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From: "Drew Smith" <>
Subject: RE: [APG] Searching for a word defination selectman
Date: Sun, 2 Apr 2006 12:10:37 -0400
In-Reply-To: <7.0.0.16.0.20060401231437.01c155b0@cox.net>


And here's one more way to find definitions quickly: In Google, put
"define:" immediately in front of the word in the search box. (In this
particular case, you'll want to do "selectman" and "selectmen" separately.)


Drew

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kathy Rippel [mailto:]
> Sent: Sunday, April 02, 2006 12:21 AM
> To:
> Subject: RE: [APG] Searching for a word defination selectman
>
> Just thought I'd mention a reference hint for this kind of
> question. I know Drew would also know this, but perhaps others don't.
>
> 1. Go to Google and type in your query for your word.
> 2. After the results are shown, look at the light blue bar at
> the top that tells how many results were obtained. On most
> requests there will be some that looks like: [defintion} 3.
> Click on this link and you will get several definitions and
> other discussions on your topic.
> On this question, definitions are found from The American
> Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition,
> West's Encyclopedia of American Law, and "WordNet 1.7.1".
>
> Kathy

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