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DICTIONARIES
English Language Dictionaries
American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
http://www.bartleby.com/61/
Fourth edition of this dictionary.
Merriam Webster Online
http://www.m-w.com/netdict.htm
The online versions of the well-known Collegiate dictionary and
thesaurus. Also has links to Word of the Day and Word Games.
World Central
http://www.wordcentral.com/
Easy student dictionary. You can also increase your vocabulary with
the daily buzzword.
Your
Dictionary
YourDictionary.com: THe Global
Language Resource
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Bilingual Dictionaries
DictSearch
http://www.foreignword.com/Tools/dictsrch.htm
Search tool for bilingual translation from and into dozens of
languages.
French-English Dictionary
http://www.french-linguistics.co.uk/dictionary/
Only French to English (no English to French). This site provides not
only definitions but usage examples.
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ESL
Dictionaries
Cambridge Dictionaries
Online
http://dictionary.cambridge.org/
Search beginning, intermedia and advanced dictionaries, and
dictionaries of idioms and phrasal verbs (get on, get off, get around,
etc).
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Quotations
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations
http://www.bartleby.com/100/
Online version of the 10th edition of Bartlett's. (Note: this is an
old edition of Bartlett's and will not have many quotations from the
20th century).
Columbia World of Quotations
http://www.bartleby.com/66/
Search over 65,000 quotations by author or category. Includes
historical quotes as well as quotes through the last decade of the
20th century.
Cliché Finder
http://www.westegg.com/cliche/
Type in a word to get a list of clichés containing that word, e.g.,
"cat" - cat got your tongue?, look what the cat dragged in. You'll
have to look somewhere else, however, for an explanation of what the
cliché means.
The Quotations Page
http://www.quotationspage.com/
Search by word, phrase, author.
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Specialized Dictionaries
Acronym Search
http://www.irs.aber.ac.uk/acronyms/
Search for what the acronyms OPEC, NASA, UNICEF and thousands of
others mean.
A Glossary of Literary Terms
http://www.virtualsalt.com/litterms.htm
Can't find your term in the handbook of rhetorical devices? Look here.
Handbook of Rhetorical Devices
http://www.virtualsalt.com/rhetoric.htm
Look up terms such as alliteration, personifcation, etc.
Latin Phrases Used in English
http://depthome.brooklyn.cuny.edu/classics/englatin.htm
An alphabetical listing of phrases in Latin, with definitions in
English.
Whatis?.com
http://whatis.techtarget.com/
Definitions for thousands of computer and technology-related words and
phrases
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Synonyms & Antonyms (Thesaurus)
Roget's Thesaurus Search Form
http://humanities.uchicago.edu/forms_unrest/ROGET.html
Searchable version of Roget's Thesaurus.
Merriam Webster Online
http://www.m-w.com/netdict.htm
The online version of the Merriam Webster thesaurus. Also has links to
the dictionary, Word of the Day and Word Games.
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