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Bartelby
Contemporary and classic reference works, a public reference library published on the Web.HighBeam Research
Online reference library containing 33,000,000 documents, with a free trial available.Human Search
A volunteer staff will locate information on the Internet in 48 hours free of charge.Lexicool
A portal search engine dedicated to locating dictionaries and glossaries on the Web.Refdesk.com
If you can't find a link to reference here, you're not looking hard enough.Virtual Reference Sites
2500 of the most popular reference locations on the Web.
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language
Third Edition, includes 350,000 entries and meanings. You can also reference the 'front of the book' material online.Hyperdictionary
A free online dictionary, including medical and computer terms, as well as dream interpretations for the terms you search on.Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary
Online search utility.The Oxford English Dictionary, the leading authority on the history and development of the English language since 1150, will be available online starting in March of 2000. This includes all twenty volumes of the OED and three volumes of additions.
OneLook Dictionaries
A dictionary look-up that searches for your word in over 200 dictionaries.
WWWebster Dictionary
Based on Merriam-Webster's Collegiate® Dictionary, Tenth Edition.
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Roget’s II: The New Thesaurus
35,000 synonyms in an easy-to-use format that eschews the traditionally classified or category-indexed thesaurus of old. It also contains succinct definitions as well as synonyms, and numerous cross-references.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations
9th edition. John Bartlett’s classic collection of 9,000 passages, phrases and proverbs traces their sources in ancient and modern literature by means of 2,000 footnotes.Simpson’s Contemporary Quotations
Provides over 10,000 quotes from over 4000 sources, including 25 categories of quotes, and 60 sections, ranging from “love” to “criminology.” Full, concise information is given for each quotation, including source, date, and occasion.
Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection
More than 230,000 maps from around the world, including historical maps.
Infoplease.com
A collection of searchable almanacs. You can add their search box to your site if you like.
Cognito
Free trial of student research service.Columbia Encyclopedia
Sixth Edition. 50,000 article entries, 40,000 bibliographic citations, and over 80,000 cross-reference entries. The entire database is full-text searchable.Wikipedia
A multilingual, freely editable and free-content encyclopedia. Because of it's dynamic nature, you're likely to find up-to-date topics. You can both view and edit content, in many languages.
Library of Congress Z39.50 Gateway
Access the Library of Congress card catalog, as well as many others.
Acronym Finder
A searchable database containing common acronyms and abbreviations about all subjects, with a focus on computers, technology, telecommunications and the military.Acronym Server
A Magellan 3-star site. Both legit and tongue-in-cheek acronyms, for when you just don't know what that acronym means, and the translation is due at the crack of dawn.
Infoseek People and Business
Email, toll-free numbers, and Zip codes.Measuring Units Conversion Tables
World Time Zones
Now, wouldn't it be nice if the client could remember your time zone?
The Dictionaries at Princeton University
Frank Dietz's Glossary Links
1,500 links to all sorts of glossaries.Gilles Dignard's List of Dictionaries
GlossPost
GlossPost is a list of URLs for translators, interpreters, terminologists and technical writers. Nice, clean system allowing for posting Internet glossaries you've found or seeking. No chat, no ads, just links.Language Dictionaries and Translation
Lexicool
Very nice searchable database of bilingual and multilingual dictionaries. Nice clean interface, offered free of charge, and you may propose dictionaries to be added. You can even copy code into your Web site to include their search box.
The Libraries of Purdue University
Plenty of online dictionaries linked here.
Martin Ramsch's Bookmark Collection
A collection of German and English-centric dictionary bookmarks.Pedro's Dictionaries
Pedro compiled this list, and even tells us what kind of site it is.Xlation
Links to over 1,000 glossaries with automatic updating.A Web of Online Dictionaries
Includes online grammars, thesauri, and foreign language dictionaries.
Eurodicautom
Translate terms in eight languages.
The Logos Dictionary
Logos Translation has made their in-house glossaries available to everyone at no charge. Includes a word exchange forum, and a special section for professionals. Terms entered are checked by the in-house terminologists.
Multilingual dictionaries
An award-winning site, heavy on German references.Multilingual Dictionaries in PDF
Demos of PDF dictionaries: Business & Finance (En-Fr-Ge-Ru), Stock Exchange & Investment Terms, (En-Fr-Ge-It-Sp-Ru), Int'l Banking & Finance Acronyms and Abbreviations (En-Ru), Dictionary of Computing (En-Ru).Pedro's Dictionaries
Pedro compiled this list, and even tells us what kind of site it is.Yahoo! Language Dictionaries
The search engine brings you an up-to-date list of registered language dictionaries.
- Business/Financial updated!
- Computer updated!
- Legal
- Literary
- Medical
- Technical
- Miscellaneous
For language-specific dictionaries, please see Language-Specific Resources
InvestorWords
A financial glossary with over 5,000 definitions and 15,000 links between related terms.New York Mercantile Exchange glossary
Personal Finance Glossary
Monolingual (English) explanations of over 700 terms relating to personal finance and loans.
FOLDOC: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
Microsoft has replaced its individual product glossaries with a single CSV file free for the downloading. This new CSV file contains over 14,000 English terms plus the translations of the terms for up to 45 different languages.
The Complete Glossary of Insurance Coverage Explanations©
FreePatentsOnline
A collection of US patents in PDF. These patents can be downloaded for free, but contain images of the patents, not the text.The Law Guru
A comprehensive site with law libraries and online tools.Legal Explanations.com
Over 2,500 legal definitions written in plain English.
U.S. Patent and Trademark Office
Used most commonly for patent searches, but also great for gleaning wording.U.S. House of Representatives Internet Law Library
WashLAW
Full text index for law journals from the Washburn University School of Law. Includes several international journals.
Biological Sciences Virtual Reference Desk
University of New Hampshire.
The Centers for Disease Control
Health and Cancer dictionary
From Natural Vitamins of New Zealand.Health-related Terminology in Cyberspace
Glossaries on many fields from the World Health Organization.Medical and Surgical Terminology
Oodles of monolingual medical information (and there are also links to español dictionaries)
Beer Terminology
From Sam Adams--beware, no underage translators allowed!Bioenergy Glossary
An authoritative glossary of bioenergy terminology in Finnish, English, German and Russian.Bosch Encyclopedia of Technical Terms
German, French and Spanish translation of technical termsComputer Currents High-Tech Dictionary
EuroDico Glass Technical Terms Translator (CS-DE-EN-ES-FR-IT-NL-SV)
A glossary of terms and expressions relating to glass production.Multilingual Glossary of technical and popular medical terms in nine European Languages
A comprehensive list for translation purposes, brought to you by the European Commission.
ITU Telecommunication Terminology Database (TERMITE)
Searchable 56,000-word English/French/Spanish/Russian technical terminology database.
Dictionnaire multilingue du cheval
Dictionary of the Horse in English/French/German/Spanish. Interface is French.
LANTRA-L
The granddaddy of mailing lists for translators. See the guide/FAQ, and the archives.The Internet Search Tutorial for Translators
Manon Bergeron and and Manten van Steenbergen developed this online tutorial to teach you how to find those terms on the Net. In English and French.The Word Detective
The online version of The Word Detective, a newspaper column answering readers' questions about words and language.
Interuniversity Consortium for Political and Social Research
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