Caution — you may not be able to stop playing with this one:
Visuwords™ online graphical dictionary — Look up words to find their meanings and associations with other words and concepts. Produce diagrams reminiscent of a neural net. Learn how words associate.
Enter words into the search box to look them up or double-click a node to expand the tree. Click and drag the background to pan around and use the mouse wheel to zoom. Hover over nodes to see the definition and click and drag individual nodes to move them around to help clarify connections.
Type a word into its search box (“rhinoceros,” for example). You get a circular node labeled “rhinoceros,” with several other nodes surrounding it attached by spokes.
Here’s a screenshot:
Sorry about the blur. Here’s one for “home”:
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This is an indexer’s dream!
Cool! I hadn’t thought of that. I like seeing the little circles explode and bounce around when you click on them.
It’s psychedelic!
Thanks for the great tool! I’ll try ro use it.
But as for languages, I prefer online tools, like thesaurus dictionary.