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The definitions are sourced from the famous and open-source WordNet database, so a huge thanks to the many contributors for creating such an awesome free resource. In case you didn't notice, you can click on words in the search results and you'll be presented with the definition of that word (if available). Examining a different speech, address, or public letter in each chapter, White tracks the evolution of Lincoln’s rhetoric from the measured, lawyerly tones. For those interested, I also developed Describing Words which helps you find adjectives and interesting descriptors for things (e.g. In The Eloquent President, historian Ronald White examines Lincoln’s astonishing oratory and explores his growth as a leader, a communicator, and a man of deepening spiritual conviction. So this project, Reverse Dictionary, is meant to go hand-in-hand with Related Words to act as a word-finding and brainstorming toolset. That project is closer to a thesaurus in the sense that it returns synonyms for a word (or short phrase) query, but it also returns many broadly related words that aren't included in thesauri. I made this tool after working on Related Words which is a very similar tool, except it uses a bunch of algorithms and multiple databases to find similar words to a search query. So in a sense, this tool is a "search engine for words", or a sentence to word converter. It acts a lot like a thesaurus except that it allows you to search with a definition, rather than a single word. The engine has indexed several million definitions so far, and at this stage it's starting to give consistently good results (though it may return weird results sometimes). adjective eloquent (of speech, writing, etc. The Eloquent Leader: 10 Steps to Communication That Propels You Forward (Speak for Success) Andrei, Peter Daniel on.
adjective eloquent A person who is eloquent is good at speaking and able to persuade people. adjective eloquent Speech or writing that is eloquent is well expressed and effective in persuading people. For example, if you type something like "longing for a time in the past", then the engine will return "nostalgia". Having the power of expressing strong emotions in vivid and appropriate speech able to utter moving thoughts or words: as, an eloquent orator or preacher. noun eloquent Fluent or persuasive in speaking or writing. It simply looks through tonnes of dictionary definitions and grabs the ones that most closely match your search query.
The way Reverse Dictionary works is pretty simple.