Refine options

We provide our more rarely used query refinement options on this page. Query refinement is about adding or removing query words to find the pages you need. Once you become an expert, some of these can be done by hand, without needing to visit this page at all.

Click on words to add them to the query.

1. Edit by hand: By adding and removing words, you can get quite different results.

2. Search within results: If you are getting too many results, search within your results.
(This is equivalent to putting + in front of your old words and adding new words.)

Within: Blue Mussel

3. Include plurals and other word forms: If you think you are missing good results because of plurals.

Try the query: Blue# Mussel#.
(The # operator allows you to match word variants. e.g. dogs# matches dogs and dog.)

4. Dictionary: Do your words appear in the dictionary?

blue:

mussel:

5. Corpus: Do your words appear in the collection of information (corpus) being searched?

Corpus dictionary is unavailable.

6. Sounds like: Additional words from the corpus (possibly including misspellings) which sound similar.

blue: No further suggestions.

mussel: No further suggestions.

7. Look up your words in a thesaurus:

Roget's Thesaurus (1911 edition)

Knowledge.-- N. knowledge; cognizance, cognition, cognoscence|; acquaintance, experience, ken, privity, insight, familiarity; comprehension, apprehension; recognition; appreciation (judgment) ; intuition; conscience, consciousness; perception, precognition; acroamatics|!. light, enlightenment; glimpse, inkling; glimmer, glimmering; dawn; scent, suspicion; impression (idea) ; discovery 480a. system of knowledge, body of knowledge; science, philosophy, pansophy; acroama|!; theory, aetiology; circle of the sciences; pandect, doctrine, body of doctrine; cyclopedia, encyclopedia; school (system of opinions) . tree of knowldge; republic of letters (language) . erudition, learning, lore, scholarship, reading, letters; literature; book madness; book learning, bookishness; bibliomania, bibliolatry; information, general information; store of knowledge education (teaching) ; culture, menticulture, attainments; acquirements, acquisitions; accomplishments; proficiency; practical knowledge (skill) ; liberal education; dilettantism; rudiments (beginning) . deep knowledge, profound knowledge, solid knowledge, accurate knowledge, acroatic knowledge, acroamatic knowledge, vast knowledge, extensive knowledge, encyclopedic knowledge, encyclopedic learning; omniscience, pantology. march of intellect; progress of science, advance of science, advance of learning; schoolmaster abroad. V. know, ken, scan, wot; wot aware, be aware adj.- of; ween, weet, trow, have, possess. conceive; apprehend, comprehend; take, realize, understand, savvy* [U.S.], appreciate; fathom, make out; recognize, discern, perceive, see, get a sight-of, experience. know full well; have some knowledge of, possess some knowledge of; be au courant adj.; have in one's head, have at one' fingers ends; know by heart, know by rote; be master of; connaitre le dessous des cartes, know what's what . see one's way; discover 480a. come to one's knowledge (information) . Adj. knowing v.; cognitive; acromatic. aware of, cognizant of, conscious of; acquainted with, made acquainted with; privy to, no stranger to; au -fait, au courant; in the secret; up to, alive to; behind the scenes, behind the curtain; let into; apprized of, informed of; undeceived. proficient with, versed with, read with, forward with, strong with, at home in; conversant with, familiar with. erudite, instructed, leaned, lettered, educated; well conned, well informed, well read, well grounded, well educated; enlightened, shrewd, savant, blue, bookish, scholastic, solid, profound, deep-read, book- learned; accomplished (skillful) ; omniscient; self-taught. known v.; ascertained, well-known, recognized, received, notorious, noted; proverbial; familiar, familiar as household words, familiar to every schoolboy; hackneyed, trite, commonplace. cognoscible, cognizable. Adv. to one's knowledge, to the best of one's knowledge. Phr. one's eyes being opened (disclosure) ; ompredre tout c'est tout pardonner[French: to know all is to pardon all]; empta dolore docet experientia;; "half our knowledge we must snatch not take" [Pope]; Jahre lehren mehr als Bucher[German: years teach more than books]; "knowledge comes but wisdom lingers"[Tennyson]; "knowledge is power" [Bacon]; les affaires font les hommes; nec scire fas est omnia [Horace]; "the amassed thought and experience of innumerable minds" [Emerson]; was ich nicht weiss macht mich nicht heiss.

Blueness. -- N. blue adj.; garter-blue; watchett|. [Pigments] ultramarine, smalt, cobalt, cyanogen; Prussian blue, syenite blue; bice, indigo; zaffer. lapis lazuli, sapphire, turquoise; indicolite. blueness, bluishness; bloom. Adj. blue, azure, cerulean; sky-blue, sky-colored sky-dyed; cerulescent; bluish; atmospheric, retiring; cold.