Dear LJ brain trust...

May 21, 2006 12:33

Two questions, one fairly trivial and one meta.

1. Sight : visual :: Sound : aural :: Touch : tactile :: Smell : ?? :: Taste : ???

2. Where should I have looked this up? (A dictionary helps if you have an unknown word; a thesaurus helps if you have an approximate synonym. Googling on the three adjectives I have didn't get me the other

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dglenn May 21 2006, 16:40:34 UTC
Smell::olfactory

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cellio May 21 2006, 16:42:41 UTC
And I should have known that, now that you mention it. Thanks.

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shewhomust May 21 2006, 16:45:18 UTC
And taste, gustatory.

I've no idea how you'd find out; I have done what you tried, googled the members of the set I had - and when that failed, I'd have asked desperance.

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cellio May 21 2006, 16:50:41 UTC
Thanks.

Wow, 12 minutes! :-)

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profane_stencil May 21 2006, 18:54:32 UTC
What other questions can desperance answer?

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shewhomust May 22 2006, 14:33:17 UTC
Many things about cookery. And the behaviour of his cat.

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nickjong May 21 2006, 17:25:56 UTC
Putting the first three adjectives into Google Sets (http://labs.google.com/sets) yields "olfactory." Adding that word yields "gustatory."

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cellio May 21 2006, 17:45:08 UTC
Thanks! I had not previously heard of Google Sets.

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kayre May 21 2006, 17:56:47 UTC
I found both under "senses" on wikipedia.

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cellio May 21 2006, 20:41:00 UTC
Good idea. Thanks.

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