| Acronyms
& Abbreviations |
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Abbreviations
and Acronyms of the U.S. Government |
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"When
possible, these links go directly to the official website for the agency
or program listed." From the Library, Indiana Univ-Purdue
Univ, Indianapolis. |
|
Acronym
Database |
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Originally, the World Wide Web Acronym
Database begun in 1991, "this is a list of acronyms (abbreviations constructed
mostly from the initial letters of the words of a phrase), gathered from many
network sources and submitted by users." Provides reverse lookup,
that is, finds an acronym using a keyword or phrase in the acronym's meaning. |
| Acronym
Finder
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|
"The
Acronym Finder is a...searchable database of more than 368,000 abbreviations and acronyms about computers, technology, telecommunications, and military acronyms
and abbreviations." Search options include exact, first letter,
wildcard and reverse lookup (keywords). |
| Acronyms and
Abbreviations--Michigan Electronic Library |
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A collection of
general and subject specific acronym site links. |
| All that JAS
(Journal Abbreviation Sources) |
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"Journal Abbreviation Sources is a registry of Web resources that
list or provide access to the full title of journal abbreviations." |
|
Scientific
and Technical Acronyms, Symbols, and Abbreviations |
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"This
reference work features over 200,000 entries covering the abbreviations, symbols
and acronyms used in science and technology. It is a searchable, online
rendering of the acclaimed Scientific and Technical Acronyms, Symbols and
Abbreviations by Uwe Erb and Harald Keller (published
2001, John Wiley & Sons)." |
| U.
S. Postal Service Official Abbreviations |
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Official abbreviations of
states and possessions, street suffixes, and secondary unit designators. |
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Language Dictionaries & Thesauri
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Alternative
Dictionaries
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An experimental
"internet collaborative project" that defines "words and
expressions you most likely won't find in a normal dictionary." |
|
American
Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
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|
"Over 90,000
entries feature 10,000 new words and senses, 70,000 audio word
pronunciations, 900 full-page color illustrations, language notes
and word-root appendixes." From Bartleby.com |
| Answers.com
(formerly GuruNet.com) |
|
"A
free, ad-supported, reference search service, created to provide you
with instant answers....from...authoritative encyclopedias,
dictionaries, glossaries and atlases." The freely downloadable
software 1-Click Answers "brings you instant information about any
word on your screen, whether you're working in Word, reading your
e-mail, or browsing the web." |
| AskOxford.com |
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Search the Compact Oxford
English Dictionary and read tips on spelling, grammar, and
writing. |
| Cambridge
Dictionaries Online |
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Designed for
learners of English, common contemporary usage is the focus. |
|
Chinese-English Dictionary,
MDBG |
| |
A Wiki
dictionary that searches by Chinese, Pinyin or English definition.
Includes sound files, radicals, stroke order, and links to online
character flash cards. |
|
CMU Pronouncing Dictionary
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|
"The
Carnegie Mellon University Pronouncing Dictionary is a machine-readable
pronunciation dictionary for North American English that contains over 100,000
words and their transcriptions." |
| Collins
Concise Spanish Dictionary at WordReference.com |
|
French, Italian, Portuguese and English dictionaries
as well as "a
splendid free bilingual dictionary that excellently covers Spanish and
English words and expressions used on either side of the Atlantic."
According to reviewer, Peter Jacso. |
| Dictionaries,
Thesauri, & Glossaries - Michigan Electronic Library |
|
A
huge collection of
general and subject specific site links followed by
a section of dictionaries and translation tools by specific
language. |
| GuruNet
Free now
Answers.com |
|
|
| OneLook Dictionaries |
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"A search
engine for....more than 5 million words in more than 900 online
dictionaries are indexed by the OneLook search engine.
|
| Online
Etymology Dictionary |
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Compiled by
journalist, Douglas Harper. |
Oxford English Dictionary
Help |
|
"The Oxford
English Dictionary is the accepted authority on the evolution of the
English language over the last millennium. It is an unsurpassed guide to
the meaning, history, and pronunciation of over half a million words,
both present and past." |
| Roget’s
II: The New Thesaurus, Third Edition. 1995 |
|
"...35,000
synonyms in an easy-to-use format..." from Bartleby.com |
| Roget’s
International Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases. 1922 |
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"The classic
structure... with 85,000 hyperlinked cross-references." From
Bartleby.com |
| RhymeZone |
|
A rhyming dictionary, thesaurus, spell checker, and word finding tool,
it will also search all of Shakespeare's plays and poems for your word. |
| Slang,
Commonly-Used American |
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More than 280 common
American slang expressions sorted alphabetically. A part of Interesting
Things for ESL Students by Charles
I. Kelly & Lawrence E. Kelly. |
|
Visual Dictionary
Online |
| |
20,000 terms with contextual
definitions; 6,000 full-color images of a wide
variety of objects from all aspects of life;
includes audio pronunciation. From Merriam-Webster |
| Word2Word |
|
A gateway to
online language dictionaries, machine translators, translating services
including chat translation, RealAudio
language stations, language specific searches, alphabets, ancient
language resources, transliteration systems, translation devices and
software, technical writing resources, language related newsgroups and
much more.
