thesauri

The article specifically talks about why Webster's unabridged dicts are different from thesauri...

The whole talk's been stretched out, muddied, and fed through several thesauri.

Fair enough, I've personally looked at dictionaries along with thesauri as a spec rather than a wiki; but your anecdote makes sense.

There is a reason why all museums and other heritage institutions use their own databases and thesauri instead of putting it all in the same database.

Everybody uses spell checkers and thesauri already (some also use grammar checkers like Grammarly), also google things up - this will be increasingly extended/replaced with advanced AIs usage.

It's all about you and your words, and they have to be your words - rhyming dictionaries and thesauri more often than not will make your words seem fake.

In this day and age when we have access to multilingual online dictionaries, thesauri and even translators like Google Translate, discouraging unfamiliar words sounds extreme.

I have syntax and spell checkers, integration with Grammarly (I know VS Code can do that one); I have Google translate integration, have dictionaries and thesauri.

Prioritizing There's also online thesauri.

But that talked about a UI that let people send commands in natural language then the computer would use completion and Thesauri to make suggestions as to what precise commands the user might have meant.

I used to work for a company that produces a well known encyclopedia as well dictionaries and thesauri and other reference works and I can tell you this practice makes for a lot of fun.

I pulled my Liddel and Scott off the bookshelf to see the word in print (I have dictionaries and thesauri on shelves over my desk for easy reference) and discovered that I have the abridged edition.

Classic scholars would often have a "reference shelf" with multiple dictionaries, books of idioms, thesauri, and more.

They appear as synonyms for each other in thesauri; "riddle" is given as one of multiple definitions for "puzzle" in wiktionary.

For example, in the case of "nothing" I would propose that it has a meaning in everyday language that doesn't make it into the dictionaries or thesauri: that it partly means (or can mean) that which has not been discovered yet.

(Ideally, it would have been <input type="quantity"> from the start, so that nobody would even think of using it for digit-based identifiers.) Seriously, thesauri can be occasionally useful for something beyond sounding smug.