cheetah

Looks good, John! But on multi-word phrases it only defines the first word (see hilarious misunderstanding for an example. Would be nice if it could either define every word in the phrase, or define the whole phrase (if it knows it), or not define anything at all.

Thanks, John! Pretty snazzy. C_b, I called myself a punctuationista, but you joined in readily. :-)

As for the WordNet stuff, I doubt we can do anything about the punctuation at our end, so we'll have to learn to live with it. But it seems okay here--semicolons are standard "dictionary-ish" for separating distinct definitions. Or were you not referring to this page?

I noticed those definitions, John. Slick! They're nice and faint and unobtrusive. Some of them have slight errors in punctuation though (didn't someone call me a punctuationista once?), and I'd love if this page reflected that cheetahs, in short sprints, are the fastest land mammal.

Or did someone debunk that?

Ba dump bump!

p.s. headcheese.

Whew! We thought you had forgotten about us, c_b. ;)

Yeah, sorry about that. The company that hosts Wordie, slicehost, tanked this morning. Traffic couldn't get through to any sites they host.

After which I took it down for a few minutes to add definitions to words. They come from WordNet, an open-source lexicographic database from Princeton. I'll polish this over time (WordNet supports more than just definitions, it's pretty cool), but figured I'd throw what I have out there, see how folks feel about it.

Ba dump bump!

Sorry, wordie was down all morning for me. This is the first time I could get the page to load at all.

This is a lot gazzle (sic gazelle) dazzle

Where's chained_bear? We need drum rolls on this page. ;-)

Or she's just looking for lynx to her ancestors.

He must be lion. Cheetahs will all the time. (Look at the New England Patriots, for example..)

My cats race each other a lot. One claims to be a natural cheetah. Then the other says cheetahs never win.