Dictionaries

Dictionaries and Online Writing Resources

• Acronym Finder - Searchable database of 80,000+ acronyms and meanings. Covers: common acronyms, computers, technology, government, telecommunications, and military acronyms.
• Alan Cooper's All About Homonyms - The raw material for puns.
• The Alternative Dictionaries. Web address: http://www.notam.uio.no/~hcholm/altlang/
• Acronym Finder: A searchable database containing common acronyms and abbreviations about all subjects, with a focus on computers, technology, telecommunications, and the military. Web address: http://www.AcronymFinder.com/

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• The Book of Cliches - A compilation of common phrases, euphemisms, and rationales for times of trouble.
• Cirque de Cliche - The Cirque de Cliche is a worker-owned cooperative striving to offer the public best of breed cliches whose wide acceptance will lift the American figure of speech industry out of its current doldrums and drive a renewed period of vigorous growth.
• Cliche Finder
• 2000 Cliches - 2000 English (English) Cliches and Figures of Speech, with some notes on their use in a literary sense.

• Database of American Proprietary Eponyms - An eponym is a general term used to describe from what or whom something derived its name. Therefore, a proprietary eponym could be considered a brand name (product or service mark) which has fallen into general use.
• Deadwood Phrases - Prune the deadwood phrases from your writing.
• Dictionary.com: Easy definitions. Web address: http://www.dictionary.com/

• Familiar Quotations: John Bartlett's Familiar Quotations (9th ed.), with full search capabilities. Web address: http://www.cc.columbia.edu/acis/bartleby/bartlett/
• Famous Quotes and Quotations: A collection of quotes links.

• The Literary Dictionary - an assortment of words that first made an appearance in books, plays, poems, comic strips and mythology.

• Merriam-Webster OnLine: Look up a definition, pronunciation, etymology, spelling, or usage point in the WWWebster Dictionary. Web address: http://www.m-w.com/

• Net Lingo: The Internet Language Dictionary: Online dictionary contains definitions of hundreds of words that are emerging as a new vocabulary surrounding the technology and community of the Internet and the World Wide Web. Web address: http://www.netlingo.com/

• OneLook Dictionaries: more than 3 millions words in in more than 600 dictionaries currently indexed. The Faster Finder allows a search of a multitude of online dictionaries by specific category. Web address: http://www.onelook.com/

• Phrase Finder: Excellent. Give it a single word and it will give you a list of phrases and sayings that are related to the word in some way. Web address: http://www.shu.ac.uk/web-admin/phrases/
• Plumb Design Visual Thesaurus: Accesses data from the WordNet database, a publicly available resource developed by the Cognitive Science Laboratory at Princeton University. This database, first created in 1985 as a dictionary based on psycholinguistic theories, contains over 50,000 words and 40,000 phrases collected into more than 70,000 sense meanings. Web address: http://www.plumbdesign.com/thesaurus/

• Quotations Page. Find all sorts of quotes. Web address: http://www.quotationspage.com/

• Ready Reference Using the Internet: Consists, with a few exceptions, of full-text sources and data suitable for ready reference. Web address: http://www.winsor.edu/library/rref.htm
• Rhetorical Figures - From alliteration to zeugma, and everything in between, all the figures of speech are here.
• RhymeZone. – use it to find rhymes, synonyms, definitions, and more. Web address: http://www.rhymezone.com/
• Roget's Thesaurus : The ARTFL Project Roget's Thesaurus allows searches of headwords or full text of Roget's Thesaurus (version 1.02), released to the public domain by MICRA and the Gutenberg Project. Web address: http://humanities.uchicago.edu/forms_unrest/ROGET.html

• Thesaurus.com: Easy index and word locator. Web address: http://www.thesaurus.com

• Words Web sites that feature various dictionaries, thesauri, phrase finders, research aids, bibliographies and research paper writing standards, focusing on misused words, Latin and Greek derivations, unusual words, word origins, new words and slang -- plus sections on spelling and vocabulary
• Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus: Billed as "the ONLY integrated English dictionary and thesaurus in electronic form." Question of the Month and Words of the week. Web address: http://www.wordsmyth.net/
• Hypertext Webster Interface
• Webster Dictionary Search - Search for your word in Webster's online.
• WWWebster Dictionary: From Merriam-Webster. Web address: http://www.m-w.com/netdict.htm
• Online Dictionaries, Thesauri, Encyclopedias

Dictionary links:

• Online Dictionaries, Glossaries and Encyclopedias - Enormous and varied links to online encyclopedias, great site.
• An index of On-Line Dictionaries: Dictionaries, grammars, linguistics, morphology ... is a fantastic resource with links to more than 400 dictionaries in more than 130 languages. Web address: http://www.bucknell.edu/~rbeard/diction.html
• University of Texas Undergraduate Writing Center Listing of Dictionaries and Thesauruses. Web address: http://www.utexas.edu/depts/uwc/.html/dictionary.html

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