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Definitions

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. The return of a portion of the output of a process or system to the input, especially when used to maintain performance or to control a system or process.
  2. n. The portion of the output so returned.
  3. n. Sound created when a transducer such as a microphone or electric guitar picks up sound from a speaker connected to an amplifier and regenerates it back through the amplifier.
  4. n. The return of information about the result of a process or activity; an evaluative response: asked the students for feedback on the new curriculum.
  5. n. The process by which a system, often biological or ecological, is modulated, controlled, or changed by the product, output, or response it produces.

Wiktionary

  1. n. Critical assessment on information produced
  2. n. cybernetics, systems The signal that is looped back to control a system within itself.
  3. n. The high-pitched howling noise heard when there's a loop between a microphone and a speaker.
  4. v. music To generate the high-frequency sound by allowing a speaker to cause vibration of the sound generator of a musical instrument connected by an amplifier to the speaker.
  5. v. transitive To provide informational feedback to.
  6. v. transitive To convey by means of specialized communications channel.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. the process in which part of the output of a system is returned to its input.
  2. n. response to an inquiry or experiment.

WordNet 3.0

  1. v. submit (information) again to a program or automatic system
  2. v. respond to a query or outcome
  3. n. response to an inquiry or experiment
  4. n. the process in which part of the output of a system is returned to its input in order to regulate its further output

Etymologies

  1. feed +‎ back (Wiktionary)

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synonyms (2)

Words with the same meaning

  1. Larsen effect
  1. audio feedback

hypernyms (8)

Words that are more generic or abstract

  1. return
  1. render
  1. propose
  1. advise
  1. suggest
  1. response
  1. answer
  1. reply

same context (22)

Words that are found in similar contexts

  1. input
  2. update
  3. access
  4. evaluation
  1. review
  2. monitor
  3. correction
  4. response
  1. communication
  2. guidance
  3. coverage
  4. interaction
  1. audio
  2. comment
  3. measurement
  4. analog
  1. bandwidth
  2. stimulus
  3. transmission
  4. reference
  1. link
  2. insight

rhymes (1)

Words with the same terminal sound

  1. biofeedback

reverse dictionary (18)

Words that contain this word in their definition

  1. negative feedback circuit
  2. control circuit
  3. negative feedback
  1. positive feedback
  2. regeneration
  3. homeostasis
  1. open loop
  2. servomechanism
  3. tickler coil
  1. closed loop
  2. servo
  3. servosystem
  1. feedback
  2. feedback loop
  3. degeneration
  1. governor
  2. loop gain
  3. closed-loop system

tags (4)

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  1. meta
  1. db
  1. cvvccvcc
  1. wordnik

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tagging (6)

Words tagged ‘feedback’

  1. about
  1. addon
  1. admire
  1. adobeair
  1. new interface
  1. the new official feedback wotzer

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  • bilby Cue 'The high-pitched howling noise'! Jan 2, 2013

  • bilby Thank you for the response. The frustration I had yesterday was in trying to find an example of milch that wasn't collocated with cow. Jan 2, 2013

  • erinmckean hi bilby! Yes, I would love it if we could select the examples. There are some hard questions about sorting/indexing that have to get straightened out. :-( Jan 2, 2013

  • bilby Anyway my suggestion was that it would be useful, occasionally, to be able to select the examples. At the moment they appear in who-knows order. You can get more by clicking the 10 more link at the bottom...another 10 in who-knows order. What if I wanted examples pre-1950? Or from academic writing only? etc. Are there ways we could potentially sort the feed that gets pumped into the examples? Jan 2, 2013

  • bilby I hate that feedback tab. You try to put something in and then get bailed-up with a demand to go retrieve a code you didn't request from your email junk. Commentus interruptus. Jan 2, 2013

  • ruzuzu This way to the current feedback feature:
    http://support.wordnik.com/wordnik Jan 6, 2012

  • paragon 'appears on 94 other lists and has 25 comments', it would be great if there was an option to disable the < details >. Because when bulk copying and pasting (and there are different reasons each time) word lists, it's fairly annoying to have to remove each instance of < details >.

    So yeah. Jan 1, 2012

  • marky i suppose i need to clarify, where do i go to a page to see the list of all words tagged 'fun to say'? Dec 23, 2011

  • marky nevermind i found it. that was too hard to find! it should also be on the top or bottom of the list page as it is on the word lists themselves!

    plus site's acting rather odd. Dec 22, 2011

  • marky why can i suddenly not find where to start a new list? Dec 22, 2011

  • marky why can i suddenly not find where to start a new list? Dec 22, 2011

  • marky where are the tag pages?? http://www.wordnik.com/tags/fun%20to%20say Dec 15, 2011

  • erinmckean Thanks oroboros -- seems like a transient error. Cash money should be cash money again now. Dec 14, 2011

  • oroboros Can't look up cash money -- "500 server error" Dec 14, 2011

  • marky definitely rockin the site now, but..

    why is the add word input field waay at the bottom of the page on lists? :/ thats an unnecessary hassle to have to nav to the bottom every time. Dec 11, 2011

  • marky is it faster? ok it is slightly.

    i'd like to customize my profile to ignore all images. then it will be fast. thanks. Nov 30, 2011

  • marky disregard my complaint about the font. it was a terrible helvetica i had installed on my system. once i removed it, it fell back to default arial and looks fine.

    my apologies, but i still think the user customizable font type and size is a cool idea. Nov 30, 2011

  • marky you know what would be neat? the ability for users to change the font between a few selections. should be a straightforward css / js situation. Nov 30, 2011

  • biocon Must one go to a word page to delete words in a list? Cannot this be done within the list itself? Nov 29, 2011

  • biocon Lists are so much easier to create and populate now! Nov 29, 2011

  • erinmckean Thanks folks! I'm making tickets for all these requests and comments.

