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OneLook
Dictionaries
There are a number of good dictionaries on the Internet. However, sometimes you need to look at several before finding the word you're looking for. If the definitions in that dictionary don't quite give you what you want then you have to search again. The purpose of this web page is to provide single-point access to multiple Internet glossaries and dictionaries.
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Web of On-line Dictionaries
This website indexes on-line dictionaries, thesauri, and such like containing words and phrases. Preference in selection has been given to free online dictionaries of high quality. However, downloadable and subscription materials are listed if exceptionally rare and/or unusually well-executed.
This page is now linked to more than 800 dictionaries in 175 different languages.
English
Language Dictionaries (return to categories list)
Merriam-Webster
Online
This dictionary and thesaurus site also offers a "dictionary"
button for your browser, that lets you highlight a word on a web page and
look it up with a single click.
Roget's
Thesaurus
The classic reference now on-line as Roget's Thesaurus, Internet Edition
1.5.1. It also contains Peter Roget's preface to the first edition,
written on April 29, 1852.
Strunk's
Elements of Style
This classic 1918 book in on-line version is a small but very valuable
reference. It contains the 18 key rules of usage and composition, along
with the correct use of headings, numerals, quotations, and titles. It
also contains sections on Words and Expressions Commonly Misused and Words
Commonly Misspelled.
Common
Errors in English
This site states that its aim is to help you avoid low grades, lost employment opportunities, lost business, and titters of amusement at the way you write or speak.
Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
This on-line reference includes links to
Princeton University's WordNet, a database of relationships between word senses. It organizes English nouns, verbs, adjectives and adverbs into "synonym sets", each such set representing one underlying
word concept.
Dictionary of American Regional English
This dictionary contains the many thousands of differences that characterize the various dialect regions of the United States.
BritSpeak
English as a Second Language for Americans. A British - American English Dictionary.
If you have a British friend, or you are planning a trip to England, take
a look at this site and avoid the common Trans-Atlantic pitfalls.
Richard
Smiths Compendium of Britishisms
This page is dedicated to the uniqueness of the British way of speaking. Smith hopes that by creating this page, foreign viewers of British television programs, or
travelers to the UK are able to make head or tail of what people are talking about.
Carnegie Mellon University Pronouncing Dictionary
This is a machine-readable pronunciation dictionary for North American English that contains over 100,000 words and their transcriptions. This format is particularly useful for speech recognition and synthesis.
Grandiloquent
Dictionary
A collection of 2,000 words which are often omitted from dictionaries, and are in danger of being eliminated from the English language.
Technical
Dictionaries (return to categories list)
Free
On-line Dictionary of Computing
As of August 6, 1999 this dictionary contained 12,660 computing terms.
Dictionary of PC Hardware and Data Communications Terms
This comprehensive dictionary provides complete descriptions of complex terms in two of the most volatile and interesting areas of computer development: personal computers and networks. It contains up-to-date information about everything from a common item like "batteries" to an obscure font technology called "Speedo."
WhatIs.com
whatis® is an award-winning knowledge exploration tool about information
technology, especially about the Internet and computers. It contains over
2,000 individual encyclopedic definition/topics and a number of
quick-reference pages. The topics contain about 10,000 hyperlinked
cross-references between definition-topics and to other sites for further
information.
NetLingo
NetLingo is an online dictionary containing hundreds of words that are emerging as a new vocabulary surrounding the technology and community of the Internet and the World Wide Web.
The Ultimate Computer Acronyms
Archive
This site allows provides access to a database of more than
5,500 computer-related acronyms. To use this site your browser must support frames, Graphics, Tables, and
either Java, JavaScript or cookies (which must also be enabled).
A+ Materials Science and Engineering Glossary
The internet resource for information on terms used frequently in materials science and engineering.
Computer
Standards and Specifications
This site contains detailed plain
English definitions for the various items that you so often see in
personal computer specifications.
TechEncyclopedia
More than 13,000 definitions of computer terms and concepts.
Geographical Information Systems (GIS) Dictionary
The dictionary includes definitions for 980 terms compiled from a variety of sources which either relate directly to GIS or which GIS users may come across in the course of their work. The dictionary is also supplemented by 52 diagrams.
Glossaries
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Babel
Also known as the Glossary of Computer Oriented
Abbreviations and Acronyms. The authors first compiled this list when they became frustrated while reading magazine
articles, help wanted ads and equipment for sale brochures all containing acronyms that the authors didn't know and couldn't easily find.
Jane's Internet Defence Glossary
This database contains over 20,000 defence-related acronyms and abbreviations. You can use the search facility or view the glossary alphabetically.
