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Visuwords™ uses Princeton University’s WordNet, an opensource database built by University students and language researchers. Combined with a visualization tool and user interface built from a combination of modern web technologies, Visuwords™ is available as a free resource to all patrons of the web.

• It’s a dictionary! It’s a thesaurus!

• Great for writers, journalists, students, teachers, and artists.

• The online dictionary is available wherever there’s an internet connection.

• No membership required.

Visuwords™ is an 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.

• Adobe Flash Player required — download from here
  

• Use Visuwords™ at this link.

The source code is now available for Visuwords™ under a public license agreement. -> Read more and download

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