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Reverse Dictionary

Thu, 16 Nov 2006 05:02:48 GMT

clipped by: coconutshell
clipper's remarks: I've had many many many moments when I can't remember a word....I still haven't tried out this site though....I just thought it was interesting that someone actually finally came up with it...

Clip Source: onelook.com

OneLook Reverse Dictionary

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OneLook's reverse dictionary lets you describe a concept and get back a list of words and phrases related to that concept. Your description can be a few words, a sentence, a question, or even just a single word. Just type it into the box above and hit the "Find words" button. (Keep it short to get the best results.) In most cases you'll get back a list of related terms with the best matches shown first.

Tags: dictionary, reverse, language

Clipmarks Rollcall

Sun, 15 Oct 2006 23:50:40 GMT

clipped by: sohil
clipper's remarks: After skwirl and mousie have argued that we need a Roll Call. I thought I'd make one. But given I'm too lazy, I've left it upon the community to build one. Every REAL Clipper POP this so that we know you exist (Yes Mr. Daniel you must POP this too).

So POP away.

Clip Source: www.clipmarks.com

Interesting things
found on the web

Tags: clipmarks, ideas for clipmarks

Dalai Lama - Buddhist guide to life

Wed, 28 Mar 2007 18:32:25 GMT

clipped by: missmelq
clipper's remarks: Did't have quite enought room to get the last couple mentioned....

Clip Source: www.missico.com

Dalai Lama

1. Take into account that great love and great achievements involve great risk.

2. When you lose, don't lose the lesson.

3. Follow the three Rs: Respect for self, Respect for others and Responsibility for all your actions.

4. Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck.

5. Learn the rules so you know how to break them properly.

6. Don't let a little dispute injure a great friendship.

7. When you realize you've made a mistake, take immediate steps to correct it.

8. Spend some time alone every day.

9. Open your arms to change, but don't let go of your values.

10. Remember that silence is sometimes the best answer.

11. Live a good, honorable life. Then when you get older and think back, you'll be able to enjoy it a second time.

12. A loving atmosphere in your home is the foundation for your life.

13. In disagreements with loved ones deal only with the current situation. Don't bring up the past.

14. Share your knowledge. It's a way to achieve immortality.

Tags: buddhism, psychology, philosophy, religion, guide to happiness

23 Obscure and Obsolete Words

Fri, 29 Dec 2006 04:41:58 GMT

clipped by: missangelyss

Clip Source: www.canongate.net

23 Obscure and Obsolete Words

The average adult recognises 30,000 to 50,000 words, but only uses 10,000 to 15,000. However, there are actually about 1 million words in the English language, some of which - although obscure, forgotten, or rarely used - are worth reviving.

BOANTHROPY - A type of insanity in which a man thinks he is an ox.
CHANTEPLEURE - To sing and weep at the same time.
DIBBLE - To drink like a duck, lifting up the head after each sip.
EOSOPHOBIA - Fear of dawn.
EUGERIA - Normal and happy old age.
EUNEIROPHRENIA - Peace of mind after a pleasant dream.
EYESERVICE - Work done only when the boss is watching.
FELLOWFEEL - To crawl into the skin of another person so as to share his feelings, to empathise with.
GROAK - To watch people silently while they are eating, hoping they will ask you to join them.
GYNOTIKOLOBOMASSOPHILE - One who likes to nibble on a woman's earlobes.
HEBEPHRENIC - A condition of adolescent silliness.
IATROGENIC - Illness or disease caused by doctors or by prescribed treatment.
LAPLING - Someone who enjoys resting in women's laps.
LIBBERWORT - Food or drink that makes one idle and stupid, food of no nutritional value, `junk food'.
MEUPAREUNIA - A sexual act gratifying to only one participant.
NEANIMORPHIC - Looking younger than one's years.
ONIOCHALASIA - Buying as a means of mental relaxation.
PARNEL - A priest's mistress.
PERISTEROPHOBIA - Fear of pigeons.
PILGARLIC - A bald head that looks like a peeled garlic.
PREANTEPENULTIMATE - Fourth from last.
RESISTENTIALISM - Seemingly spiteful behaviour manifested by inanimate objects.
SUPPEDANEUM - A foot support for crucifix victims.

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Tags: english, grammar, wordsmith, words

The way it's going to be on clipmarks.com

Sat, 12 May 2007 21:44:42 GMT

clipped by: egoldstein
clipper's remarks: I've done a lot of talking and writing lately about the type of environment we're trying to create here on clipmarks. I hope/think that i've been very clear. I know i've given it a great deal of thought. Please click through to the source and read the entire blog post to know where i stand.

