http://ask.metafilter.com/tags/crosslinking Questions tagged with 'crosslinking' at Ask MetaFilter. Tue, 29 Apr 2008 00:03:53 -0800 Tue, 29 Apr 2008 00:03:53 -0800 en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 http://ask.metafilter.com/90057/Replacing%2Dmy%2Dfavorite%2Dthesaurus%2Dnow%2Dthat%2Dits%2Dmore%2Defficient Recommendations for a good, verbose online thesaurus for wandering through words? thesaurus.com seems to have changed how they serve search results and my working style is screwed. I use thesaurus.com for hours a day. Their overly detailed results, as well as weird and obscure words that aren't even defined on dictionary.com, were perfect for the way I work (in naming).<br> <br> I take a few days off, however, and "smart" has 8 results? I used to get pages of entries that were even vaguely related to smart, allowing me to travel interesting pathways and ideas.<br> <br> I've tried Merriam-Webster's thesaurus and it works the limited and terrible way thesaurus.com does - great for the practical writer, not so great for a word wanderer. onelook.com is great for some applications, but their "limit to a specific concept" is wonky at best. Paper thesauri(?) are fairly useless for this purpose. Word Menu is a little more useful, but limited and slow, as I'm quicker with a mouse than paper.<br> <br> Are there any tools that work in that wander and get lost way, particularly with a lot of words? Is there some way to get the way-too-prolific results from thesaurus.com again? tag:ask.metafilter.com,2008:site.90057 Tue, 29 Apr 2008 00:03:53 -0800 concepts connected crosslinking crossreference online resolved thesaurus words Gucky