The Discovery of an Information Resource

Yesterday, Lavanya came running to share the joy of discovering `Definitions.net' with us. We were surprised at not stumbling upon that site earlier. Did WE really miss it? Or IT missed us? Or is it a damn new site and we were among the early birds? We were excited! We even left a message to them, waiting to receive a reply. Today, there was a message in Ms. Lavanya's mail box!


We understand that it is not a totally new resource, but that it is STANDS4 that has morphed into Abbreviations.com. "Abbreviations.com is a unique reference resource which focuses entirely on definitions and classifications of short hands such as acronyms, abbreviations and initialisms. It is backed up by a large community of volunteering editors and it provides its users with a diverse disciplines directory, a state of the art meta-search engine and free desktop search tools."



We are particularly happy with the elegant design and lay out of the site. I was quickly scrolling down to see the pictures that our word in question has pulled in. I make a visual guess and very often I find images that are quite close to my guess! It is indeed a very handy tool while adding pictures to messages and presentations.


We were very happy to find some good definitions and I was double happy when I didn't find something, as there is a `Get a Free T-Shirt Offer' on becoming an editor!