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NinjaWords
http://ninjawords.com/ NinjaWords .... A really fast dictionary... fast like a ninja. |
 
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Visual Dictionary Online
http://visual.merriam-webster.com/ Visual Dictionary Online The Visual Dictionary Online is an interactive dictionary with an innovative approach. From the image to the word and its definition, the Visual Dictionary Online is an all-in-one reference. Search the themes to quickly locate words, or find the meaning of a word by viewing the image it represents. What’s more, the Visual Dictionary Online helps you learn English in a visual and accessible way. The Visual Dictionary Online is ideal for teachers, parents, translators and students of all skill levels. Explore the Visual Dictionary Online and enrich your mind. Perfect for home, school or work. Discover a visual world of information! |
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Lingro
http://lingro.com/ Lingro - turns any webpage into an interactive language learning tool Lingro takes any webpage and then allows you to click on any word in that page to get its translation back into English, Spanish, French, Polish, German or Italian. |
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World Record Search
http://www.worldrecordsearch.com Worldrecordsearch.com is a regularly updated search engine for world records. |
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Erin McKean: Redefining the dictionary (online video)
http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/view/id/161 Erin McKean: Redefining the dictionary Dictionary editor Erin McKean has an infectious passion for words. At the helm of the Oxford American Dictionary, she's helping to reshape not just the traditional reference library, but our very language. Paper dictionaries, she says, have kept our stock of words trimmed down to the size of, well, a dictionary. But with electronic, interconnected reference works, our supply of words has become limitless -- a prospect that clearly thrills McKean. |
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Visuwords ... visual dictionary
http://www.visuwords.com/ Visuwords online graphical dictionary — Look up words to find their meanings and associations with other words and concepts. Produce diagrams reminiscent of a neural net. Learn how words associate. Enter words into the search box to look them up or double-click a node to expand the tree. Click and drag the background to pan around and use the mouse wheel to zoom. Hover over nodes to see the definition and click and drag individual nodes to move them around to help clarify connections. |
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Ninjawords
http://www.ninjawords.com/ Ninjawords : A really fast dictionary... fast like a ninja. web 2.0 |
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English-language Wiktionary,
http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Main_Page Welcome to the English-language Wiktionary, a collaborative project to produce a free, multilingual dictionary with definitions, etymologies, pronunciations, sample quotations, synonyms, antonyms and translations. Wiktionary is the lexical companion to the open-content encyclopedia Wikipedia. In this English edition, started on December 12, 2002, we currently have 311,736 entries in 389 languages. Learn how to start a page, how to edit entries, experiment in the sandbox and visit our Community Portal to see how you can participate in the development of Wiktionary. The content of Wiktionary is covered by the GNU Free Documentation License; see Wiktionary copyrights for details. |
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The FreeDictionary
http://www.thefreedictionary.com/ TheFreeDictionary TheFreeDictionary.com now allows you to create your own personal homepage by adding and removing, dragging and dropping, and "using or losing" existing content windows. In addition, you can add your own bookmarks, weather information, stock market tracker, and RSS feeds from anywhere on the web. web 2.0 |
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English Chinese Dictionary
http://www.chinese-tools.com/tools/dictionary.html English Chinese Dictionary 70 000 entries, user friendly (one search box for chinese, pinyin or English), proverbs and place names. |
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Chinese-English dictionary
http://www.clearchinese.com/chinese-english-dictionary.htm Chinese-English dictionary An easy-to-use dictionary with over 34,000 entries. The dictionary can be searched by Chinese characters, Pinyin, or English. Audio Chinese pronunciation is available. |
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Urban Dictionary
http://www.urbandictionary.com/ Urban Dictionary is a slang dictionary with your definitions. Define your world. |
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Chinese Dictionary Tools and Resources
