Describing Words
This tool helps you find adjectives for things that you're trying to describe. Also check out ReverseDictionary.org and RelatedWords.org.
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Words to Describe detectors
Below is a list of describing words for detectors. You can sort the descriptive words by uniqueness or commonness using the button above. Sorry if there's a few unusual suggestions! The algorithm isn't perfect, but it does a pretty good job for most common nouns. Here's the list of words that can be used to describe detectors:
- striking real
- underwater metal
- finest galactic
- handheld metal
- ground-based passive
- emotional metal
- nonphysiological
- electrical but nonphysiological
- sensitive seismic
- cellular signal
- sophisticated metal
- electronic and radionic
- primary metal
- long-range sonic
- secondary metal
- supernaturally effective
- lax metal
- portable explosive
- infinitely tenuous
- diminutive crystal
- portable signal
- walk-through metal
- refined metal
- more, safe
- thethermal
- old-fashioned passive
- quick, courteous but thorough
- high-frequency signal
- generalized metal
- sophisticated imperial
- electronic mineral
- sensitive metal
- portable mineral
- coherent optical
- specialized long-range
- inferior metal
- silly metal
- separate powerful
- visual and normal
- thermal signal
- fashionably ornate
- thermal and magnetic
- biggest and most sensitive
- sensitive earthbound
- souped-up-metal
- new brand-new
- single passive
- explosive material
- simple current
- mundane metal
- plain vacuum-tube
- electrolytic and crystal
- makeshift metal
- infrared and other
- alternately larger and smaller
- magnetic and electronic
- alternately larger
- past metal
- courteous but thorough
- probably sonic
- secondhand metal
- internal metal
- state-of-the-art metal
- delicate wireless
- --crystal
- _crystal
- lateral and vertical
- own infrared
- supremely skilful
- lightweight metal
- highly proficient
- metal and explosive
- hand-held metal
- several electronic
- sensitive electrical
- portable metal
- ultra sensitive
- expensive metal
- i>mental
- arched metal
- modern lightweight
- simple crystal
- �metal
- simple mineral
- radionic
- incredibly sensitive
- best metal
- damned metal
- big crystal
- infrared
- fastest possible
- other phantom
- passive infrared
- good metal
- more exterior
- photochemical
- electrical current
- metal
- ugly metal
- gigantic crystal
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Describing Words
The idea for the Describing Words engine came when I was building the engine for Related Words (it's like a thesaurus, but gives you a much broader set of related words, rather than just synonyms). While playing around with word vectors and the "HasProperty" API of conceptnet, I had a bit of fun trying to get the adjectives which commonly describe a word. Eventually I realised that there's a much better way of doing this: parse books!
Project Gutenberg was the initial corpus, but the parser got greedier and greedier and I ended up feeding it somewhere around 100 gigabytes of text files - mostly fiction, including many contemporary works. The parser simply looks through each book and pulls out the various descriptions of nouns.
Hopefully it's more than just a novelty and some people will actually find it useful for their writing and brainstorming, but one neat little thing to try is to compare two nouns which are similar, but different in some significant way - for example, gender is interesting: "woman" versus "man" and "boy" versus "girl". On an inital quick analysis it seems that authors of fiction are at least 4x more likely to describe women (as opposed to men) with beauty-related terms (regarding their weight, features and general attractiveness). In fact, "beautiful" is possibly the most widely used adjective for women in all of the world's literature, which is quite in line with the general unidimensional representation of women in many other media forms. If anyone wants to do further research into this, let me know and I can give you a lot more data (for example, there are about 25000 different entries for "woman" - too many to show here).
The blueness of the results represents their relative frequency. You can hover over an item for a second and the frequency score should pop up. The "uniqueness" sorting is default, and thanks to my Complicated Algorithm™, it orders them by the adjectives' uniqueness to that particular noun relative to other nouns (it's actually pretty simple). As you'd expect, you can click the "Sort By Usage Frequency" button to adjectives by their usage frequency for that noun.
Special thanks to the contributors of the open-source mongodb which was used in this project.
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