How can you learn a word without knowing the words within its definition?

Re:How can you learn a word without knowing the words within... by wingerlang on Tuesday June 20, 2017 @03:21AM (#14592744)

I had the same issue as the other commenter. I also didn't quite understand the "word (1/15)" as it looked like there were around 15 words in the definition to begin with. Maybe you should just show all of them, vertically, until the user selects a new one.

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Re:How can you learn a word without knowing the words within... by dictionaryfeed on Tuesday June 20, 2017 @10:40AM (#14594979)

Thank you very much for the follow-up reply in regards to this! The worst definition that I've found is if you search the word "hello".

However, I actually like the first definition of the word "word" quite a bit. This demonstrates that there are differences from person to person.

Bringing this difference to attention, you're right, it would make sense if there was a button to click to just expand all of the definition at once.

Further, when a user selects one of them, I could record that data and incorporate user's preference of definition into my statistical analysis to provide better definitions and better orderings.

I really appreciate your feedback and if you would ever like to discuss further, please let me know! :)

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