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Page 1 of 1 1 Topic Options #176772 - 05/09/08 11:14 AM micturate dalehileman dalehileman veteran Registered: 07/10/05 Posts: 1364 Loc: Apple Valley, CA, USA Fal in a nearby thread uses the term and so I had to look it up: http://onelook.com/?w=micturate+&ls=a Thus Type-1 = pee, -2, = urinate, -3 = micturate But my question is this: If you use OneLook as often as I, which of the many sources available there do you find most complete and authoritative _________________________ dalehileman Top #176774 - 05/09/08 11:25 AM Re: micturate [Re: dalehileman] tsuwm tsuwm Carpal Tunnel Registered: 04/03/00 Posts: 8573 Loc: this too shall pass 1. Merriam-Webster (esp. for meaning) 2. American Heritage [AHD4] (esp. for derivation) . . . z. wiktionary -joe (YMMV) friday Top #176776 - 05/09/08 03:46 PM Re: micturate [Re: tsuwm] AnnaStrophic AnnaStrophic Carpal Tunnel Registered: 03/15/00 Posts: 6379 Loc: lower upstate New York I'm with tsuwm. M-W and AHD4 take care of most things for me. Occasionally I'll go to one of the more esoteric dictionaries if I'm looking up a word in a, well, esoteric context. Top Page 1 of 1 1 Previous Topic   Index   Next Topic   Preview Hop to: General Topics ------   Information and announcements   Q&A about words   Wordplay and fun   Words and languages in schools   Miscellany   Weekly Themes   Looking for (writers, speakers, ...) (Old) Weekly themes. (have been consolidated into a single forum above) ------   Words from medicine   Beheading words   Meta-words   Words from classical mythology   Animal Safari   Words with unusual etymologies   Eponyms or words derived from people's names.   Loanwords from German   English as a global language Print Topic Switch to Threaded Mode dalehileman View profile Send a PM Add to your Watched Users View posts tsuwm View profile Send a PM View homepage Add to your Watched Users View posts AnnaStrophic View profile Send a PM Add to your Watched Users View posts Forum Stats 6471 Members 16 Forums 12017 Topics 176676 Posts Max Online: 853 @ 10/23/07 11:39 AM Who's Online 2 registered (BranShea, 1 invisible) and 123 anonymous users online. details Newest Members pardeep, rahi, Charlie R, SBK, ipilipil 6470 Registered Users Top Posters 13858 wwh 11418 Faldage 9598 Jackie 8573 tsuwm 6379 AnnaStrophic 6296 Wordwind 6045 etaoin 5362 of troy 4683 maverick 4186 WhitmanO'Neill May Su M Tu W Th F Sa 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31

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