It has arrived in the mail. Your book-reading boss's “inspirational” lines with that quote in the end that you dread. Boss expects you to discuss it with him in the production meeting. This time it's Walter Winchell's “Nothing recedes like success.” What? Is that a mistake? It's not “recedes”, is it? What does the word mean?

Jump to dictionary.com. Punch the word into the box. Look out for the Visual Thesaurus (VT). It's a cool, interactive tool that allows you to see at a glance how your word is connected to its various meanings. In a book dictionary/thesaurus you'll be ploughing through origin, pronunciation, part of speech and usage to arrive at the meaning, and the word may have more than one of that. The visual thesaurus (VT) is a word map. It points to the meaning directly........Read More

Source: The Hindu