourages exploration and learning. As an example when you try to find word “happy”, the VT will helps you find related word, from “cheerful” to “euphoric”. The type of VT will be looked like we do a brainstorming. Visual Thesaurus has over 145.000 English words and 115.000 meanings. We also can differentiate the use of words based on the part of speech.

Visual Thesaurus


To find the meaning of words from Visual Thesaurus, we need to write down the word on the look it up place. 


When the word that we would like to find, will be showed like this. The word will have branch with the related words.



In Visual Thesaurus, we also can find the meaning of the words from some popular books, such as: Alice in Wonderland, or the book from Shakespeare, even from Obama’s speech.

For English students, The Visual Thesaurus will be more helpful to develop their vocabularies. It also can be useful in writing, because they can find many words, so they will have good word diction in their writing.

 

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