News - Powered by Yahoo NewsDictionary! iPhone app a no-frills reference library on your iPhone
TASTY: It won?t take you long to find a word, presuming you know how to spell it at all. The dictionary is this iPhone app?s only feature. BUMMER: Not much to see here outside of the spoken word feature and the dictionary itself.
Tue, 09 Mar 2010 17:08:18 GMT - (appolicious)
A Fast Foreign Language Dictionary That Searches Five Languages at Once
Instantly search German, French, Spanish, Italian, and English dictionaries simultaneously.
Tue, 09 Mar 2010 18:00:00 GMT - (PRWeb via Yahoo! News)
Grab a dictionary, because spelling is no joak | LEN WELLS COLUMN
SOUTHERN ILLINOIS ?There's a reason why I have a copy of the Merriam-Webster Dictionary on my desk. Despite many years in the writing business, I still have a lot of trouble spelling. About half the time, I stare at a word for several minutes because it simply doesn't look right, then drag out the dictionary. Furthermore, I never have trusted the spell check feature on my computer. There's just ...
Sun, 07 Mar 2010 05:30:00 GMT - (Evansville Courier & Press)
Sharmine Narwani: Mideast "Proximity Talks" -- The Theater of the Absurd
"Proximity Talks." Look it up in the Dictionary of Realpolitik and you will find the following: "Negotiations going nowhere fast."
Tue, 09 Mar 2010 19:42:10 GMT - (The Huffington Post)
Getting filthy rich and other such optical illusions
others also read... The word of the day is ?optics?. My dictionary defines it as the branch of physics that studies the properties of light, but there?s a trippier definition currently in circulation.
Tue, 09 Mar 2010 15:10:49 GMT - (Kelowna Capital News)
Sony Pocket Edition Reader Review
Sony Pocket Edition reader in optional premium cover In September, 2009, I posted a review of the new Sony Touch Edition reader (PRS-600). That reader has a touch screen, dictionary, note-taking abilities, and it retails for $299.99. It?s a fabulous reader, but it does have a problem with screen glare. It?s also expensive and has some [...] Filed in categories: Reviews , eBook Readers and Gear ...
Tue, 09 Mar 2010 13:19:57 GMT - (The Gadgeteer)
Wrestling Sweeps EIWA Regionals Championship Meet
The verb ?to sweep,? coming from the Middle English root swepen, has a long list of definitions according to Merriam-Webster?s online dictionary edition.
Tue, 09 Mar 2010 07:30:33 GMT - (The Cornell Daily Sun)
Helping students open the door to knowledge
Journalists love words. It follows then, that we adore our dictionaries. A dictionary is a powerful book. It opens the door to the world of words and contains the seeds for a harvest of vast knowledge.
Tue, 09 Mar 2010 06:31:36 GMT - (Arkansas News Bureau)
Navy submarines: What?s really in the way of women serving?
Defense Secretary Robert Gates notified Congress in a letter Feb. 19 that the Navy intends to repeal the Congressional ban on female personnel on submarines. It?s about time.
Tue, 09 Mar 2010 16:01:22 GMT - (The Christian Science Monitor via Yahoo! News)
Scribblenauts 2 Coming
Scribblenauts was a hit when it came out for the DS late last year, and now developer 5th Cell has announced that a sequel to the puzzler is coming this fall. The first Scribblenauts let you conjure objects out of thin air by using the game's dictionary of nouns to create objects Maxwell could then use onscreen to solve puzzles. Scribblenauts 2 takes things a step beyond by now letting you use ...
Mon, 08 Mar 2010 16:34:49 GMT - (Game Informer)