![]() ![]() See also aut(o)-, hier-, olig(o)-, poly. To carry this off you must first be able to pronounce it properly, stressing the first and third syllables: hoi' pol-loi'. The plural of polus is polloi, thus hoi polloi may be used in English conversation to refer to "the many" or the masses, usually in a somewhat snobby, exclusive manner based on the presumption that the speaker is educated in the classics, therefore not one of hoi polloi any representatives of hoi polloi who are accidentally present and listening will lack the education to understand that it is they who are being discussed. Don't confuse poly- at the beginning of a word with -poly at the end of a word. Thus politics = affairs of state, organised in classical times by the Mediterranean city-states such as Athens and Rome. Thus olig| archy = rule by a few, oligo| poly = market with few sellers, olig| opsony = market with few buyers. Thus mon| archy = state of one ruler, mono| poly = market with one seller, mon| opsony = market with one buyer. Thus micro| eco| nomy = economy of the small unit. Thus macro| eco| nomy = economy of the large unit. It is unconnected with the word hysteria, from hustera (noun) = womb. By extension, hysteresis is used in the study of labour markets to describe the dependence of the equilibrium rate of unemployment upon its past values. Our modern sense of hierarchy as a multi-level organisation of principals and agents is then derived from the eastern Christian Orthodox church. Thus hetero| geneous = different in conception. Thus exo| genous = external in conception. Thus endo| genous = internal in conception. Thus eco| nomy = laws of the household, since in classical times the great majority lived, worked, consumed, and were taxed, in family household establishments also eco| no(m)| metric = relating to economic measurement. From the same word-stem come the English noun government, French gouvernement, and Russian guberniia. Thus cybernetics = the science of control systems based on self-aware error correction the association of cybernetics with the study of information flows gives rise to our modern use of terms such as cyber|space to describe the information properties of the internet. cyber-įrom kubernetes (noun) = steersman. Thus aristo| cracy = rule by the best people. People who should know better often confuse autarky with autarchy. Thus aut| archy = rule by one person, aut| arky = self-sufficiency, auto| cracy = rule by one person, auto| nomy = self-rule. To learn more, see the privacy policy.The terminology of political economy owes a profound debt to the language of ancient Greece, including for the words "political" and "economy". Special thanks to the contributors of the open-source code that was used in this project: Elastic Search, WordNet, and note that Reverse Dictionary uses third party scripts (such as Google Analytics and advertisements) which use cookies. The definitions are sourced from the famous and open-source WordNet database, so a huge thanks to the many contributors for creating such an awesome free resource. In case you didn't notice, you can click on words in the search results and you'll be presented with the definition of that word (if available). For those interested, I also developed Describing Words which helps you find adjectives and interesting descriptors for things (e.g. So this project, Reverse Dictionary, is meant to go hand-in-hand with Related Words to act as a word-finding and brainstorming toolset. That project is closer to a thesaurus in the sense that it returns synonyms for a word (or short phrase) query, but it also returns many broadly related words that aren't included in thesauri. I made this tool after working on Related Words which is a very similar tool, except it uses a bunch of algorithms and multiple databases to find similar words to a search query. ![]() So in a sense, this tool is a "search engine for words", or a sentence to word converter. It acts a lot like a thesaurus except that it allows you to search with a definition, rather than a single word. The engine has indexed several million definitions so far, and at this stage it's starting to give consistently good results (though it may return weird results sometimes). For example, if you type something like "longing for a time in the past", then the engine will return "nostalgia". It simply looks through tonnes of dictionary definitions and grabs the ones that most closely match your search query. The way Reverse Dictionary works is pretty simple. ![]()
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