Why the hell does Google suggest me ``dictionary'' when I look up a word? I just want to know what ``forfend'' means, leave me alone with your fucking dictionaries. You don't make the least bit of sense.
Dictionary \Dic"tion*a*ry\, n.; pl. Dictionaries. [Cf. F.
dictionnaire. See Diction.]
1. A book containing the words of a language, arranged
alphabetically, with explanations of their meanings; a
lexicon; a vocabulary; a wordbook.
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I applied myself to the perusal of our writers; and
noting whatever might be of use to ascertain or
illustrate any word or phrase, accumulated in time
the materials of a dictionary. --Johnson.
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2. Hence, a book containing the words belonging to any system
or province of knowledge, arranged alphabetically; as, a
dictionary of medicine or of botany; a biographical
dictionary.
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Anonymous2009-02-27 2:50
forfend means "forbid". Its most common use is the phrase "heaven forfend!"
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Anonymous2009-02-27 3:31
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Definitions of forfend on the Web:
debar: prevent the occurrence of; prevent from happening; "Let's avoid a confrontation"; "head off a confrontation"; "avert a strike"
wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn
To prohibit; to forbid; to avert
en.wiktionary.org/wiki/forfend
If you just want a quick definition of a word from google, simply search for ``define:word_goes_here'' (without the quotes). It's usually inferior to the Dictionaries you've been avoiding lately OP, but it's usually useful and informative.
Since when did /prog/ start to be used for generic tech support and internet usage?
It's just Google's way of politely saying ``Now listen up you fucker, every time you submit this form, a query is sent to several thousand servers, picked from a cluster so huge that you couldn't afford to power it for more than a second even if you mortgaged your parents' house.
We employ the brightest programmers money can buy to create efficient algorithms that bring you the most relevant and useful search results for the word you entered, weaving a semantic web while ignoring the mounds of spam and worthless geocities home pages.
Do you really wish to use all that power for a trivial lookup in a search domain so simple you could serve it out off a PDA?''
Or not. Anyway, when I saw it I though that if they really detect dictionary-like usage patterns, then that's rather clever of them.