Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun An applet by which word clouds can be created on a computer.
- noun A word cloud made by means of this applet.
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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How about a mug with all of the best tags and/or Lexicon entries, in Wordle format?
Balloon Juice » Blog Archive » Thursday Night Open Thread 2010
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Wordle is a toy and a tool that creates word clouds from any text you give it.
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Wordle is a toy and a tool that creates word clouds from any text you give it.
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Wordle is a brilliantly flexible applet for creating text clouds.
hughstimson.org » Blog Archive » Wordle: Tshirt Your Thesis 2008
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Wordle is a toy for generating “word clouds” from text that you provide.
Archive 2008-07-01 The Nag 2008
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Wordle is a web tool that takes a bunch of text and converts it in to something akin to a tag cloud, with word size based on the frequency they occur.
My MA thesis Wordled... Jonathan 2008
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Bianca Castafiore yes, THAT Bianca, you Tintin lovers! has introduced me to Wordle, which is a lovely toy that creates "word clouds," you know.
Archive 2009-01-01 Fresca 2009
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Guess the Wordle could be a fun warm-up activity to use with students.
Archive 2009-07-12 Mr. Byrne 2009
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A website called Wordle produces beautiful word clouds from RSS feeds.
Archive 2008-10-01 2008
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I read about a piece of online software called Wordle on Justine Larbalestier's blog; it takes a piece of text - even a whole book - and turns it into a picture of the most common words based on frequency.
Archive 2008-06-01 2008
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