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WordReference.com |
| |
"superior translation dictionaries for
French, Italian, and Spanish.
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| Wordsmyth |
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A searchable
dictionary with an integrated thesaurus. |
| yourDictionary.com |
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A portal for language and language-related products and services on
the web with more than 1800 dictionaries in more than 250 languages. The
Specialty Dictionary Department features over 130 categories. |
|
Quotations
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| Bartlett's Familiar
Quotations |
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"This tenth edition of 1919 contains over 11,000
searchable quotations." |
|
Columbia World of Quotations
1996.
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"The 65,000
essential quotations by 5,000 authors that constitute this authoritative
collection represent the research of 154 experts and are divided into 6,500
subjects." |
| Creative
Quotations |
|
"Connects you to 50,000 quotations....search...by
keyword, source, topic and author (including her/his name, nationality,
profession and birthday)." |
| Quotations--Michigan
Electronic Library |
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A portal that lists a large
number of quotation sites. |
| Quotations
Page |
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A searchable database of over 15,.000 quotations established in
1994 with author and subject listings. |
| Simpson's
Contemporary Quotations 1988. |
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Notable quotations from 1950
to 1988. "With
over 10,000 quotations from 4,000 sources organized into 25 categories and 60
sections, this comprehensive reference contains words of wit and wisdom from
such modern notables as Ezra Pound, Henry Kissinger, George Orwell, Dorothy
Parker, and Desmond Tutu." |
|
Subject Dictionaries
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| Law,
The Real Life Dictionary of the |
|
Browse or search
terms and definitions. From Law.com, a division of American Lawyer Media
(ALM). ALM...owns and publishes 24 national and regional legal magazines
and newspapers, including "The American Lawyer" and "The
National Law Journal". |
| Legal
Dictionary, Everybody's |
|
Legal terms in
plain English from Nolo, a publisher of self-help legal
information. Search or browse by topic. |
| Lex
Scripta: English Language Dictionaries |
|
An annotated list of sites to
English, poetical, historial, and miscellaneous dictionaries compiled by
Anthony John Hunter Morris, QC. |
| Medical
Dictionary, On-line |
|
OMD is a
searchable dictionary created by Dr Graham Dark (<dark@cancerweb.org.uk>)
and contains terms relating to biochemistry, cell biology, chemistry,
medicine, molecular biology, physics, plant biology, radiobiology,
science and technology. It includes: acronyms, jargon, theory,
conventions, standards, institutions, projects, eponyms, history, in
fact anything to do with medicine or science. |
| Military
Terms, DOD Dictionary of |
|
Browse the
dictionary, NATO Only Terms, or Acronyms & Abbreviations. From the
U.S. Department of Defense. |
| OneLook Dictionaries |
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"A search
engine for....more than 5 million words in more than 900 online
dictionaries are indexed by the OneLook search engine." The
Browse Dictionaries view lists art, business, computing, medicine,
religion, science, slang, sports and technology categories.
