Scientists say they have made an atlas of where words' meanings are located ... Contrary to those ideas, he says, language and meaning are distributed. "It's not that there's one brain area ...

Pokemon fan artist reimagines creatures based on names, creating hilarious and unique designs for familiar critters ... on the literal definitions of the words and terms used in some of their ...

Bending and shifting the shapes of the Arabic letters, El Sayed turns ordinary words into pictures of the words they represent. For example, the letters in the word for "cat" ("Qatt" in Arabic ...

The definition of the word was meaningless -- all that mattered, Republicans said in 2009, was "finding something that raises the consciousness of the average voter." If that meant changing the ...

In the hands of accomplished artists, just a single word ... Design across the street – are bold, colorful and mesmerizing in their distinctive graphic designs. In many ways, they express the ...

However, after 50 years, this usage of racism has yet to stop occasioning controversy; witness the outcry when Merriam-Webster recently altered its definition of the word to acknowledge the ...

The meanings of words play an integral part of Netflix’s adaptation of “Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events.” Words that mean more than one thing cause misunderstandings that ...

By mapping the overlapping sets of brain cells that respond to various words, he says, “we can try to start building a thesaurus of meaning”. The work was published today in Nature.

The universal online dictionary Kamusi has just added 1.2 million terms from several databases in its quest to translate all the meanings of every word in all the world's languages. Three African ...