![]() ![]() 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. But in everyday use, there’s no reason not to use either one of them.The way Reverse Dictionary works is pretty simple. In formal writing, sneaked might be the term you should use. This will happen when you have to follow a style guide. What to do, then? Sometimes, you’ll be required to use one of them and not the other-usually it will be the regular one. But if you look it up in dictionaries, you will notice that it’s marked as a colloquialism, a non-standard or informal word, more often than not. And the word is generally accepted everywhere apart from the UK, which has remained on the fence. Technically, there’s no authority that can abolish snuck from your vocabulary. The question is whether or not you should use it. So the real question isn’t whether the word snuck is a real word or not. ![]() It is paired with a meaning, so when you say it, you’re saying something that makes sense. It has everything that’s needed for a word to be a word-it is a phonetic structure, so you can actually say it. No one can argue that snuck is not a real word. After all, it’s one thing for someone to assert that you’re incorrect, but to say that you shouldn’t exist at all-that’s much worse. If words could have self-confidence issues, snuck would be in a fetal position, crying its eyes out. It surely doesn’t help that there are people out there who are very vocal in their disagreement with the very existence of snuck. So you could have “snuck into class” after being late just as easy as you could have “sneaked in.” Or, you could have “sneaked a peek” of a pre-show sound-check of your favorite band, but you also could have “ snuck a peek ” (some might say that you sneaked or snuck a peak or a pique, but they are wrong).Īs you can imagine, this situation can be a little confusing. In that case, its past tense is created by adding and removing some of its letters to produce snuck. That means we form the past tense by adding the regular old -ed suffix to it.īut some speakers have begun to treat “sneak” as an irregular verb. So what is the past tense form you should use when you talk about kids who used to sneak out? It’s sneaked, because “sneak” is a regular verb. Video chat has cut down on the need for sneaking out after dinner. And there are many reasons to sneak, some terrible (deception, theft, murder), some wonderful (surprise birthday parties), and some extremely important (going out to see a special someone when you should be upstairs studying). Staying low and having a good sense of timing might also be crucial to the success of a sneaky endeavor. You know what sneak means, right? To move around while avoiding being seen or heard. ![]() Grammarly helps you communicate confidently Write with Grammarly ![]()
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