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- AItaVista's Babel
Fish - Need a quick translation of a foreign word or passage? Babel
Fish will translate from Chinese, French, German, Italian or Japanese into
English, or vice versa. The free site can handle several paragraphs at once and
even entire Web pages; although the translations are by no means perfect,
they're pretty readable.
- Merriam-Webster Online
- If you're tired of surfing word pages and want to go straight for the
meat-and-potatoes of dictionaries, this site's for you. You can look up words
in Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, l0th edition, and its
Thesaurus simultaneously, or you can kick back with the Word Game of the Day.
- Refdesk.com - The
granddaddy of all reference sites, Refdesk.com is a great place to begin almost
any kind of research. Search the Facts Subject Index for information on
everything from grammar to genealogy, or check out the thousands of carefully
selected links to other reference sites (including the Library of Congress's
guide to online legal information and Emily Post's etiquette tips).
- Thesaurus.com -
This online word-finder offers the obvious - a huge database of synonyms and
antonyms - as well as the not so obvious: free downloads of software that
interfaces with most applications and enables you to look up a word from within
the application (often just by clicking on it!). The grammar and punctuation
guides are also worth a look, as is the word-of the-day e-mail service.
- THOR -The
Online Resource Looking for a Russian dictionary that pronounces the words for
you? A glossary of nuclear terms? THOR (The Online Resource) offers links to
all the reference works you knew you needed, as well as a few you didn't but
may find useful-or at least intriguing.
- Xrefer - With more
than 50 cross- referenced sources featuring over 500,000 entries, Xrefer is the
place to go if you if you don't have a lot of time to search around. Type in a
word and you'll get links to entries from titles as diverse as The Oxford
Companion to English Literature, The Penguin Rhyming
Dictionary and The Oxford University Press Dictionary of
Medicines.
- YourDictionary.com - This site
links to dictionaries and thesauruses for more than 250 languages, as well as a
number of translation sites. If you're searching for just the right word in
Samoan (or Kurdish, Gaelic or Zoque), this is probably where you'll find it.
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