In the middle of writing a report and forgotten how to spell a particular word? Or reading a paper containing unfamiliar words? In the past, we would have reached for the trusty dictionary and simply looked the word up. But, these days when even the LGAQ Library doesn’t have a dictionary on its shelves, what to do?
There are, of course, many online dictionaries – Dictionary.com, Your Dictionary and AskOxford to name but a few. However, unless you have a few of them bookmarked, you have to go search for one, then choose which one to use, then navigate around the site, type in your word, click on the result to finally get the definition. Tedious! So here’s a quicker way of doing it.
Simply type define:term into the Google search bar. You’ll be presented with a list of definitions from a variety of sources. Links to related phrases are also provided. How easy was that!
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