http://www.pzlabs.com/better/ Chinese Dictionary Tools and Resources | Xiaoma Cidian | AdsoTrans | Pleco (pronounced "PLEE-KOH") | KingSoft Chinese-English Dictionary | Yahoo! Dictionary (Taiwan) | Kaide's English-Chinese Dictionary | English-Chinese Medical Dictionary | Japanese and Chinese Pop-up Hints! | MDBG Chinese-English Dictionary | HanDict and HanConv | Zhongwen | CCDICT at China Language | Chinese-English Dictionary (Carnegie Mellon) | English-Chinese Online Dictionary (TigerNT, Beijing) | English-Chinese Dictionary (ok88.com) | English-Chinese Dictionary (lexiconer.com) | English-Chinese Dictionary (chinapage.com) | English-Chinese Dictionary (sunrain.net) | English-Chinese Dictionary for Palm OS (absoluteword.com) | Japanese-English-Chinese Dictionary (language-museum.com) | Lin Yutang's Chinese-English Dictionary of Modern Usage (Chinese Univerisity of Hong Kong) | Ocrat Chinese Pages: Animated Chinese Characters (under construction now) | On-line Chinese Tools (MandarinTools.com) | Sino-Tibetan Languages (yourdictionary.com) | Yinghan English-Chinese Dictionary For Palm OS (palmGear.com) | |
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AbbreviationZ
http://www.stands4.com/index.asp AbbreviationZ is the world's largest and most comprehensive directory and search engine for acronyms, abbreviations and initialisms on the Internet. AbbreviationZ holds hundreds of thousands entries organized by a large variety of categories |
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InfoVisual : Visual dictionary
http://www.infovisual.info/index.html InfoVisual : Visual dictionary To learn by way of image with thematic, clear and precise pages, with concise and rigorous texts, bilingual, the InfoVisual will become a very good academic resource. The InfoVisual is different from an encyclopedia or from a traditional online dictionary because the images replace the words. A teaching website of reference which will be able to find an essential place as a good link on your site. Human Body | Music | Transport | Animal biology | Vegetable biology | |
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Encyclopedia of fruits
http://www.thefruitbook.com Encycopedia of fruits |
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AgsPro Dictionary
http://www.agspro.com AgsPro Dictionary Create your own dictionary, add , edit , search by Agspro Dictionary. Look up definitions and example sentences, or just check your spelling on the AgsPro Dictionary. It's clear, easy to use and it's the first of it's kind. |
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Online Dictionary of Computing
http://foldoc.doc.ic.ac.uk/foldoc/ Free Online Dictionary of Computing |
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Dictionarium
http://www.dictionarium.com Dictionarium A directory of online dictionaries and shopping for printed dictionaries |
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The Internet Picture Dictionary
http://www.pdictionary.com/ The Internet Picture Dictionary The Internet Picture Dictionary is a completely free, online multilingual picture dictionary designed especially for ESL students and beginning English, French, German, Spanish and Italian language learners of all ages. |
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Answers (was Gurunet)
http://www.answers.com/ Answers.com is a free, ad-supported, reference search service, created to provide you with instant answers on over a million topics. As opposed to standard search engines that serve up a list of links for you to follow, Answers.com displays quick, snapshot answers with concise, reliable information. Our editors take our content from over 100 authoritative encyclopedias, dictionaries, glossaries and atlases, carefully chosen for breadth and quality. For ultimate convenience, install 1-Click AnswersTM software, and click on any word in any document on your screen for "Answers at your Fingertips". |
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OneLook : Dictionary Search
http://www.onelook.com/ OneLook : Dictionary Search Think of this web site as a search engine for words and phrases: If you have a word for which you'd like a definition or translation, we'll quickly shuttle you to the web-based dictionaries that define or translate that word. If you don't know how to spell the word, we'll help you do that too. No word is too obscure: More than 5 million words in more than 900 online dictionaries are indexed by the OneLook search engine. Internet Explorer users on Windows, click here to install a "right click" menu option that lets you define any word on any web page. |
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Grolier Online
