Here is a small but cool update to Google Search: Google’s dictionary definitions — which you can invoke by using a query like “define crunch ” — now feature significantly more information about ...

Sexist synonyms for "woman" in the Oxford Dictionary of English galvanized more than 30,000 people to sign a petition calling for their removal. A Change.org petition started in June by London-based ...

Dictionary.com, part of the Ask.com network, has launched a free iPhone app that delivers lets you look up definitions and synonyms from Dictionary.com and Thesaurus.com, reaching into a database of ...

Developed by Benjamin Mayo, Writing Aid is a $0.99 iPhone app that combines word definitions with meanings and synonyms. Based off a single search field where you can type what you’re looking for, ...

Just about everyone has used Google to look up the definition of a word before. You know, you just type in the word "define" followed by the word you want to look up and the definition will appear ...

New Delhi: After facing a lot of criticism for its sexist and offensive definition of the word ‘woman’, the Oxford University Press has finally updated its dictionary. The much-needed move comes after ...

THIS is an extremely useful volume, giving in alphabetical order a list of about 14,000 definitions and cross-references of chemicals and substances used in the chemical and allied industries, ...

Campaigners and academics have called on Oxford University Press to change what they say are "sexist" dictionary definitions of the word "woman". They say claiming that words like "bitch" or "maid" ...