General Encyclopedias and Dictionaries

• AllWords

     www.allwords.com
AskOxford
     www.askoxford.com

• Britannica Online

     www.britannica.com

• Free Internet Encyclopedia

     www.clever.net/cam/encyclopedia.html

• Funk & Wagnall's Encyclopedia

     search.epnet.com/login.asp?profile=funkwagnal

• Anita Nuopponen' Dictionaries

     www.uwasa.fi/comm/termino/special.html
• Merriam-Webster's Dictionary

     www.m-w.com/netdict.htm
• OneLook Dictionaries

     www.onelook.com
          Find definitions to over 1/2 a million words plus an index to specialized dictionaries.
• The Linguist List: Dictionaries, etc.

     www.emich.edu/~linguist/dictionaries.html
• WordNet

     www.cogsci.princeton.edu/~wn/w3wn.html

Dictionaries

• YourDictionary

     www.yourdictionary.com
         General dictionary which provides you with links to several subject-specific dictionaries, categorized by subject or language.

• Pedro's Dictionaries

     www.public.iastate.edu/~pedro/dictionaries.html
         Link list to subject-specific dictionaries, categorized by language.

• Terminology Collection: Online Dictionaries

     www.uwasa.fi/comm/termino/collect
         This service offers links to all kinds of subject-specific dictionaries. By selecting a language or a subject you get a link list to appropriat dictionaries.

Specified Encyclopedias and Dictionaries

• Acronym Finder

     www.acronymfinder.com
          95,100 acronyms/abbreviations.

• Star's Family StarBits
       cdsweb.u-strasbg.fr/~heck/sfbits.htm
            An acronym dictionary with 90,000 entries.
  
• The Acronym and Abbreviation Server
       www.ucc.ie/info/net/acronyms/acro.html TRY index.html if does not work

• Dictionary of PC Hardware and Data Communication Terms

     www.ora.com/reference/dictionary
          Allows for keyword and concept searches; provides definitions and links to related words.
• FOLDOC: Free On-Line Dictionary of Computing

     www.nightflight.com/foldoc/index.html
          Includes browsable list of hundreds of headings; also searchable by word and letter of the alphabet.
• Glosario de Internet (en Espanol)

     www.uco.es/webuco/si/ccc/glosario/glosario.html
          A glossary of internet terms in Spanish.

• NetGlos - The Multilingual Glossary of Internet Terminology

     www.wwli.com/translation/netglos/netglos.html
• NetLingo: The Internet Language Dictionary

     netlingo.com
• PC Webopedia

     www.pcwebopedia.com
         Online dictionary and search engine for computer and Internet technology.
• TechWeb TechEncyclopedia

     www.techweb.com/encyclopedia/
          Useful for defining computer-related terms; over 10,000 words.

• Little Explorers

     www.enchantedlearning.com/Dictionary.html
          A children's dictionary; in addition to offering brief and extended definitions with illustrations, helps with basic letter and sound recognition.
• Random House Kids Encyclopedia

     www.letsfindout.com
          Contains 2,000 entries of text (no illustrations) with internal links.

• Academic Press Dictionary of Science and Technology
       www.harcourt.com/dictionary/
  
• Encyclopedia of Life Sciences
       www.macmillan-reference.co.uk/Science/EncyclopediaLifeSci.htm
           
• MEDLINEplus Dictionaries
       www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/dictionaries.html
           Medical dictionary with a link list to several other medical as well as general dictionaries.
  
• ODLIS: Online Dictionary of Library and Information Science

     www.wcsu.edu/library/odlis.html
• Online Scientific and Medical Dictionaries

         A comprehensive link list to dictionaries of medicine, life science and other sciences.
     www.sciencekomm.at/advice/dict.html

• AltaVista Translantions

     babelfish.altavista.digital.com/cgi-bin/tranlate?
         AltaVista Translations is only able to translate single words properly, sentences/phrases are translated word by word so that the content gets changed!

• ARTFL Project: French-English Dictionary

     humanities.uchicago.edu/forms_unrest/FR-ENG.html
• Swahili dictionary

     www.yale.edu/swahili
• Logos Multilingual Portal

     www.logos.it         
• The Translator's Home Companion

     www.lai.com/lai/companion.html>
         Link list to translating machines on the web, categorized by laguage.

• Travlang's Translating Dictionaries

    dictionaries.travlang.com
         Multilingual translating machine.

• Yiddish in America

     http://www.koshernosh.com/in-ameri.htm
         Collection of Yiddish expressions and their English translations.

• A Basic Dictionary of American Sign Language
       www.masterstech-home.com/ASLDict.html
  
  
• Behind the Name: the Etymology and History of First Names
      www.behindthename.com
  
  
• Casey's Snow Day Reverse Dictionary
       www.c3.lanl.gov/revdict/
            Enter a definition and search engine retrieves a list of possible words.
  
  
• Devil's Dictionary

     www.alcyone.com/max/lit/devils
         Gives cynic description on words, browsable by letters of the alphabet.

• The Glossarist
       http://glossarist.com/
           
• Know Play
       http://www.kplay.cc/reference.html
           
• Shakespearian Glossary
       http://eserver.org/langs/shakespeare-glossary.txt
           Alphabetical list of Shakesperian expressions and their meanings.
  
• Symbols.com

     www.symbols.com
          Online encyclopedia of graphic symbols.


• Strange & Unusual Dictionaries
      www.blueray.com/dictionary
• World Fact Book 1998
       www.odci.gov/cia/publications/factbook/index.html
            Country information, incuding maps, browsable through a country list or by subject.
  
• World Wide Encyclopedia of Christianity
       http://www.ccel.org/php/wwec.php

         The World Wide Encyclopedia of Christianity is intended to provide one-stop access to a number of dictionaries and encyclopedias of Christianity, and other topical references. Currently it is linked to Easton's Bible Dictionary, Torrey's Topical Textbook, Elwell's Dictionary of Christian Theology, and the Catholic Encyclopedia.

• WriteExpress: Online Rhyming Dictionary
       www.rhymer.com
  

Thesauri

• Roget's Thesaurus
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