Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. One of the pivoted adjustable cams which form the throat of a drawhead-die through which wire or lead pipe is drawn.
Wiktionary
- n. One of several pivoted pieces forming the throat of an adjustable die used in drawing wire, lead pipe, etc.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. One of several pivoted pieces forming the throat of an adjustable die used in drawing wire, lead pipe, etc.
Examples
“Using free software called wordle, the students scanned their text and created a picture document that identified the commonly used words from their essays.”
“I ended up with a tag cloud, a "wordle" (kind of like a tag cloud) and, my favorite, the word tree.”
“I think Wordle does a nicer job of this. [www. wordle.net]”
TagCrowd Creates Word Frequency Cloud | Lifehacker Australia
“This is a wordle of ~synthesis~ over the last year.”
“You imply that we are obsessed with wordle. net and that we check blogs waaay often.”
In Which We Uncharacteristically Attempt to Offer You Some Comfort
“Here is a very cool little wordle based on this website.”
Wordle Cloud for The Creative Penn - by Joanna Penn | The Creative Penn
“Listed below are links to weblogs that reference wordle:”
“A while back I created a wordle cloud of all of my MP3s using exported xml data.”
Dusty Tunes Shows Off Your ITunes Collection Or Playlists | Lifehacker Australia
“I did a wordle of my writing once and “However” dominated the picture.”
“Suppose you can give Google the URL for someone's (view all by), have it do a nice name search (fuzzy for real names, to catch Jim for James and Dave for David) and a wordle, then diff that fuzzy name match and wordle with internet-wide posting profiles, perhaps adding in a fudge factor using a ML wordle to balance for the topics we discuss here.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘wordle’.
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RIA
List of The Best Rich Internet Applications
aviary, sumopaint, prezi, picnik, splashup, soundation, ghost, colorotate, grooveshark, zoho, soundcloud, wordnik and 20 more...
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Twitter favourites
The new favourite words of people on Twitter.
A script searches Twitter for "X is my new favourite word" and adds it to this list.
See also:
bumwank, calamity, recalcitrant, gayenese, jeeze, nonsense, flabbergasted, juxtapose, procrastinating, ossanity, biffing, loser and 1972 more... -
artoparts's Words
illation, finite, edify, abide, abrade, vouch, amiss, vociferate, perusing, techantiquery, rigamarole, holon and 615 more...
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fitting words
a list of words from the indo european root ar- and variations : to fit together
ambry, rede, coarctate, anarthrous, artiodactyl, exordium, harmony, army, armoire, arm, armada, armadillo and 349 more...
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The Neighbours
There are other word-related time sinks on the Internet, and some of them, despite not being Wordie, are fun. So let's collect their names.
wordle, human brain cloud, deepleap, unbook'd, freerice, my first dictionary, wordlustitude, the story of man, Quadrivial Quandry
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startups (my favs)
web applications I Admire.
(some aren't startups anymore.. but are Web 2.0 thinking and innovative in nature)
( _mark, personal list )wordnik, prezi, sumopaint, grooveshark, tumblr, g.ho.st, twitter, friendfeed, vimeo, issuu, hulu, pandora and 34 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for wordle.
marky telofy, good one ;) Mar 4, 2010
Telofy The last chapter of The Shadow of the Torturer by Gene Wolfe Mar 2, 2010
Prolagus The bug page. Mar 2, 2010
Prolagus The Feedback page. Mar 2, 2010
Telofy Yeah, I remember playing around with that a while ago; thanks for reminding me.
My recent short story wordled.
Another one. Mar 2, 2010
marky Wordle Example 2 Mar 1, 2010
marky Wordle Example Mar 1, 2010
artoparts The first use of tag clouds on a high-profile website was on the photo sharing site Flickr based on Zeitgeist a visualization of Web site referrers. Tag clouds have also been popularized by Del.icio.us, Redrover and Technorati. The first published appearance of a tag cloud, or weighted list as the "subconscious files" in Douglas Coupland's "Microserfs." Feb 18, 2009