http://www.go.grolier.com Grolier Online offers a complete source of reference material for your needs. From extensive hyperlinking, article updates, bibliographies and kid-safe web links, Grolier Online is an excellent companion for students and teachers. Containing more articles than other competitive online encyclopedias, Grolier Online, has written and structured their products to cater for specific student grade levels. The New Book of Knowledge Online has been designed for Grades 3 and above while the Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia is aimed at Grades 5 and above. All libraries provide an excellent learning tool for students. Overall, Grolier Online provides over 100,000 articles, 19,000 photos, 1,500 tables, 3,100 maps, 275,000 internal links and over 80,000 external links. Available in different languages including Chinese. |
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Britannica Online Traditional Chinese Edition
http://wordpedia.britannica.com/ First International Encyclopaedia Online in Traditional Chinese The Britannica Online Traditional Chinese Edition combines Encyclopaedia Britannica's wealth of information and editioral expertise with detailed content on Chinese culture, history, and traditions. The flexible search engine offers searches in Chinese and English, powerful natural language searching, subject areas searches, browsing and more. With its vast editioral and multimedia content, Britannica Online Traditional Chinese Edition is an ideal resources for schools, universities, students and researchers. - Approximately 70,000 comprehensive articles that can be searched in CHinese or English. - 11,400 photos, tables, line arts, and maps. - Interactive world atlas with maps and articles on for more than 215 countries of the world. - 200 audio clips, videos and animations. Britannica Online Traditional Chinese Edition http://www.chineseupress.com/ |
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OneLook Dictionary Search
http://www.onelook.com OneLook Dictionary Search Think of this web site as a search engine for words and phrases: If you have a word for which you'd like a definition or translation, we'll quickly shuttle you to the web-based dictionaries that define or translate that word. If you don't know how to spell the word, we'll help you do that too. No word is too obscure: More than 5 million words in more than 900 online dictionaries are indexed by the OneLook search engine. |
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Google to find dictionary definitions
http://www.google.com/help/features.html#dictionary To use Google to find dictionary definitions, enter your query into the search box as you would normally. Any or all parts of your query for which we have a dictionary definition will be underlined in the center text above our search results. Clicking on the link will take you to the relevant definition from a dictionary provider, which has been selected solely on the basis of its quality. |
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Wikipedia - Open Content Encyclopedia
http://www.wikipedia.org/ Wikipedia is a multilingual project to create a complete and accurate open content encyclopedia. We started on January 15, 2001 and are already working on 103218 articles in the English version. Visit the help page and experiment in the sandbox to learn how you can edit any article right now. encyclopedia | Dansk | Deutsch | Esperanto | Espa?l | Fran?is | Italiano | Nederlands | Polski | Portugu? | Svenska |
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WordWeb Pro
http://wordweb.info/ WordWeb Pro - Thesaurus/dictionary, word and anagram finder WordWeb Pro is a quick and powerful English thesaurus and dictionary for Windows. It can be used to lookup words from almost any Windows program, showing definitions, synonyms and related words. You can search for words matching a pattern, find and solve anagrams, and optionally search a large number of extra word lists. Unlike any paper dictionary or thesaurus WordWeb is truly a Word Web - each set of synonyms is linked to other related sets. Lookup "tree", click on the "Types" tab and you'll have a list of different types of tree. Click on "Part of" and WordWeb will tell you that a tree can be part of a "forest" or "wood". There is an evaluation copy available to download ... and also a free 'cut-down' version. |
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Acronym Finder
http://www.acronymfinder.com Acronym Finder The web's most comprehensive database of acronyms, abbreviations, and initialisms. 253,000+ definitions! acronym | acronyms | |
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Cantufind - list of dictionaries ... recommended
http://www.cantufind.com/dictionaries-by-subject.htm Great list of dictionaries .... if we didn't have a list here then this would be one of the favourites to go to. dictionaries | dictionary | Architecture | Art | Biology | Botany | Business | Chemistry | Computing | Education | Energy | Engineering | Environment | Finance | Fun-stuff | Health | History | Horses | Insurance | Languages | Law | Literature | Mathematics | Media | Medicine | Meteorology | Military | Pharmacology | Politics | Religion | Science | Slang | Space | Sports | Technical | Telecommunications | |
