NearWord Visual Synonyms

NearWord Visual Synonyms

NearWord is a free visual synonym thesaurus, based on the WordNet dictionary and the Prefuse visualization toolkit. Just type in a word below and press Search! Passing the mouse cursor over a sense number displays the definition for that sense. Double-clicking on a synonym re-launches the display using that synonym as the root.

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Select: Click an item to make it stay still. Use ctrl-click to select multiple nodes.
Drag: Left-click and drag a node to move it around.
Pan: Left-click and drag the background to pan the display view.
Zoom: Right-click and drag the mouse up or down or use the scroll wheel to zoom the display view.
Zoom-To-Fit: Right-click once to zoom the display to fit the whole graph.