    Prolagus, we'll get those tag-comments back eventually. Tags don't have their own pages now, so it's a matter of figuring out where to put them ... Nov 29, 2011

  • bilby May I just point out that there was a reason 'Recent Open Lists' was on the Front/Zeitgeist/Community page. It was to foster a spirit of collaboration so that a new open list was quickly noticed and other users to join to contribute to building the list. Either the New Lists column needs to identify which are open and which aren't or we still need 2 columns. And both New Open Lists and New (Restricted) Lists need a link underneath them to All Open Lists and All (Restricted) Lists. I'm not sure restricted is the best term. Perhaps hernesheir might say intestine.
    Also, the Recently Viewed Words was, in the past few months, my favourite feature of the site. Now it's gone. Nov 29, 2011

  • Prolagus By the way, imperfect as it is, this is the first real tangible improvement since the Wordnik era. At last! Congratulations to (whomever? whoever? whatever) is behind it. Nov 29, 2011

  • bilby I find it creepy that this site has tracked every word I have ever looked up. I have set it to 'off' and also share with public as 'off' but it still seems to be on. Even if I did want to see them, I'd hardly want them right at the top of the page. Nov 29, 2011

  • Prolagus Accessing all of my lists now takes longer than ever: main page -> click on my name -> click "my profile" -> scroll down to "lists" -> click "all lists". Nov 29, 2011

  • Prolagus I could only change that preference after connecting from an actual computer (something I can do less and less often nowadays). Nov 29, 2011

  • biocon Yeah. I just noticed that the names of all of one's lists can be viewed on a word page regardless of the number of them. Thanks Erin and team. Nov 29, 2011

  • biocon Congratulations Erin! I am delighted by the information that now appears on our Profile pages. Nov 29, 2011

  • Prolagus By "can't" I mean that I get an error message. Accessing Wordnik from Dolphin Browser for Pad on a Honeycomb tablet. Nov 29, 2011

  • Prolagus I can't hide the "recent lookups" from my profile. I had them off before the newest change, and I think you should keep the previous settings by default. Nov 29, 2011

  • Prolagus I'd like an answer please. Nov 29, 2011

  • bilby I don't get this stupid shit about a verification code, so I can't leave my comment on the new official feedback wotzer.

    like so.

    I did in fact try using a null code - can you blame me? - and that didn't work either. Nov 29, 2011

  • Prolagus Once more, for the umpteenth time:
    Some tags in Wordie had comments. When are we getting those back? Will anybody bother telling me something about that, or should I just forget about it and shut up? Nov 28, 2011

  • erinmckean Oh, thank you hernesheir, those are all good points ... the eight syllables one is fixed in the new site, here's a sneak preview (http://cl.ly/343Z0J3g1T162H0k2Z3a)

    Although it's not showing all 140 words. I've put in a query about that. Nov 27, 2011

  • hernesheir Three things about the current state of the Wordnik tagging system that I wish were different:
    1. Some tags have dozens and dozens of entries. Currently, Wordnik only displays a certain number of words so tagged, but not all. See words tagged "convowel".
    2. One used to be able to remove a tag from a word they tagged previously. This is no longer the case, and mistakes cannot be corrected.
    3 Not all tags that are more than one word long display the list of words so tagged. See the tag "eight syllables" for an example. I have tagged over 140 words thusly and not a one is displayed when I click on the "eight syllables" tag I created. Nov 27, 2011

  • erinmckean Hi Rolig! Only a few folks have access to the preview, which is the only place where you can see the "feedback" tab right now. Nov 25, 2011

  • ruzuzu I might get more time later today--I've been traveling for the Thanksgiving holiday and I haven't had much of a chance to play with it yet. Nov 25, 2011

  • rolig Is anybody else using the "feedback" tab on the left side of the new Wordnik Preview? It seems like I am the only one asking questions and pointing out problems, which is crazy, since I know many other people should have comments about the new interface. Nov 24, 2011

  • vanishedone Since we can't list profiles, this will have to do. This way to the Feedback account. Nov 20, 2009

  • bilby Health warning: do not stand between an Italian and ripe tomatoes. Sep 13, 2008

  • Prolagus Dear Prolagus,
    the dinner you just made didn't satisfy me at all.
    Please try to use better tomatoes for your sauce.
    Best regards,
    Prolagus Sep 13, 2008

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