Anyone interested in building english vocabulary?

by **satishgoda** » Mon Dec 13, 2004 4:19 pm

Hi Folks.

During the weekend I developed a Vocabulary Browsing Center to browse word-lists available in the public domain and for non commercial use. I thought some of you might find it useful, especially those preparing for GRE and related exams.

Here is the link. Vocab Center

Enjoy. Comments and suggestions are very welcome.

by **Der Schakal** » Mon Dec 13, 2004 4:57 pm

Hey nice website.Really good.Probably start using it when I start preparing for GRE(In like 5 months).

by **satishgoda** » Mon Dec 13, 2004 5:09 pm

Thank you Der Schakal. If there are any features that you'd like to see on the website, please suggest. i want to gather requirements from the user and accordingly steer my project. Time permitting, I might even develop a cross-platform desktop application. So once again I urge you to share ideas.

My list of features:

1. User sessions to store browse history [kinda like playlists].

2. Addition of new definitions to the database. [ Right now everything is text files, but I'm going to change that.]

3. Search feature.

etc.,

have fun using it for your preparation.

by **Sharjeel** » Mon Dec 13, 2004 9:16 pm

Brilliant idea!

But please get the meanings right. Some of the words have wrong meanings.

by **satishgoda** » Mon Dec 13, 2004 9:39 pm

Sharjeel wrote:Brilliant idea!

But please get the meanings right. Some of the words have wrong meanings.

Thanks Sharjeel.

Regarding the wrong meanings, I downloaded the wordlists from various sources and I haven't had time to proof read all of them. I will keep the wordlists upgraded as and when possible.

by **san** » Mon Dec 13, 2004 9:40 pm

http://www.wordsmith.org/ I like the word-a-day idea.

by **Sharjeel** » Mon Dec 13, 2004 9:46 pm

satishgoda wrote:Thanks Sharjeel.

Regarding the wrong meanings, I downloaded the wordlists from various sources and I haven't had time to proof read all of them. I will keep the wordlists upgraded as and when possible.

You are welcome. It is a very good idea. Hope you can fix the meanings.

by **ycr007** » Mon Dec 13, 2004 9:54 pm

Thanx Satish,Altough haven't gone thru the site,Am sure will be quite useful.Am gonna see it fully once I get bak 2 Hyd.Keep up the Good Work

by **satishgoda** » Mon Dec 13, 2004 10:42 pm

Hi Folks.

I have added another mirror site.

. <--- Mirror

I changed the name from "Vocabulary Center" to "Word List Browser", to avoid conflict with an existing webpage with a similar name.

by **satishgoda** » Tue Dec 14, 2004 11:47 pm

I was browsing through the OneLook site and came across their reverse dictionary. Check it out.

<--- Link

Coming to my Word List Browser, Today I downloaded the WordNet dictionary database. I will be adding their word lists soon.

by **akhilis2cool** » Wed Dec 15, 2004 10:01 am

good work satish. why dont u also put up the link for slashdot

by **satishgoda** » Wed Dec 15, 2004 11:07 am

akhilis2cool wrote:good work satish. why dont u also put up the link for slashdot

thanks akhil.

ok i will include slashdot link.

by **satishgoda** » Mon Dec 20, 2004 9:15 am

Hi Folks.

Over the weekend, I worked on improving the interface of the word list browser. Here is the current status.

have fun.

by **akhilis2cool** » Mon Dec 20, 2004 9:27 am

Good comprehensive list of words yar.

u think it cld have been arranged in a different way instead of one loooooong line top to bottom?

by **satishgoda** » Mon Dec 20, 2004 9:37 am

Sure. I am testing different interfaces. This is my first test.

You have any ideas?

by **akhilis2cool** » Mon Dec 20, 2004 9:47 am

Welllllllll how abt...Arranging them according to the no. of alphabets in the word? that wld reduce the length of the page drastically.

Or else if ^ seems time consuming (for the person browsing) then the letters cld be arranged from left to right also...

Anyone interested in building english vocabulary?

Anyone interested in building english vocabulary?

added another mirror

reverse dictionary

Word List Browser Tabbed Interface Prototype

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