{"id":393,"date":"2005-09-28T19:06:02","date_gmt":"2005-09-28T19:06:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/2005\/09\/28\/MSNSearchAsADictionary.aspx"},"modified":"2005-09-28T19:06:02","modified_gmt":"2005-09-28T19:06:02","slug":"msn-search-as-a-dictionary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/2005\/09\/28\/msn-search-as-a-dictionary\/","title":{"rendered":"MSN Search as a dictionary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><P>While at <A href=\"http:\/\/spaces.msn.com\/members\/mailcall\/Blog\/cns!1pFgRKa8Lr6GIMM5UtTma4pQ!628.entry\">the 2nd annual MSN Butterfly Tour<\/A> the topic came up of using&nbsp;search to look up the definition of words.&nbsp; I mentioned to the testers that it can be done by using the &#8220;define&#8221; keyword.&nbsp; <\/P><br \/>\n<P>For example, say I want to look up the definition of the word &#8220;sibilance&#8221; to make sure I&#8217;m using it correctly.&nbsp; Typing &#8220;<A href=\"http:\/\/search.msn.com\/results.aspx?q=define%3Asibilance\">define sibilance<\/A>&#8221; into the MSN tool bar or the MSN search page will return&nbsp;your typical search results, but at the top of the page you&#8217;ll find <a href=\"http:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20100410233613\/http:\/\/encarta.msn.com:80\/dictionary_1861735215\/sibilant.html\">a definition of the word from Encarta<\/a>.<\/P><br \/>\n<P>MSN search supports a variety of phrases to tell it you want specific information.&nbsp; You can get the same results as &#8220;define&#8221; by using the phrases &#8220;what is [word]&#8221; or &#8220;what is the definition of [word]?&#8221; (but typing &#8220;define&#8221; is, of course, fastest).<\/P><br \/>\n<P>Here are some other cool searches:<\/P><br \/>\n<UL><br \/>\n<LI>Health: &#8220;<A href=\"http:\/\/search.msn.com\/results.aspx?FORM=TOOLBR&amp;q=calories+in+spinach\">calories in spinach<\/A>&#8221; or &#8220;<A href=\"http:\/\/search.msn.com\/results.aspx?q=protein+in+chicken&amp;FORM=QBRE\">protein in chicken<\/A>&#8220;<\/LI><br \/>\n<LI>Math: &#8220;<A href=\"http:\/\/search.msn.com\/results.aspx?FORM=TOOLBR&amp;q=5%2B1%2Fsqrt+4\">5+1\/sqrt 4<\/A>&#8220;<\/LI><br \/>\n<LI>Conversions: &#8220;<A href=\"http:\/\/search.msn.com\/results.aspx?q=80+m+in+ft&amp;FORM=QBRE\">80 meters in&nbsp;feet<\/A>&#8220;<\/LI><br \/>\n<LI>Algebra: &#8220;<A href=\"http:\/\/search.msn.com\/results.aspx?q=4x%3D19&amp;FORM=QBRE\">4x=19<\/A>&#8220;<\/LI><\/UL><br \/>\n<P>Why waste time going to the bookshelf for a dictionary or encyclopedia?<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While at the 2nd annual MSN Butterfly Tour the topic came up of using&nbsp;search to look up the definition of words.&nbsp; I mentioned to the testers that it can be done by using the &#8220;define&#8221; keyword.&nbsp; For example, say I want to look up the definition of the word &#8220;sibilance&#8221; to make sure I&#8217;m using [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[38,41,21,23],"tags":[131],"class_list":["post-393","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-webreference","category-usefulsites","category-useful","category-web","tag-useful-site"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=393"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}