Dictionaries, languages, translation & encyclopaedias
Language portals
- yourDictionary.com. Dictionaries, thesaurus, translation etc.
Dictionaries
- Bartlett's 'Dictionary of Familiar Quotations'.
- Dictionary of Computing, UK.
- English slang dictionary
- French-English Dictionary.
- German/English dictionary.
- Merriam-Webster OnLine dictionary
- Oxford English Dictionary (OED) and submissions.
- People's names at Names.org. Origins, distribution and meaning
- Quotations Literary quotations with links and other resources.
- XRefer, search for the meaning of words in over 50 dictionaries and encyclopaedias.
Languages & translation
- Acronym translations.
- BabelFish. To view an approximated translation of text or a web page, enter the text into the 'Text' box or put the URL in the 'Website' box and select the languages to be translated from and to.
- Google's online 'Translate' for text & 'Dictionary translate' for single words.
- Learn Chinese online at 'Linese'
- Medical terms in nine European Languages, University of Gent.
- Sergei Shevchenko's Russian<>English translation service.
- 'Translator's Workbench' software for translators.
- Tti School of English, London
- Welsh Language courses, University of Wales, Trinity St David and Brown University.
Encyclopaedias
- Encarta
- 'Wikipedia' free Encyclopedia created by its users
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