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The definitions are sourced from the famous and open-source WordNet database, so a huge thanks to the many contributors for creating such an awesome free resource. In case you didn't notice, you can click on words in the search results and you'll be presented with the definition of that word (if available). So I would say to any kids or adults who want to talk about spitting in the past tense, It’s not ‘spit’ and it’s not ‘spitted.’. Plus that’s what I learned when I was young. But I think spat sounds more intelligent. I looked it up in the Oxford Canadian, and they say you can use either. For those interested, I also developed Describing Words which helps you find adjectives and interesting descriptors for things (e.g. I don’t know why this bothers me so much, but I cannot stand it when people use spit as the past tense of spit, instead of using spat. synonyms: bicker, bickering, fuss, pettifoggery, squabble, tiff dustup, quarrel, row, run-in, words. So this project, Reverse Dictionary, is meant to go hand-in-hand with Related Words to act as a word-finding and brainstorming toolset. spat Add to list Share a quarrel about petty points. 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. In AmE, kidnapping is preferred spit > spat > spit over kidnaping ( see. So in a sense, this tool is a "search engine for words", or a sentence to word converter. BrE doubles the final consonant after spit ( to expectorate ) is inflected in. In my case it was a case of a bad memory and the mind then choosing one or two forms instead, because it has been a long time since hearing the third form, spit. We agreed that spit in the past tense didn’t ring well. It acts a lot like a thesaurus except that it allows you to search with a definition, rather than a single word. Your conception of the use of spit in the past was spat, whilst mine was either spat or spitted. 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". spit Past Simple: spat/spit Past Partciple: spat/spit Present Partciple: spitting Third Person Singular: spits. If you are using spit as the act of depositing saliva rapidly, then spat is the past tense. It simply looks through tonnes of dictionary definitions and grabs the ones that most closely match your search query.
The way Reverse Dictionary works is pretty simple.
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