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/
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- 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