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). For those interested, I also developed Describing Words which helps you find adjectives and interesting descriptors for things (e.g. 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). For example, if you type something like "longing for a time in the past", then the engine will return "nostalgia". It simply looks through tonnes of dictionary definitions and grabs the ones that most closely match your search query. Only one type species may exist for a single genus.The way Reverse Dictionary works is pretty simple. Assigned as Type Species: Flag the species as the type species for its parent genus.Theoretically, this action could be accomplished with a combination of changes involving Moved, Abolished, and New, but was created to maintain the history of all changes to the original taxon and its members. The change must be accompanied with an indication of where each of the constituent member taxa are to be moved. The original taxon that was split may, or may not, be retained, and the resulting set of taxa into which the original was split, may consist of existing or new taxa. Split: A taxon, along with its constituent members, are split into two or more taxa.The new name must adhere to the naming rules of the ICTV Code of Virus Classification and Nomenclature. This does NOT necessarily imply that the constituent members of the promoted taxon are subject to any change. Demoted: (This one is new for 2020.) A higher rank taxon is moved to a lower rank (potentially requiring a rename).Promoted: A lower rank taxon is moved to a higher rank (usually also requiring a rename).New ranks higher than Species must contain new (or moved) lower-rank members. (The move usually, but not necessarily, is to a taxon (existing or new) at the same rank as the original parent.) Moved: A lower rank taxon and its constituent members is moved from one higher rank taxon to another.All constituent, lower rank members will be automatically moved into the merged taxon. The single taxon may be one of the initial two, or it could be a newly created taxon. Merged: Two separate taxa will be merged into a single taxon. All constituent taxa need to be moved, otherwise they will also be deleted.
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