Dictionaries, Thesauri, Acronyms and Almanacs
English Language Dictionaries
- Merriam-Webster's Dictionary
- Merriam-Webster Online hosts the
Merriam-Webster's Dictionary online. The dictionary is accessible through a search
engine, returning definitions for the input word.
- The Oxford English Dictionary
- The Oxford English Dictionary (OED) is a unique reference work. It
is visibly unique because of its size, and linguistically unique because
of its comprehensiveness and its inclusion of chronologically arranged
quotations illustrating changes in the meaning of words. Available to Purdue
staff and students.
- Search Webster's
Dictionary
- This hypertext Webster interface provides a point-and-click client
interface for accessing the various Webster's dictionary services on the
Internet. Words in the resulting definition are hypertext linked back into
the dictionary, allowing you to use your mouse to access the definition
of those related (and unrelated) words. From Carnegie-Mellon University.
- College
Slang Dictionary
- The official USENET dictionary of college slang. (from Spies.com)
International Dictionaries
- The LOGOS Dictionary
- Translates user-input words and phrases to numerous languages. For
the multimedia-enabled, some phrases have .wav samples! From Italy. (Be
ready for slow link)
- Estonian-English Dictionary
- From the Institute of Baltic Studies.
- Euro-Dictionary
- From the University of Frankfurt in Germany.
- Finnish-English Dictionary
- From Finland.
- French-English
Dictionary
- Look up words in a simple French English Dictionary containing about
75,000 terms.
- German-English Dictionary
- From LEO (Link Everything Online).
- Jeffrey's Japanese-English
Dictionary
- A Japanese-English dictionary which can display Japanese text as GIFs,
JIS encoding, Shift-JIS encoding, and EUC encoding.
- Russian-English Dictionary
- A very basic dictionary, with pictures and sound files of pronunciations by a native speaker.
- Spanish-English Dictionary
- A general Spanish English wordlist created by Activa Translation Service.
Technical English Dictionaries
- Anthromorphemics:
Anthropology Glossary
- Anthromorphemics is a new addition to the excellent anthropology site
at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Users can browse or search
the entire glossary or list terms by one of three fields: Archaeology,
Cultural Anthropology, or Physical Anthropology.
- BioTech
Life Science Dictionary
- It's a free, completely searchable dictionary of over 3700 terms relating
to the life sciences and medicine, and we're adding new terms all the time.
The vast majority of our words aren't the kind of thing you'll find in
Webster's.
- Dictionary of Units
- A summary of the units of measurement in use around the world today. Definitions,
standards and conversion factors.
- Glossary
of nomenclatural terms in zoology
- This glossary is based on a text intended to aid indexers in the production
of nomenclatural entries for the Zoological Record.
- Glossary of Nuclear Terms
- Provided by the Uranium Institute, an international, non-governmental
organization whose 77 members come from all levels of the nuclear power industry.
- Glossary of Oceanography and the Related Geosciences
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- Search the Free On-Line Dictionary
of Computing
- FOLDOC is a searchable dictionary of acronyms, jargon, programming
languages, tools, architecture, operating systems, networking, theory,
conventions, standards, mathematics, telecomms, electronics, institutions,
companies, projects, products, history, in fact anything to do with computing.
- Search the Hacker's Dictionary/Jargon
File
- From Austria.
- Visionary
- A Dictionary of terminology in vision research
- Boston University's Department of Cognitive and Neural Systems hosts
this browsable online dictionary of over 350 terms related to human and
animal vision. From Absorption Spectrum to Zollner Illusion, the dictionary
includes terms from "biological and machine vision, visual psychophysics,
visual neuroscience, and other related fields."
Acronym Dictionaries
- Acronym Finder
- The Acronym Finder web site is a database of more than 47,000 acronyms
and their meanings. The index contains acronyms concerning general topics,
computers, technology, government, and telecommunications. The database also includes
military acronyms for the Department of Defense, Air Force, Army, Navy, and
Coast Guard.
- Search Acronym
Dictionary
- A constantly updated acronym dictionary. Users can add new acronyms.
- Acronyms and
Abbreviations &
Abbreviations
of Chemical Compounds
- Both databases use acronyms or abbreviations as keywords, and return
full names. From the Freie Universitat
Berlin.
Thesauri
- Search an
updated 1911 Roget's Thesaurus
- A simple gopher index search for a Thesaurus. From the National Institute
of Health.
- Browse the NASA
Thesaurus
- A comprehensive listing of NASA terms complete with definitions and
related words. From NASA.
Almanacs
- Information Please
- Information Please is the ultimate fact
finder on the World Wide Web where you can simultaneously search the vast
resources of the world-renowned Information Please Almanacs, along with
complete, most authoritative encyclopedia and dictionary content. The
Information Please Almanacs have a reputation for accuracy, proven in print
for more than fifty years.
Miscellaneous
- Bartlett's
Book of Familiar Quotations
- A searchable, cross-indexed, listing of many familiar quotations, each
traced to the original author.
- Elements
of Style
- This book is intended for use in English courses in which the practice
of composition is combined with the study of literature. It aims to give
in brief space the principal requirements of plain English style. 1st Edition,
1918.
- Human Languages Page
- A page devoted to bringing together information about the languages
of the world. The language resources listed here come from all around the
world, and range from dictionaries to language tutorials to spoken samples
of languages. Many languages are represented here, but many more are missing.
- A Web of Online Dictionaries
- Word lists, dictionaries and thesauri for over 130 languages. Created and maintained by Robert Beard, director of the Russian and Linguistics at Bucknell University. (Note: This is a very comprehensive resource list; it contains links to more than just English translation aids.
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