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In the spirit of HN's creed to encourage curiosity, I want take this opportunity to make my fellow hackers' lives easier and teach you skills for looking up inf
by bmn__ 5y ago
In the spirit of HN's creed to encourage curiosity, I want take this opportunity to make my fellow hackers' lives easier and teach you skills for looking up information. Giving up after a Google search indicates you likely have a deficit.
You can use a dictionary or encyclopedia for word definitions. I like the Oxford for its quality, and Wikipedia for its breadth.
• https://lexico.com/definition/marten https://lexico.com/definition/marten
• https://enwp.org/marten https://enwp.org/marten
User-friendly browsers like Opera 12 and Firefox have features to turn a form or search result into a reusable template that can be triggered with a shortcut from the address bar. I habitually make use of this for looking up definitions.
If you care to take the acquisition of skills to the 95th percentile and beyond, measured against the general population, then the material at Fravia's Searchlores (deliberately not linked) will do that.
- Someone 5y agoIn this case, you can also guess it’s an animal and search for “martens animal” Guessing that “martens” is the plural of “marten” also works fine. I think many would find that easier.