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1913 Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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The ARTFL (University of Chicago Project for American and French Research on the Treasury of the French Language) Main Database has 114.7 million words, 400,000 unique forms, in 1,880 works, listed in the online
Bibliography. This dictionary is obviously out of date and needs substantial
supplementation, but it is a free Internet source.
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AhoraUSA
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AhoraUSA is a Spanish language Web site that features Science & Technology, BBC news & radio links, and government information for native Spanish speakers or students of Spanish language.
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American Sign Language Browser
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A easy way to learn American Sign Language one word at a time with video clips.
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American Sign Language Deaf Dictionary
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This site includes an online ASL textbook and tutorial, tests, dictionaries, hints, and links, etc. to aid in learning and using American Sign Language. In places, helpful animated figures show the arm or hand movements!
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Computer Dictionary
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Computer Dictionary is the leading information source for definitions and explanations of computer and technology terms. The collection of computer and technology information is one of the largest on the internet. All terms are sorted alphabetically.
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Dictionary of Wisconsin History
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The Dictionary of Wisconsin History is a collection of words and phrases gathered from the Turning Points in Wisconsin History digital collection. Certain names of people, places, things, and events specific to Wisconsin can be found in this growing online dictionary.
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DOD Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms
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Check the meaning of military terms (e.g. MIA or Missing in Action), acronyms, abbreviations, and NATO terms using this Department of Defense (DOD) Web site.
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Ethnologue
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Electronic version of the 15th edition of Ethnologue (a catalogue of more than 6,900 languages spoken in 228 countries), the Ethnologue Language Name Index(a list of over 39,000 language names, dialect names, and alternate names), and the Ethnologue Language Family Index (which organizes languages according to language families).
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Howjsay
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This free online source from Answers.com allows you to hear the pronunciation of thousands of words by the click of the mouse. Simply type in the word you want to hear pronounced, and then mouse over it to hear it as often as you want. Howjsay even gives multiple pronunciations when applicable.
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Merriam-Webster Dictionary
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Based on Merriam-Webster's Collegiate® Dictionary, Eleventh Edition, this online dictionary includes the main A-Z listing, as well as the Abbreviations, Foreign Words and Phrases, Biographical Names, and Geographical Names sections, 1,000 illustrations and 25 tables.
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OneAcross
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A search engine that helps solve crossword puzzles and anagrams. This site was created by some of the creators of the computer program Proverb (The Probabilistic Cruciverbalist), which informally competed in the 1999 American Crossword Tournament.
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OneLook Dictionaries
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OneLook Dictionaries contains over 5 million words indexed in more than 900 online dictionaries. Whether you're looking for a definition or translation, OneLook will provide a list of Web
dictionaries. If you are unsure of the spelling of a word OneLook allows you to type in a pattern of letters with wildcard symbols
such as "*" and "?," and it will retrieve a list of words matching that pattern.
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Online Translator
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Babelfish gives easy access to a number of different resources for online language translation.
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Phrase Finder
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This collection of over 6,000 English phrases and sayings can be used as a 'phrases thesaurus' (to show a list of phrases that relate to any word you choose), for the meanings or origins of English phrases and sayings.
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The Free Dictionary
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This Web site allows the search of general, medical, legal, financial, and computer dictionaries, as well as multiple encyclopedias.
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Webster's Online Dictionary, Rosetta Edition
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Based on the classic Webster's 1913 unabridged dictionary and supplemented with updated definitions, word origins, histories, timelines, images, translations and quotations.
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Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
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This English language dictionary contains approximately 50,000 words. Due to database size, it was decided to exclude etymologies.
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You Say it How?
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The LBPH Pronunciation Guide to Names of Public Figures is a pronunciation guide for the names of contemporary and lesser known figures. The guide is enhanced with audio clips that demonstrate how the word is pronounced.
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yourDictionary
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Look up a general or specialized word in the more than 1500 dictionaries representing more than 230 languages (English or foreign-language) listed here. Also included are tools such as thesaurus, rhyming, phrase, pronunciation, acronym, synonym, vocabulary and grammar resources, and specialized dictionaries for law, business, finance, medicine, computing, golf, sports, sailing, education, space, etc.
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