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The book for when you know what it is, but not what it's called.
Welcome to the expanded and updated Descriptionary. This fourth edition includes some extremely interesting and useful new categories, such as Anthropology and Archaeology, Brain, Chemistry, Dinosaurs, Evolution, Fishing, Gems, Jewelry, Prison Slang, Rocks and Gems, Sleep, Surfing, and Torture and Punishment, to name a few. It has also greatly broadened its lists of terms related to farming, finance, geology, Internet, meteorology, occult, psychology, and politics, among others.
As in the last edition, the end of the book features the vocabulary builder, Words You Should Know, which contains more than 1,050 words and expressions every articulate person should know.
Why use Descriptionary?
Descriptionary provides indispensable glossaries of terms to help you define and describe a subject you are writing about, be it cathedrals or castles, the stock market or stock cars. Consult Descriptionary whenever you are tempted to use words such as watchamacallit, thingamajig, or doohickey or whenever you are at a loss for a precise term.
Let’s say, for example, you need the word for a sharp, steely descending peak, but you just cannot seem to bring the word to mind. Consult the standard dictionary and you will confront the age-old question of how to look up a word when you do not know what the word is. The answer is, you cannot—not with a standard diction- ary, anyway. Nor will a thesaurus offer much help. A thesaurus lists the synonyms of mountains, not the components of mountains.
Enter Descriptionary to find the word you are looking for: matterhorn. This book lists not only definitions and synonyms, but also all the technically accurate words used in describing a mountain—words like cairn, cordillera, couloir, Krumm- holz zone, ridgeback, saddle, scree, and sierra, to name just a few.
Through a Descriptionary listing you will discover that there is a phrase for the leeward side of a mountain (rain shadow), and there is a name for the beautiful light that bathes a peak at sunset (alpenglow), and there is a word for the lateral ridge that projects from the side of a mountain (spur). And unlike when you are using a dictionary, you need only look under Mountains to find them all.
The value of having related words all in one place will become obvious the more you use Descriptionary. For example, you may discover words that you never dreamed existed (do you know where the murder holes are in a castle?) but that you might find useful in giving your work added authority or pizzazz.
Unlike most dictionaries, Descriptionary can be picked up and read for sheer entertainment alone, or for inspiration or ideas.
Place Descriptionary between your standard dictionary and thesaurus. We think you will find it equally as useful as either of these standard references, with one dif- ference: It is twice as much fun.
mdx 词典
说白了就是个主题分类词典，Descriptionary 这个主题词典是为英文写作编写的，很好用，话不多说，直接上图：
第一次做，技术不是很成熟，这本 mdx 目前可能存在瑕疵：
1. 少许字母原本是大写的这里是小写了（比如 CAD，显示成了 CAd）；
2. 有些 See Also 未高亮。
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