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American Heritage®
Dictionary of the English Language, 4th ed.
http://www.bartleby.com/61/
This unabridged dictionary from Houghton Mifflin, 2000, and
Bartleby.com, 2000, contains over 350,000 entries. Search
by entry word or full text.
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American National
Standards Telecommunications: Telecom Glossary 2000
http://www.atis.org/tg2k/
From the T1 Committee of the American National Standards Institute,
this dictionary includes definitions and abbreviations for
telecommunications related words and concepts.
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ArtLex Visual Arts Dictionary
http://www.artlex.com/
Compiled and maintained by Michael Delahunt, an elementary
school art teacher, this site currently contains definitions
for over 3,600 terms. Longer articles are given for
movements and styles. Names of artists and paintings
appear only within definitions. They do not have individual
entries. Links to artist and painting names connect
to various museum and gallary sites.
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Babel
Fish Translation
http://babelfish.altavista.com/translate.dyn
Enter words, phrases, sentences, or the URL of a Web page, and Babel Fish
will translate it from English to French, Spanish, Portuguese, Chinese, Italian,
Japanese, Korean, or German. English can be translated into the same
languages. Also translates from German to French and French to German.
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Bartlett, John Russell. 1848. Dictionary
of Americanisms
http://www.merrycoz.org/voices/bartlett/BARTLETT.HTM
Provides a record of the "colloquial language of the
United States" during the first half of the 19th century.
This is the first edition that contains words and phrases
such as "strong drink", "sanctimoniouslyfied",
"absquatulate", "acknowledge the corn",
"finefied", and "red dog money" along
with short essays including definition and usage of each.
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BioTech
Life Science Dictionary
http://biotech.icmb.utexas.edu/search/dict-search.html
From the University of Texas Institute for Cellular and Molecular
Biology, this dictionary's currently over 8,300 terms cover
biochemistry, biotechnology, botany, cell biology and genetics
along with some terms from ecology, limnology, pharmacology,
toxicology and medicine. However, specific animals,
plants, and chemicals or drugs are not included. Instead
users are directed to other sites for information about these
living things or chemical substances.
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Campbell
R. Harvey's Hypertextual Financy Glossary
http://www.duke.edu/~charvey/Classes/wpg/glossary.htm
A glossary of finance terms compiled and defined by Champbell
R. Harvey, J. Paul Sticht Professor of International
Business, Fuqua School of Business, Duke University.
This is one part of his site dealing with international finance.
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Dictionaries
& Translation Sites
http://www.lib.utexas.edu/refsites/dictionaries.html
From the University of Texas at Austin Library Online, this
site provides links to online language and specialized dictionaries
as well as other language sites.
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Dictionary of the History of Ideas
http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/DicHist/dict.html
Full text of the first edition of this work published
by Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, in 1973-74. Browse
alphabetically, by subject, by author, or search the full text. Pius
Library has this edition in print at CB5
.D52 and the 2005 second edition of the New
Dictionary of the History of Ideas at Ref. CB9
.N49 2005. Also, check out the Journal
of the History of Ideas available in print [B1 .J75] or electronically through
Project
Muse and JSTOR.
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Dictionary.com
http://www.dictionary.com/
Consists of a search engine and a directory with additional
choices such as a word-of-the-day, daily crossword and word
search puzzles, and writing resources. Definitions for
words are drawn from many Internet sources such as Free
Online Dictionary of Computing, American Heritage Dictionary,
4th edition, made available by Bartleby.com, Webster's
Revised Unabridged Dictionary, and WordNet from
Princeton University.
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Digital
Photography Review: Glossary
http://www.dpreview.com/learn/Glossary/
Includes terms from camera systems, digital imaging, exposure,
optical, and photographic sections.
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Duhaime's
Law Dictionary
http://www.duhaime.org/diction.htm
Written in plain language and provided free-of-charge by Lloyd
Duhaime, a Canadian lawyer. Browse by letter of the
alphabet.
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Everybody's
Legal Glossary
http://www.nolo.com/glossary.cfm
From Nolo.com, a publisher of legal materials, you may search
for a word or browse alphabetically. Definitions for
words are written in plain English.
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FOLDOC:
Free On-Line Dictionary of Computing
http://foldoc.org/
Type in a term and its definition with internal links appears.
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Foreign
Languages for Travelers
http://travlang.com/languages/search.html
Enter words or phrases that might be used when traveling.
