Google Dictionary launched!

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  Kaustubh Katdare

  Interesting - Definitions of Engineer by Google:
  
  
  

  • An engineer is a person who uses scientific knowledge to design, construct, and maintain engines and machines or structures such as roads, railways, and bridges. N-COUNT
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  • An engineer is a person who repairs mechanical or electrical devices. N-COUNT
    
    • They send a service engineer to fix the disk drive. job
  • An engineer is a person who is responsible for maintaining the engine of a ship while it is at sea. N-COUNT job
  • When a vehicle, bridge, or building is engineered, it is planned and constructed using scientific methods. VERB usu passive
    
    • Many of Kuwait's spacious freeways were engineered by W S Atkins. 'be' V-ed
    • ...the car's better designed and better engineered rivals. V-ed
  • If you engineer an event or situation, you arrange for it to happen, in a clever or indirect way. VERB
    
    • He could stand no more and engineered an escape. V n
    • Some people believe that his murder was engineered by Stalin. 'be' V-ed
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  Saandeep Sreerambatla

  Its good !!
  
  I use dictionary very often 😀
  
  But it is not giving word suggestions I mean If I spell something incorrect it should give me atleast a near by valid word.
  
  Hope they include this soon.
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  Sahithi Pallavi

  good..! thanks for your information Biggie...!
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  sarveshgupta

  For Crazy GOOGLE says:
  
  If you describe someone or something as crazy, you think they are very foolish or strange. ADJ
  
  Someone who is crazy is insane. ADJ
  
  If you are crazy about something, you are very enthusiastic about it. If you are not crazy about something, you do not like it. ADJ
  
  If you are crazy about someone, you are deeply in love with them. ADJ
  
  If something or someone makes you crazy or drives you crazy, they make you extremely annoyed or upset. ADJ
  
  You use like crazy to emphasize that something happens to a great degree. PHRASE
  
  So what type of crazyengineer you are CEans?
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  sarveshgupta

  English-Scared

  Its good !!
  
  I use dictionary very often 😀
  
  But it is not giving word suggestions I mean If I spell something incorrect it should give me atleast a near by valid word.
  
  Hope they include this soon.

  They do give suggestions but only if you are very close to the right word
  and yes the suggestions are too limited
  
  Hope they ramp it up soon as it is main drawback in this wonderful and simple online dictionary
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  Ashraf HZ

  Some people believe that his murder was engineered by Stalin.

  Darn, now they associate engineering with murder? lol
  
  Nice feature. No more typing out the "define:" tag anymore 😀
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  sarveshgupta

  yeh ash Since engineering involves designing or constructing to attain a result
  
  why not we can call murder to be engineered by someone
  
  And we can very well have one more stream of engineering that is killer engineering
  
  hahaha...😀
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  vishnu priya

  Good interface.,