|
|
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:
| attend |
to listen to or pay attention to. [1/8 definitions] |
| CD1 |
abbreviation of "compact disk," a round, flat disk that sound can be recorded on and that people can listen to. Other information can also be recorded on a compact disk. |
| coffeehouse |
a small, informal restaurant that specializes in coffee and light meals, and to which its patrons often come to socialize, listen to music, read, or the like; café. |
| confess |
of a priest, to listen to (a penitent's confession). [1/6 definitions] |
| deaf |
not willing to listen to the ideas or advice of others. [1/2 definitions] |
| eavesdrop |
to listen to other people talk without letting them know. |
| hang on |
to listen very attentively to. [1/6 definitions] |
| hark |
to listen or give heed; pay attention, esp. to sounds, words of advice, or the like. |
| hear |
to listen to carefully. [1/5 definitions] |
| hearken |
to listen carefully; pay attention. |
| hear of |
to listen with agreement or consent (used only in the negative). [1/2 definitions] |
| heed |
to give one's attention to; listen to; take notice of. [1/2 definitions] |
| jury |
a group of people called to a court of law who listen to the facts of a case and decide its outcome. [1/2 definitions] |
| listenable |
combined form of listen. |
| listening post |
in the military, an advanced, concealed position established near enemy lines in order to listen to and detect the movements of the enemy. [1/2 definitions] |
| rock2 |
to play, listen to, or dance to rock music. [1/9 definitions] |
| rock-'n'-roll |
to listen to, dance to, or play rock-'n'-roll. [1/2 definitions] |
| stethoscope |
an instrument that makes the sounds inside a body louder. Doctors and nurses listen to the heart with a stethoscope. |
| voice mail |
a telephone system that records spoken messages electronically and stores them on a central computer. You listen to the messages by telephoning the main computer. |
|
|