I want to be 100% clear. I am going to begin disabling accounts of users who i feel consistently violate the spirit of what this is all about.

Clip Source: clipmarks.wordpress.com

Clipmarks.com will be a place where people can share information, ideas and opinions in a civilized, respectful way. It will be a place where people who are sick and tired of the typical hostility, name calling and bitter divisiveness that is so common in most of our media can come to get away from that without losing the variety or substance of the content. Clipmarks is not a place for liberals or conservatives, democrats or republicans. It is a place for liberals and conservatives, democrats and republicans, and everyone in between or on either side of those all-to-often conveniently used labels.

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What the Hell is this shit!

Tue, 06 Jun 2006 06:37:22 GMT

clipped by: skwirlinator
clipper's remarks: Athletes?
[img]http://i59.photobucket.com/albums/g291/skwirlinator/wrong.jpg?t=1175764539[/img]

Clip Source: www.joen.org

Tags: weird, funny, humor, sic

Does this remind you of anything?

Fri, 01 Feb 2008 15:47:01 GMT

clipped by: bignosemousie
clipper's remarks: Am I the only one that thought of Clipmarks?

Clip Source: dilbert.com

Tags: dlibert, clipmarks

The Newspaper Clipping Generator

Sat, 08 Jul 2006 01:47:22 GMT

clipped by: invictus

Clip Source: tools.fodey.com

The Newspaper Clipping Generator

Tags: humor, newspaper clipping

Don't Write Like An Idiot

Wed, 03 Oct 2007 19:19:00 GMT

clipped by: bignosemousie
clipper's remarks: This is a reclip of an older clip that Invictus made. His original exceeded the current clip limit so I couldn't revive it.

Refresher everyone.

Clip Source: web.centre.edu

You may not notice it yourself, but if you don't know the difference between YOUR and YOU'RE, you come across as an idiot whenever you use them. They are not interchangeable, and neither are THERE, THEIR, and THEY'RE, nor any of the examples explained below. As more and more communication takes place online and in writing, through chat, email and messaging, certain common misspellings of words and contractions have become dangerously frequent, reinforcing their repeated misuse. This page doesn't aspire to make you a decent writer, or even a competent speller. It only seeks to keep you from making an ass of yourself.

YOUR ≠ YOU'RE

ITS ≠ IT'S

THERE ≠ THEIR ≠ THEY'RE

*NEW* ACCEPT ≠ EXCEPT *NEW*

NOUNS ≠ NOUN'S

WHO'S ≠ WHOSE

KNOW ≠ NO ≠ NOW

TOO ≠ TO ≠ TWO

OUR ≠ ARE

WHERE ≠ WE'RE ≠ WERE

AFFECT ≠ EFFECT

Tags: spelling, grammar, writing, common mistakes, english language, write.better.look.smarter

Clipmarks featured as Site of the Week by PCMag.com

Mon, 05 Mar 2007 10:26:58 GMT

clipped by: egoldstein
clipper's remarks: Check out Davis Janowski's review of Clipmarks 2.0

Clip Source: www.pcmag.com

Clipmarks is an easy-to-use and compelling application and site for clipping, depositing, and sharing just those pieces of Web pages that matter most to you; you can then keep them private or share them with the hospitable, sociable, engaging, and insightful Clipmarks community.

Tags: clipmarks, web, pcmag.com

The Shadow Knows

Tue, 19 Jun 2007 20:43:19 GMT

clipped by: bignosemousie
clipper's remarks: The art of the sculpture is in the form its shadow makes when illuminated in a certain way.

Clip Source: www.pantherhouse.com

{ Shigeo Fukuda, Lunch with a Helmet On, 1987 | 848 forks, knives, and spoons | video }

{ Tim Noble and Sue Webster, Dirty White Trash [With Gulls], 1998 | six months’ worth of the artists’ rubbish }

{ Tim Noble and Sue Webster, Real Life is Rubbish, 2002 | two separate piles of general household rubbish onto which a light is projected, creating a shadow self-portrait of Noble and Webster }

{ Tim Noble and Sue Webster, HE/SHE, 2003 }

{ unknown artist, unsourced image }

Tags: art, shadows, illusion, design

Six Perfect Words

Fri, 31 Aug 2007 17:17:10 GMT

clipped by: bignosemousie
clipper's remarks: Submit your own six words. You could be published in the Six-Word Memoir Book. Leave your own six words here too.

He vanished after clipping her obituary.