This site will give you some options in many languages.
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The Free
Dictionary.com
http://www.thefreedictionary.com/
By Farlex, this site provides "English, Medical, Legal,
Financial, and Computer Dictionaries, Thesaurus, Acronyms,
Encyclopedia, a Literature Reference Library, and a Search
Engine all in one!" (text from site 5/20/05)
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the GLOSSARIST: A
searchable glossary dictionary
http://www.glossarist.com/
A collection of glossaries and subject dictionaries available on the Web. Search
for a term or browse by category.
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Glossary
of Internet Terms
http://www.matisse.net/files/glossary.html
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High-Tech
Dictionary
http://www.computeruser.com/resources/dictionary/index.html
From ComputerUser.com, this dictionary provides explanations for computer
and Web terms.
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IMF
Terminology: A Multilingual Directory
http://www.imf.org/external/np/term/index.asp
From the International Monetary Fund, this is a translating
dictionary only. It does not include definitions.
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Medical
Dictionary
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/mplusdictionary.html
The dictionary available on the MEDLINEplus
Health Information site is the Merriam-Webster Medical
Dictionary.
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Merriam-Webster
OnLine: The Language Center
http://www.m-w.com/dictionary.html
Use the World Wide Web edition of Merriam-Webster's Collegiate
Dictionary, Tenth Edition and/or their World Wide
Web thesaurus.
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MetaGlossary.com: meaningful
results
http://www.metaglossary.com/
A search engine that provides definitions for words and phrases
along with explanations retrieved from the Web. Below
each definition/explanation is a list of Web links to related
Web sites. Also includes for
acronyms.
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OneLook Dictionaries
http://www.onelook.com/
This specialized search engine searches Internet dictionaries
for a word, phrase, or acronym you specify and provides a
list of online dictionaries containing your word.
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Oxford
English Dictionary Online
http://www.slu.edu/libraries/pius/databases/dbdesc/oxford.html
Click Sign in then Search
to begin. The OED traces a word's development in the
English language from its date of introduction to the present.
Contains current meanings and includes entomologies and historical
quotations. British focus.
Remote access
limited to Saint Louis University students, faculty, and
staff.
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Roget’s II: The
New Thesaurus, 3rd ed.
http://www.bartleby.com/62/
From Bartleby.com this is Houghton Mifflin's 1996 thesaurus
and Bartleby.com's 2000 thesaurus. This electronic version
contains 35,000 synonyms in addition to short definitions.
Search for a word or browse the alphabetical arrangement.
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RymeZone
http://www.rhymezone.com/
From Lycos, enter a word, and this program returns words that
rhyme with it by number of syllables. Also finds synonyms,
homophones, sound-alike words, phrases and related words
or search for pictures.
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Thesaurus.com
http://www.thesaurus.com
Based upon Roget's Thesaurus, this site contains a
Categorical Outline, Alphabetical Index, a Translator, and
Word of the Day as well as Crossword Puzzles.
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TravLang
Translating Dictionaries
http://dictionaries.travlang.com/
Provides a selection of electronic language dictionaries to
translate words to and from.
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Visual Dictionary Online
http://visual.merriam-webster.com/
From Merriam-Webster, browse by major themes such as Astronomy, Earth, Animal Kingdom, Human Being, Communications, etc. to see the objects words represent. Audio pronunciation is available for each word or phrase.
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WordNet
- a Lexical Database for English
http://www.cogsci.princeton.edu/~wn/
Developed by the Cognitive Science Laboratory at Princeton
University under the direction of George A. Miller, Ph.D,
this resource organizes "English nouns, verbs, adjectives
and adverbs. . . into synonym sets, each representing one
underlying lexical concept. Different relations link the synonym
sets."
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Wordsmyth
http://www.wordsmyth.net/
Enter an English word and this program returns its definition(s)
along with synonyms. It contains sections such
as Words of the Week, Crossword Puzzle Helper, Anagram Solver,
etc.
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yourDictionary.com
http://www.yourdictionary.com/languages.html
Begun in 1995 as A Web of On-line Dictionaries by Robert E.
Beard, Ph.D., a faculty member of the Russian Department and
the Linguistics Program at Bucknell University, this site
has now grown to more than 1,500 dictionaries representing
more than 260 languages and is a "comprehensive, and
authoritative portal for language, and language-related products
and services on the world wide web." (text from site
12/18/00)
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