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Voycabulary
http://www.voycabulary.com/ VoyCabulary is a powerful web tool which will make words on web pages, or those you type in, into links so you can click on any word to look it up. We provide many different online dictionaries, thesauruses, and word translators. This provides a convenient and speedy way to lookup words without disrupting your normal web browsing. VoyCabulary leaves the words in their original language, but it makes them each clickable so you can look them up. We've found this is useful for a variety of purposes. - Speakers of Foreign Languages: If you know how to read another language, but find yourself wanting to look up the words in your native tongue, run the webpage through VoyCabulary and you can save yourself time, energy, and frustration! - Reading Specialized Topics: If you're reading some literature with words you don't know, like when doing Medical research or reading some Legal documents, you may wish to look up words in a specialized dictionary. We provide various dictionaries, and even a special site dedicated to English at English.Voycabulary.com. online | dictionary | dictionaries | literacy | |
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English-Chinese Dictionary
http://www.ok88.com/go/svc/ecdict.html Online English - Chinese Dictionary also .. Click here to learn Chinese Sayings online ..... Learn Chinese the fun way by taking the Chinese Quiz online |
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1911 edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica
http://1911encyclopedia.org/ The best encyclopedia ever written was published nearly 90 years ago! And now you can find right here on the web! This 1911 edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica is filled with historical information that is still relevant today. It fills 29 volumes and contains over 44 million words. The articles are written by more than 1500 authors within their various fields of expertise. As a research tool, this 1911 encyclopedia edition is unparalleled-- even today. 1911 | Encyclopedia Britannica | full version | free online | |
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American Dialect Society
http://www.americandialect.org/ Founded more than a century ago, the American Dialect Society is dedicated to the study of the English language in North America, and of other languages, or dialects of other languages, influencing it or influenced by it. |
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The World Almanac for Kids Online
http://www.worldalmanacforkids.com Millions of kids read The World Almanac For Kids every year. Now the bestselling book has a companion Web Site -- The World Almanac For Kids Online. So dive in and explore. You can find tons of cool stuff throughout The World Almanac for Kids Online. Believe it or not, we've been putting this information together since 1868! Animals | Environment | Historical Birthdays | Nations | Population | Presidents of the United States | Religion | Space | Sports | U.S. History Timeline | |
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Encarta Encyclopedia
http://encarta.msn.com/reference/ Encarta offers 17,000 articles from their CD-ROM encyclopedia, hundreds of related multimedia clips, a talking dictionary, a world atlas, and Schoolhouse (a resource for educators.) |
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Encyclopedia.com
http://www.encyclopedia.com/ Encyclopedia.com was created by Infonautics Corporation to provide Internet users with a simple, one-stop research site. Composed of high-quality articles from the Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, the site links more than 50,000 diverse articles to the resources available on Infonautics' popular online research service. |
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Wordsmyth
http://www.wordsmyth.net/ Wordsmyth is an innovative and evolving language reference source that meshes the functions of a dictionary and a thesaurus with powerful and flexible search capabilities. Both the Wordsmyth Educational Dictionary-Thesaurus and the Wordsmyth web site reflect the philosophy that word meanings are not simply equations that one can get right or get wrong, but rather grow out of and depend on specific uses and contexts. |
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WordWeb Pro
http://www.wordweb.co.uk WordWeb Pro is a quick and powerful English thesaurus and dictionary. Unlike any paper dictionary or thesaurus WordWeb is truly a Word Web - each set of synonyms is linked to other related sets. Lookup "tree", click on the "Types" tab and you'll have a list of different types of tree. Click on "Part of" and WordWeb will tell you that a tree can be part of a "forest" or "wood". WordWeb Pro also has a powerful engine for finding words matching a pattern - great for crosswords or finding that word you can't quite remember. The anagram feature will generate fun multi-word anagrams for you, and you can also find partial anagrams. |
