Online Dictionaries


ARTFL Project: ROGET Form
http://humanities.uchicago.edu/forms_unrest/ROGET.html
A forms-based search engine for Roget's Thesaurus, 1991 edition. Headword searches support full UNIX regular expressions.
Author: Mark Olsen (mark@gide.uchicago.edu)
Keywords: Reference; Dictionaries; Thesaurus

A Basic Dictionary of ASL Terms
http://home.earthlink.net/~masterstek/ASLDict.html
A partial dictionary giving signing instructions for commonly used American Sign Language terms.
Author: The Master's Tech (masterstek@earthlink.net)
Keywords: Reference; Dictionaries; English; American Sign Language

Casey's Snow Day Reverse Dictionary (and Guru)
http://www.c3.lanl.gov:8075/cgi/casey/revdict/
Author: Carlos McEvilly (cim@lanl.gov)
Keywords: Reference; Dictionaries; English; Reverse

ECHO - Eurodicautom
http://www.uni-frankfurt.de/~kurlanda/eurodicautom.html
An impressive but very slow online dictionary that translates amongst English, French, German, Italian, Spanish, Danish, Dutch, and Portuguese.
Author: Felix Gaehtgens and Jens Kurlanda (kurlanda@cs.uni-frankfurt.de)
Keywords: Reference; Dictionaries; English; French; German; Italian; Spanish; Danish; Dutch; Portuguese; Translation

Encyberpedia Dictionary and Glossary
http://www.encyberpedia.com/glossary.htm
"Complete listing of all the major dictionaries and glossaries on the Internet. Includes everything from sign language, telecommunications, computers, weather, tides, water quality and a lot more." Some annotations.
Author: Monte Cristo Information Services (Count@montecristo.com)
Keywords: Reference; Dictionaries; Internet

Englisch <-> Deutsches Wörterbuch
http://www.tu-chemnitz.de/~fri/forms/dict.html
A forms-based index that translates a word in German to its English equivalent, or vice versa.
Author: Frank Richter (Frank.Richter@hrz.tu-chemnitz.de)
Keywords: Reference; Dictionaries; English; German; Translate

French Dictionary (Thresor de la langue française, 1606)
http://humanities.uchicago.edu/forms_unrest/TLF.html
Searchable version of the 1606 edition of Jean Nicot's Thresor de la Langue Française, a French language dictionary containing over 18,000 entries. From ARTFL Project.
Author: Mark Olsen (mark@gide.uchicago.edu)
Keywords: Reference; Dictionaries; French

HyperSurfing English - French Dictionary
http://mlab-power3.uiah.fi/EnglishFrench/ef.html
A forms-based index that translates a word in French to its English equivalent, or vice versa.
Author: Jouni Santara (jouni.santara@uiah.fi)
Keywords: Reference; Dictionaries; English; French; Translate

Hypertext Webster Interface
http://c.gp.cs.cmu.edu:5103/prog/webster
A searchable English dictionary that contains many hypertextual links in its entries.
Author: Bennet Yee
Keywords: Reference; Dictionaries; English

An Index of On-line Dictionaries
http://www.bucknell.edu/~rbeard/diction.html
"This page is an index of on-line dictionaries, thesauri, and other reference works pertaining to words and phrases. Preference in selection has been given to free online dictionaries of high quality, useful to specialists and translators. However, downloadable and subscription material are listed if exceptionally rare, unusually well-executed." Comprehensive, covering dozens of languages.
Author: Robert Beard (rbeard@bucknell.edu)
Keywords: Reference; Dictionaries;

The Internet Dictionary Project
http://www.hardlink.com/~chambers/IDP/IDPsearch.html
Searchable translation dictionaries that translate between English and Spanish, Italian or German.
Author: Tyler Jones (tchamber@lynx.neu.edu)
Keywords: Reference; Dictionaries; English; Spanish; English; German; Translate

Japanese/English Dictionary Gateway
http://www.wg.omron.co.jp/cgi-bin/j-e
A forms-based index that translates a word in Japanese to its English equivalent, or vice versa.
Author: Jeffrey E. F. Friedl (jfriedl@omron.co.jp)
Keywords: Reference; Dictionaries; English; Japanese; Translate

LOGOS Dictionary
http://www.logos.it/query.html
A searchable dictionary that translates words and phrases amongst English, French, Italian, Estonian and Cantonese.
Author: LOGOS Group (dictionary@logos.it)
Keywords: Reference; Dictionaries; Translation; English; French; Italian; Estonian; Cantonese

OneLook Dictionaries
http://www.onelook.com/
A fast dictionary search tool which allows you to look up a word in 37 different dictionaries simultaneously, or pick specific dictionaries from a grouping of subject-specific dictionaries. Includes Internet/computer, science, technology, business, sports, religion, acronymn, and general dictionaries. You can also browse the dictionaries individually.
Author: Robert K. Ware (bware@onelook.com)
Keywords: Reference; Dictionaries; English

Rhyming Dictionary
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~dougb/rhyme.html
Enter a word and the server will return a list of words with which your word rhymes.
Author: Doug Beeferman (dougb+@cs.cmu.edu)
Keywords: Reference; Dictionaries; English; Rhyming

Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases
http://www2.thesaurus.com/thesaurus/
"Hypertext edition of Roget's Thesaurus, based on the text of the 1911 edition from Project Gutenberg." Browsable and Searchable.
Author: Brian Kariger (webmaster@thesaurus.com)
Keywords: Reference; Dictionaries; English; Thesaurus

Test and Evaluation Acronyms, Abbreviations, and Definitions with Personal Computer (PC) Annex
http://tecnet1.jcte.jcs.mil:8000/htdocs/dodinfo/acronyms/list.html
Very large file (nearly 1MB) of US miltary abbreviations and acronyms with their expansions.
Author: ITT Federal Services Corporation
Keywords: Reference; Dictionaries; Military; United States; Acronyms; Abbreviations

WWWebster Dictionary
http://www-lj.eb.com/mw/
An excellent hyperlinked dictionary and thesaurus, based on the Merriam-Webster dictionary. The search engine supports wildcards and right-hand truncation. A help page and pronunciation guide are included.
Author: Merriam-Webster, Inc. (suggest@m-w.com)
Keywords: Reference; Dictionaries; English

WordNet 1.5 WWW Interface
http://www.cogsci.princeton.edu/~wn/w3wn.html
"WordNet is an on-line lexical reference system whose design is inspired by current psycholinguistic theories of human lexical memory. English nouns, verbs, adjectives and adverbs are organized into synonym sets, each representing one underlying lexical concept. Different relations link the synonym sets." You can search for synonyms, antonyms, hyponyms, troponyms, familiarity, and other relationships. Requires a Java-enabled browser.
Author: Princeton University Cognitive Science Laboratory (wordnet@princeton.edu)
Keywords: Reference; Dictionaries; Thesaurus; Synonyms; Antonyms; Linguistics; English

The World Wide Web Acronym and Abbreviation Server
http://www.ucc.ie/info/net/acronyms/index.html
An index of over 10,000 acronyms and their expansions. You may search the acronym itself, the first word which makes up an acronym, or submit an acronym for inclusion in the database. The database is updated weekly.
Author: Peter Flynn (webmaster@www.ucc.ie)
Keywords: Reference; Dictionaries; Acronym


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