Clip Source: smithmag.net

Legend has it that Ernest Hemingway was once challenged to write a story in six words. The result was "For sale: baby shoes, never used."

It could be the title of your autobiography, or maybe your epitaph. Shorter than haiku and meatier that a one-liner, it truly makes you take stock of who you are. Try it.

"Take a left turn, then fly."
– Hillary Carlip

Eight thousand orgasms. Only one baby.
– Neal Pollack

I still make coffee for two.
– Zak Nelson

"On the seventh word, he rested."
– Stephen J. Dubner

"My spiritual path is 100 proof."
– John House

"He wore dresses. This caused messes."
– Josh Kilmer-Purcell

Tags: words, literature, reading, books

Women dying from ban on abortions

Mon, 12 Nov 2007 13:28:19 GMT

clipped by: ljsdesign
clipper's remarks: “How could they let four days pass when every minute was precious? They denied her the right to medical care, to a life.”

Clip Source: www.msnbc.msn.com

Two weeks after Olga Reyes danced at her wedding, her bloated and disfigured body was laid to rest in an open coffin — the victim, her husband and some experts say, of Nicaragua’s new no-exceptions ban on abortion.

Reyes, a 22-year-old law student, suffered an ectopic pregnancy. The fetus develops outside the uterus, cannot survive and causes bleeding that endangers the mother. But doctors seemed afraid to treat her because of the anti-abortion law

By the time they took action, it was too late

Nicaragua last year became one of 35 countries that ban all abortions, even to save the life of the mother, according to the Center for Reproductive Rights in New York. The ban has been strictly followed, leaving the country torn between a strong tradition of women’s rights and a growing religious conservatism.

She added that she sees hysterectomies and severe infections that leave women sterile or dead because obstetricians can’t take any action that might harm a living fetus.

Tags: women, pregnancy, news, just wrong, equality, discrimination, civil rights, ban

"I am the change!"

Fri, 01 Aug 2008 20:30:11 GMT

clipped by: bignosemousie
clipper's remarks: Heartwarming.

Clip Source: www.freetheslaves.net

Each year Leslie's 8th graders at Saint Joseph's School in Crescent Springs, Kentucky have a service project. She shared the story of child slaves with her class. They adopted the issue for their service project.

At the time it took $560 for our partner on the ground to rescue, rehabilitate, and reunite the children with their parents. The 50 eighth graders set a high goal -- they wanted to rescue and rehabilitate 40 kids a half a world away.

These 8th graders wanted to raise $22,400. Josh, one of the students, summed it up for everyone, "Everybody wants to save a life. We kind of feel like we'll be saving 40 lives if we can raise enough money to rescue the kids."

They raised over $28,500 in just six weeks! That means children are free today who would still be enslaved if these kids had not heard their story. And acted! For the rest of their lives they will know that they were able to change a life. They will know, 'I am the change!'

Tags: slavery, freedom, hope, change, youth

Unchain your dogs

Thu, 21 Aug 2008 23:38:23 GMT

clipped by: bignosemousie
clipper's remarks: Lots of information at the source. Photos that will break your heart.

Unchain your dog, please.

Clip Source: www.unchainyourdog.org

What is meant by "chaining" or "tethering" dogs?

These terms refer to the practice of fastening a dog to a stationary object or stake, usually in the owner's backyard, as a means of keeping the animal under control. These terms do not refer to the periods when an animal is walked on a leash.

Why is tethering dogs inhumane?

Dogs are naturally social beings who thrive on interaction with human beings and other animals. In the wild, dogs and wolves live, eat, sleep, and hunt with a family of other canines. Dogs are genetically determined to live in a group.

A chained animal is caught in a vicious cycle; frustrated by long periods of boredom and social isolation, he becomes a neurotic shell of his former self—further deterring human interaction and kindness. In the end, the helpless dog can only suffer the frustration of watching the world go by in isolation—a cruel fate for what is by nature a highly social animal.

Tags: animals need love and protection

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Reverse Dictionary

OneLook Reverse Dictionary

How do I use OneLook's reverse dictionary feature?

Clipmarks Rollcall

Dalai Lama - Buddhist guide to life

Dalai Lama

23 Obscure and Obsolete Words

23 Obscure and Obsolete Words

Other lists in Words

The way it's going to be on clipmarks.com

What the Hell is this shit!

Does this remind you of anything?

The Newspaper Clipping Generator

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Don't Write Like An Idiot

Clipmarks featured as Site of the Week by PCMag.com

The Shadow Knows

Six Perfect Words

Women dying from ban on abortions

"I am the change!"

Unchain your dogs