Visuwords: WordNet goes graphical
WordNet is one of the best English language references available, but its command-line and rather primitive graphical interfaces don't really do it justice. WordNet would greatly benefit from a graphical front-end similar to Visual Thesaurus that allows you to view and explore the connections between different words. Fortunately, there is a tool that does exactly that.
The problem is that words in WordNet are not treated as separate items. Instead, English nouns, verbs, adjectives, and adverbs are organized into synonym sets (synsets), each representing one underlying lexical concept with accompanying definitions and examples. That lets WordNet be used both as a thesaurus and a more or less conventional dictionary. However, what makes WordNet a unique reference tool is that every synset is connected to other synsets via different types of relations. This means that for each word in WordNet, you can retrieve not only its synonyms, but also hypernyms, hyponyms, meronyms, and holonyms.
Using different command line parameters, you can view lexical data in a number of ways. For example, to view all hypernyms of the word "pirate," you can use the command wn pirate -hypen, which returns a result that looks something like this:
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