Re: Backward ordered dictionary

On Feb 28, 12:30 pm, Mok-Kong Shen <mok-kong.s...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
grammatim wrote:
Mok-Kong Shen wrote:
For German there are backward ordered dictionaries
(rückläufiges Wörterbuch). Are there similar ones for
English?
It's called a "reverse dictionary."

No. Please see the explanation of the term "rückläufiges
Wörterbuch" athttp://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/

M. K. Shen

As I thought, you're looking for a dictionary alphabetized from the
right.
The other type of dictionary is one which goes from "meanings" (or at
least glosses) to the words which have those meanings.
I'm never sure which one people are talking about when they refer to a
"reverse dictionary". My impression is that the terminology is not
standardized.
I'm afraid I cannot be of any bibliographic help, though I have
occasionally wished for such a thing (the reverse-alphabetized). Maybe
somebody else will know.

Ross Clark
.

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