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Acronym Finder
http://www.acronymfinder.com/ The Acronym Finder is a world wide web (WWW) searchable database of more than 188,000 abbreviations and acronyms about computers, technology, telecommunications, and military acronyms and abbreviations. |
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Problem of Updating Encyclopedias
http://plato.stanford.edu/solution/solution.html A Solution to the Problem of Updating Encyclopedias. This paper describes a way of creating and maintaining a `dynamic encyclopedia', i.e., an encyclopedia whose entries can be improved and updated on a continual basis without requiring the production of an entire new edition. |
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Jargon File Resources
http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/jargon/ This page indexes all the WWW resources associated with the Jargon File and its print version, The New Hacker's Dictionary of computer jargon. It's as official as anything associated with the Jargon File gets. |
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Foldoc
http://wombat.doc.ic.ac.uk/foldoc/index.html Free Online Dictionary of Computing and IT Includes over 7900 entries defining computer terms. |
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IT Encyclopedia
http://www.techweb.com/encyclopedia/home More than 20,000 IT /ICT terms explained. |
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Merck Manual of Medical Information
http://www.merck.com/pubs/mmanual_home/mmhome.html The full-text, searchable consumer edition of the famous Merck Manual of Diagnosis and Therapy ("the textbook of medicine most widely used by health care professionals in the U.S. and worldwide"), written in everyday la nguage for non-health care professionals. |
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Oxford English Dictionary
http://www.oed.com/ Welcome to the Oxford English Dictionary's web site. Here you will find a wealth of information about ‘the greatest work in dictionary making ever undertaken’ (New York Times). For more than a century, the Oxford English Dictionary has been the undisputed authority on the history and development of the English language. With more than 2.5 million quotations illustrating how words are used, the OED is a unique source of information on the evolution of words and meanings, from the earliest times t o the present day. |
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Nupedia.com
http://www.nupedia.com/ Suppose scholars the world over learned of a serious online encyclopedia effort in which the results were not proprietary to the encyclopedists, but were freely distributable under an open content license in virtually any desired medium. How quickly woul d the encyclopedia grow? We at Nupedia want to find out. We have the time, money, personnel, and commitment. |
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Merriam-Webster OnLine Dictionary
http://www.m-w.com/ Cool New Stuff Dictionary Button / Search Boxes / Newest Titles / Press Releases Word of the Day Calendar Archive / Searchable Archive / Word of the Day mailing list Daily Word Game Puzzle Archive / Hints and Tips Word for the Wise Latest Transcr ipts / Download Transcripts Products Dictionaries / Electronic Products / Word Game References Network/Licensing Your Own Intranet Dictionary / Ask about linking to our site Product Excerpts Guide to International Business Communications / The B arnhart Dictionary Companion Company Information Company FAQ / How a Word Gets in the Dictionary / Brief Look at the History of English Lighter Side of Language Flappers 2 Rappers / What's in a Name / Coined by Shakespeare Customer Service Technical Support / Product FAQs / Merriam-Webster Retailer List |
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The European Schoolnet Encyclopaedia
http://www.en.eun.org/encyclopaedia/about/about.html This unique Internet project invites all European schools to contribute by providing definitions of Words which they own or collaborate on in partnership with other learners. Students and teachers can publish their Words on the European Schoolnet Encyclopaedia website by following a simple step-by-step guide. |
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Welcome to Britannica.com
http://www.britannica.com/ The Encyclopaedia Britannica made the entire contents of its 32 volumes available for free on the internet in October 1999. Web users around the world will be able to browse through 44 million words, kept up to date by 7,000 researchers around the world. Since the first edition in 1768, the encyclopaedia has expanded to 33,000 pages and costs £800. The site will also carry news services, magazine articles and collect information and links to other parts of the internet. |
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