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Dictionaries
Links to general dictionaries and Roget's Thesaurus,
plus foreign language dictionaries, too!
Samuel Johnson's Dictionary, 1757
General Dictionaries
The American·British
British·American Dictionary
http://www.peak.org/~jeremy/dictionary/
This searchable dictionary includes a comprehensive introduction
with details on differences in spelling, pronunciation, and usageo
American and British English.
The American Heritage®
Dictionary of the English Language Fourth Edition
http://www.bartleby.com/61/
"Over 90,000 entries feature 10,000 new words and senses, 70,000
audio word pronunciations, 900 full-page color illustrations, language
notes and word-root appendixes" Includes articles on regional
patterns of American English as well as etymology and change in
useage.
Cambridge Dictionaries
Online
http://dictionary.cambridge.org/
Searchable database of the the Cambridge Dictionary of American
English (1999); Cambridge International Dictionary of English (2000);
Cambridge International Dictionary of Phrasal Verbs (1997); Cambridge
Learner's Dictionary (2001); or Cambridge International Dictionary
of Idioms (1998). From the Cambridge University Press. Site also
provides on line study activities.
Dictionary of Slang
http://www.peevish.co.uk/slang/
British based dictionary of slang provides a variety of resource
tools for researching the colorful use of slang.
Dictionary of Weights
and Measures
http://www.unc.edu/~rowlett/units/
"How Many? includes all the units of the International System
of Weights and Measures (SIPM); metric; non-metric scientific units
such as the astronomical unit, the electron volt, and the parsec;
the English Customary Weights and Measures; selected traditional
units from cultures other than English; and other measurement terms
and notations"
The Glossarist
http://www.glossarist.com/
Constantly updated directory of glossaries organized by subject
category. Exhaustive.
Merriam Webster's Online
- 1993. 10th Collegiate Edition.
http://www.merriam-webster.com/
More than 160,000 entries comprise this online dictionary. Each
word is accompanied by definition, pronunciation, usage, grammatical
function, and a brief etymology. A thesaurus is also provided. Search
system supports internal wildcards and right hand truncation searching.
Includes an extensive pronunciation guide and sound files for the
pronunciation of many te
Your Dictionary
http://www.yourdictionary.com/
Easy to navigate and very large, this directory of dictionaries
provides more than 1500 dictionaries in over 230 different languages.
Webster's
Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913 )
http://humanities.uchicago.edu/forms_unrest/webster.form.html
Created at the University of Chicago as part of the Artfel project,
this searchable site provides over 100,000 definitions.
World Wide Words: Exploring
the English Language
http://www.worldwidewords.org/
This site helps users investigate the uses of English and American
slang. Short, and sometime extensive, answers to questions about
words and phrases, such as fuddy-duddy and balderdash.
Foreign Language
Dictionaries
Dictionnaire
de l'Académie française Base Échantillon, 1694-1935
http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~wulfric/academie/
Contains a sampling of articles taken from the eight complete editions
of the Dictionnaire. This index project is part of the Dictionnaire
de l'Académie Français Database Project.
Directory of Bilingual and Multilingual
Dictionaries
http://www.lexicool.com/
A searchable directory of "over 1000 translation dictionaries
and glossaries
French
Dictionaries - Links to French language
http://www.yourdictionary.com/languages/romance.html#french
French language resources and dictionaries.
Japanese-English/English-Japanese
Dictionary
http://linear.mv.com/cgi-bin/j-e/dict/
Look up words, names, legal terms, or life science terms in
this on-line Japanese-English dictionary. Click on resulting definitions
for your word in Japanese characters!
LOGOS Dictionary
http://www.logos.it/dictionary/owa/sp?lg=EN
This freely-accessible multilingual dictionary currently has 7.580.560
entries (total for all languages). Searches on words or phrases.
(Search translations for a word or phrase into numerous languages.
This site also has a sound file so that you can hear the words.
Spanish-English Dictionary
http://www.spanishdict.com/
An easy to use online dictionary.
WordReference.com
http://wordreference.com/
This site lets you translate any word from Spanish, German, French,
or Italian in any Web page, using the Collins translating dictionaries
from HarperCollins Publishing
Other
Ambrose Bierce's
Devil's Dictionary
http://www.alcyone.com/max/lit/devils/
The witty, cynical and sometimes irreverent literary classic of
the early 20th century. The definitions presented never loose their
bright and sharp patina.
Plant Dictionary and Resources
http://webgarden.osu.edu/
Created by the Department of Horticulture and Crop Science at Ohio
State University. This searchable database of over 20,000 includes
a Plant Dictionary, with links to images and descriptions, and links
to other Internet gardening resources.
Thesaurus
ROGET'S
Thesaurus Search Form
http://humanities.uchicago.edu/forms_unrest/ROGET.html
Roget's Thesaurus, 1911, version 1.02 (supplemented: July 1991).
This is site is searchable by full text or headword.
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