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Ready Reference Dictionaries
- Conversion Tools
- ConvertIt.com
- A highly useful conversion site, includes all sorts of nifty tools.
- Online Conversion.com
- A one stop shopping type of site with all the conversion tools you could possibly want or need.
- Measuring Units Conversion Tables
- site provided by "IFP", includes length, mass, area, volume/capacity, and temperature conversion machines.
- Business Related
- Investopedia
- Searchable, database of finance and investment terms. Categories for terms include mutual funds, options and futures, retirement plans as well as acronyms, buzz words, and new economy terms. Also features the Investopedia University, a sizeable collection of tutorials and articles from the editors of Investopedia and outside sources.
- InvestorWords
- a glossary of over 5,000 investment terms. Browseable by alphabetical order as well as by term or definition.
- General Usage/Literature & Writing Resources
- Acronym and Abbreviation List
- Enter an acronym and get the possible meanings. Very large, although not as
- comprehensive as some print resources.
- Acronym Finder
- 52,000 acronyms/abbreviations and their meanings.
- American HeritageŽ Book of English Usage
- A Practical and Authoritative Guide to Contemporary English, 1996.
- American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
- Unabridged, 3rd edition.
- American Sign Language Browser
- This site uses QuickTime so you MUST have it loaded on your machine. On the left is a list of the words that you can "view" and a movie opens in the window to show you how to make the words in ASL.
- Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase & Fable
- From the 1894 work of the same name; this is extensively cross-referenced, and
- excellent for phrases which have their roots in literature or mythology.
- Cambridge International Dictionaries Online
- Search the Cambridge International Dictionary of American English, Int'l Dictionary of English, Int'l Dictionary
of Idioms, and Cambridges Int'l Dictionary of Phrasal Verbs.
- Carnegie Mellon Pronouncing Dictionary
- "The Carnegie Mellon University Pronouncing Dictionary is a machine-readable pronunciation dictionary for North
American English that contains over 100,000 words and their transcriptions." (from the CMU Pronouncing Dict. website)
- Devil's
Dictionary
- Published in 1911, Ambrose Bierce's whimsical collection of definitions.
- Dictionary.com
- Site includes Roget's Thesaurus, dictionary, a translator from english-to- , and various other language dictionaries.
- EuroDicAutom
- Searches for terms in several European Languages at once.
- ForeignWord
- This site is full of useful utilities for translating words, definitions, and lots more.
- Handspeak: A Sign Language Dictionary
- Features approximately 2,800 signs and added to regularly. Visitors can use a search engine to find American Sign
Language (ASL) signs for words or browse by an alphabetical index as well as by a limited subject index. Also included here are four fables told in sign language, a description of International Sign Language (ISL), and some brief, bullet-point discussions of SL culture and language. Note: the signs are demonstrated in stop-action
GIF animation, so users need browsers that support this application.
- Internet Public Library Word & Phrase Origins Pathfinder
- Extensive directory of reference sources.
- The King's English
- by Fowler, H. W. 1908, 2nd ed.
- Merriam-Webster Online
- Includes a dictionary, thesaurus, word-of-the-day, word game, etc.
- OneLook Dictionaries
- Search 109 online dictionaries simultaneously for your term.
- Online Glossaries, Dictionaries, and Encyclopedias
- Includes 600+ links to glossaries, etc. on various topics. Extensive
- site done by Steven Baum, Dept. of Oceanography, Texas A & M University.
- Oxford English Dictionary (OED)
- Requires LSU ID to log in
- Research-It!
- Interesting table-oriented index of almost every kind of online reference tool you could/would/should ever want. Includes dictionaries of several different varieties, quote finders, translators, a thesaurus, mapfinders, financial searchers, and mailing trackers.
- Rhyming Dictionary
- Enter your word and find perfect matches, matching last sounds, or homophones.
- Roget's II Thesaurus
- Provided by the folks at Bartleby.com.
- Sports Glossaries
- Browse or search glossaries of terms for Soccer, Ice Hockey, Football, and Basketball. Glossaries contain many cross-references.
- Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- From the ATRFL Project. 1913 edition.
- Wordorigins.org (formally Wilton's Etymology Page)
- Etymology is the study of word origins. Here you will find the origins of many colorful and interesting words and phrases. Includes a short "History of the English Language".
- Xrefer
- Internet meta-search engine for reference materials, including dictionaries, encyclopedias, thesaurii, more.
- YourDictionary.com
- Science & Technology Dictionaries
- Dictionary of PC Hardware & Data Communications Terms
- From the people at O'Reillys. "This comprehensive dictionary provides complete descriptions of complex terms in
two of the most volatile and interesting areas of computer development: personal computers and networks. It contains
up-to-date information about everything from a common item like "batteries" to an obscure font technology called "Speedo."
- Glossary of Genetics Terms
- Sponsored by the National Human Genome Research institute. Includes an
- alphabetical list and a search function.
- IUPAC Compendium of Chemical Terminology
- Put together by the Royal Society of Chemistry and hosted by Chemsoc, this is a searchable online version of the
"Gold Book", including over 7000 terms.
- Medterms.com
- Published by MedicineNet.com, this site includes over 9000 terms, abbreviations, syndromes, eponyms, and more related to the bio-medical sciences.
- Merck Manual of Medical Information - Home Edition
- The full-text, searchable consumer edition of the famous Merck Manual of Diagnosis and Therapy ("the textbook of
medicine most widely used by health care professionals in the U.S. and worldwide"), written in everyday language for
non-health care professionals.
- Dictionary of Storage Networking Technology
- The members of the Storage Networking Industry Association have collaborated to create this Dictionary of Storage and Storage Networking Terminology. This dictionary thus represents the storage networking industry's most comprehensive attempt to date to arrive at a common body of terminology for the technologies it represents. Most of the terms in this dictionary have meaning primarily in specific sub-contexts of storage networking, such as SCSI or Storage Systems. Wherever this is true, the primary context(s) for the term are noted between the term itself and its definition. Terms that do not have one or more contexts identified are generally applicable data processing industry terms.