DOD
Dictionary of Military Terms
From this page you can also access a database of military
acronyms and abbreviations.
Universal Switching's Glossary of Electronic Terms
A list of common terms and definitions which are used in the Switching and Electronics industry. A downloadable version is available.
Glossary of Networking Terms
From the Network Group.
Glossary
of Fiber Optic Terms
Provided by The Fiber Optic Exchange.
Internet
Glossary of Pumps
From the Book All About Pumps by Russell D. Hoffman.
The Bioenergy
Glossary
Published by the Oregon Department of Energy, this a useful compendium of more than 600 technical terms. Included in the glossary are general terms and specialized terms associated with bioenergy technologies. Definitions have been drawn from the fields of energy policy and development, forestry, biofuels, cogeneration, waste water treatment, and biogas production. The Bioenergy Glossary is a reference guide for bioenergy industries in Oregon.
Earthquake
Terms Glossary
This glossary's terms are taken from "Washington State Earthquake Hazards", by Linda Noson, Anthony Q amar, and Gerald
Thorsen.
British
Slang Glossary
Written by a U.S. student while living in Cambridge, most of the words here represent different words, or different usages, from around the South of England, and some specific to Cambridge University, or Oxbridge, with a scattering of Northern slang.
The Computational Beauty of Nature Glossary
Computer Explorations of Fractals, Chaos, Complex Systems, and Adaptation.
Acronyms
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Acronym
Finder
Here you can search a database of 101,200 acronyms/abbreviations & their meanings.
It contains common acronyms and abbreviations about all subjects, with a focus on computers, technology, telecommunications, and the military.
The WorldWideWeb Acronym and Abbreviation Server
This database is maintained at University College Cork (Ireland).
Public
Broadcasting Acronym Directory
Many things in public broadcasting (pubcasting)--and the electronic media in general--have such tremendously long names that people use acronyms to refer to them. Here's a guide to what they mean. Also included are actual names of organizations that are as obscure as acronyms. Originally published in the newspaper
Current, this list has been updated over the years by NETA (National Educational Telecommunications Association) and by Current.
Encyclopedias
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Electric
Library Fee Online Encyclopedia
This free online reference contains 14,000 articles from the Concise Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia, Third Edition.
Britannica Online
The Encyclopaedia Britannica online.
Funk
and Wagnalls
Complete Funk & Wagnalls unabridged
29-volume encyclopedia, enriched with multimedia: animations, sounds,
music, flags, maps and more. Random House Webster's College Dictionary
with over 165,000 entries PLUS: Pronunciation key, Abbreviation chart,
Writer's guide, Signs and symbols chart, Geographical facts, Nations of
the World, and Presidents of the United States.
Symbols Encyclopedia
This is the world's largest online encyclopedia of graphic symbols, containing more than 2,500 Western signs, arranged into 54 groups according to their graphic characteristics. In 1,600 articles their histories, uses, and meanings are thoroughly discussed. The signs range from ideograms carved in mammoth teeth by Cro-Magnon men, to hobo signs and subway graffiti.
The
Household Cyclopedia of General Information
This 1881 reference book contains "over 10,000 receipts in all the
useful and domestic arts..."
Computer
Virus Encyclopedia
A database with descriptions of computer viruses and a glossary of
virus-related computer terminology. A free service by the maker of
AntiViral Toolkit Pro.
The
Knowledge Adventure Encyclopedia
A children's encyclopedia also known as LetsFindOut.com.
EncycloZine
This site is worth checking out. "EncycloZine is a place to easily find quality information on the Internet; it's a hybrid mini-portal / concise encyclopedia, with fun interactivities for learning and exercising the mind."
It's not just for kids. When you only have a few minutes to spare, but you
need a "break", this is a place where you can stretch and relax
your mind at the same time. (What occurs twice in a lifetime, but once in
a year, twice in a week but never in a day? Click for the answer.)
Miscellaneous
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Barlett's
Familiar Quotations
Passages, phrases and proverbs traced to their sources.
Basic Dictionary of ASL
Terms
This is a dictionary of American Sign Language.
Biotech
Life Sciences Dictionary
This illustrated dictionary will give you information on thousands of life science terms. It's home page also contains links to the
Chemical Acronyms Database; the Science Resources page that contain annotated lists of biomedical Web sites for scientists, educators and students;
and to the Bioinformatics page, an introduction to the hybrid of computer science and biology.
Maps (return to categories list)
Airport
Terminal Maps
Terminal Maps and
other information for 31 U.S. international airports, 60 U.S. domestic
airports plus 52 other worldwide airports.
Atlases & Driving Directions
This site contains links to 7 maps-by-address sites and 5 driving directions sites, plus other online map resources.
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