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 transmitters
Below is a list of describing words for transmitters. 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 transmitters:
- intercontinental and interplanetary
- high-intensity, low-power
- solid-state optical
- innovative but problematic
- camouflage-signal
- aerial and underwater
- ingenious organic
- few operable
- tiny closed-circuit
- radio-signal
- mechanical short-wave
- damned organic
- independent medium-sized
- built-in miniature
- high-powered interstellar
- small push-button
- powerful super
- easy well-placed
- major wireless
- secret one-man
- simple wireless
- formerly long-range
- efficient short-wave
- long-range audio
- modular signal
- own short-wave
- homemade mobile
- high-speed, low-frequency
- ninth-dimensional
- wireless oral
- immense interplanetary
- tenth or hundredth
- tiny organic
- hypospatial
- simple signal
- carrier-current
- secret signal
- normal automatic
- special high-power
- space-denial
- fast wireless
- own directional
- tiny ultrasonic
- telepathic signal
- code-signal
- antique wireless
- ordinary wireless
- extraordinarily sensitive
- powerful handheld
- secret soviet
- big lunar
- better electrical
- small telepathic
- nutritional and chemical
- small but very workable
- new, local
- interuniversal
- several automatic
- nearest big
- such primary
- private underground
- miniature wireless
- important, great
- small, hand-held
- portable wireless
- little handheld
- weak telepathic
- homing signal
- portable short-wave
- fairly powerful
- little organic
- natural electrical
- trimensional
- far weaker
- powerful directional
- tiny wireless
- extremely low-frequency
- new illegal
- small hand-held
- moderately powerful
- highly directional
- high-gain
- delicate and elegant
- convenient and economical
- small remote
- tiny but powerful
- little portable
- high-frequency
- tiny electronic
- short-wave
- tiny signal
- low-power
- microelectronic
- competent and trustworthy
- voice-activated
- fourth-dimensional
- lingual
- battery-driven
- miniature electronic
- interoffice
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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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