|
| yourDictionary.com |
|
A portal for language and language-related products and services on
the web with more than 1800 dictionaries in more than 250 languages. The
Specialty Dictionary Department features over 130 categories. |
|
Symbols
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| SYMBOLS.com |
|
"SYMBOLS.com
contains 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." |
|
General Encyclopedias
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| Answers.com
(formerly GuruNet.com) |
|
"A
free, ad-supported, reference search service, created to provide you
with instant answers....from over 100 authoritative encyclopedias,
dictionaries, glossaries and atlases." The freely downloadable
software 1-Click Answers "brings you instant information about any
word on your screen, whether you're working in Word, reading your
e-mail, or browsing the web." |
| Britannica
Concise Encyclopedia |
|
According to Peter
Jacso,
Peter's
Digital Reference Shelf, March 2002, "Where BCE really
shines is with the substantial definition of many words and names. These are
longer than the ones in the comparable encyclopedias and BCE has
definitions for terms which do not even occur in other concise encyclopedias,
let alone as main entries." Its weakness is currency--no additions since
mid-2000. |
| The
Columbia Encyclopedia |
|
Contains nearly 51,000 articles (over
17,000 are up-to-date
biographical entries); information
provided in one article is generally not repeated in another, therefore,
cross-references are used extensively in the text. Many articles include a
selected bibliography. From Bartleby.com. |
| Encarta Online
Encyclopedia |
|
A free subset of the
Encarta Encyclopedia Deluxe,
the site includes the Encarta World English Dictionary and Atlas. |
| Encyclopedias
- Michigan Electronic Library |
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A collection of
general and subject specific encyclopedia site links |
|
Wikipedia |
| |
"the
free encyclopedia that anyone can edit." |
|
Subject Encyclopedias
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|
Anatomy Atlases: a digital library of anatomy information |
|
Atlases
include the Illustrated Encyclopedia of Human Anatomic Variation
that covers muscular, cardiovascular, nervous,
endocrine, gastrointestinal,
genitourinary, respiratory,
and skeletal systems, the Atlas of Microscopic Anatomy, the
Anatomy of First Aid, and others. Also, links to other digital libraries. |
|
Canadian
Encyclopedia | L'Encyclopedie canadienne |
|
Published online by
Historica "a charitable foundation dedicated to promoting Canadian history
education." |
| The
Catholic Encyclopedia |
|
Over 11,000 articles comprise the complete text
of the 15 volume 1913 edition. Secular and religious topics are treated from a
Catholic perspective. |
| Encyclopaedia of
Occupational Health and Safety. Fourth Edition |
|
Searchable and browseable, it's
published by the International Labour Office and is designed "to
provide the general user with background information on the major
disciplines of occupational health and safety in an understandable
manner..." Contributors include over 1,000 experts from 60
different countries. |
| Encyclopaedia of the Orient |
|
According to Peter Jacso, Peter's
Digital Reference Shelf, July 2000, "This is a top notch
source for anyone who would like background information about people, countries
and religious issues in the Middle Eastern and Northern African region--a region
that is in the news almost every day." |
| Encyclopedia
Mythica |
|
"An
encyclopedia on mythology, folklore, legends, and more," it
includes an image gallery and some genealogy tables. |
| Encyclopedia
of Law and Economics |
|
"An
ambitious reference work that attempts to survey the whole law and economics
literature in nearly 5,000 pages. Most entries contain two elements: a review of
the literature, written by an authority in the field, and a quasi complete
bibliography (not just a selection)." |
Gale Virtual Reference Library
funded
by |
| |
Available from the home page
under Online Databases as a collection of encyclopedias classified by Business, Education,
Environment,
History,
Literature,
Medicine,
Multicultural Studies,
Nation and World,
Religion,
Science, and
Social Science. And, available via Books on the
home page searching by
individual title or by the collection title. Tip: E-books is a Quick
limit option in the Basic Search interface.
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|
History of Ideas, Dictionary of the |
| |
Excluding
the illustrations of the paper original, this free online encyclopedic
dictionary presents "studies of selected pivotal ideas." Besides the
original edition, Albertsons Library holds
The New Dictionary of the History of
Ideas in paper. |
| How Stuff Works |
|
Provides in-depth illustrated articles that explain how things (scientific and
technological) work. |
|
Internet
Encyclopedia of Philosophy |
|
"Articles in the
Internet Encyclopedia
of Philosophy are currently from three sources (1) original contributions by
specialized philosophers around the internet, (2) adaptations of material
written by the editors for classroom purposes, and (3) adaptations from public
domain sources (typically from two or more sources for per article)."
Features a timeline. |
| Jewish
Encyclopedia |
|
"...the
complete contents of the 12-volume Jewish
Encyclopedia, which was originally published between 1901-1906. The
Jewish Encyclopedia, which recently became part of the public
domain, contains over 15,000 articles and illustrations." |
|
Oxford Encyclopedia of Children's Literature
|
| |
Includes "essays
on all genres of children's literature, individual works, and prominent
trends and themes, as well as general essays on the traditions of
children's literature in many countries throughout the world." |
|
Oxford Encyclopedia of Economic History
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| |
"International
in scope and spanning all time periods of human history, The Oxford
Encyclopedia of Economic History includes 900 original articles by
noted scholars from more than thirty-five countries." |
| Stanford
Encyclopedia of Philosophy |
|
A publication of the
Metaphysics Research Lab, Center for the Study of Language and
Information at Stanford University. |
| Webopedia: |
|
Self-described
"#1 encyclopedia dedicated to computer technology." Includes
rated topic specific external links. |
