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Almanac
Daily
Almanac
Information Please
- from the print reference database, offering millions of useful and
interesting facts on a wide range of topics online. Also includes a dictionary and
encyclopedia.
Old Farmer's Almanac - fun and practical information for everyday life, including moon
calendars, planting charts, recipes, weather predictions and more.
Dictionary-English
DICT Development Group - simultaneously search several dictionaries using freely available
client/server software.
Dictionary
of American Regional English - specializes in regional
words and phrases.
Information Please - from the print reference database, offering millions of useful and
interesting facts on a wide range of topics online. Also includes a dictionary and
encyclopedia.
Lexical FreeNet - this program allows you to search for rhymes and relationships between
words and concepts that might never have occurred to you.
Merriam-Webster
Dictionary
Online
Rhyming Dictionary - Retrieve a list of words that rhyme
with a given input word.
Webster's
Dictionary 2.0 - spell checker for WWW documents. Enter a
URL and this program will retrieve the document and spell check it.
Webster's Revised
Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 Edition - an older dictionary,
but with all the common words and a rich source of definitions of obsolete words.
Wordsmyth English
Dictionary-Thesaurus
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Dictionary-Medical
List and Glossary of
Medical Terms - in several European languages.
Medical/Surgical
Word Glossary - FDA approved drugs, devices,
surgical/medical instruments, and procedures.
MedicineNet
Glossary
Medspeak - the ER dictionary.
On-line
Medical Dictionary - OMD is a searchable dictionary of
terms relating to biochemistry, biology, chemistry, medicine, molecular biology, physics,
plant biology, radiobiology, zoology, science and technology.
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Dictionary-Science
Dictionary of
Cell Biology - provides quick access to easily-understood
and cross-referenced definitions.
Dictionary
of Units, A - an explanation of the principal systems of
units, their history, standards, and conversion factors for changing from one to the
other.
Dog
Term Glossary
Glossary of
Satellite Terms
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Encyclopedia
Encyclopedia
Smithsonian - information about a variety of topics, from
Smithsonian Institution sources.
Encyclopedia.com - provides more than 17,000 short articles from the Concise Columbia
Electronic Encyclopedia, Third Edition.
Information Please - from the print reference database, offering millions of useful and
interesting facts on a wide range of topics online. Also includes a dictionary and
encyclopedia.
Internet
Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Jones
Digital Century Update - archive of updated articles that
will be added to future editions of the Jones Multi-Media Encyclopedia CD-ROM reference
work.
Stanford Encyclopedia of
Philosophy
Index -
Encyberpedia - Information website which links together
encyclopedias throughout the internet.
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Thesaurus
WordNet on-line lexical reference where English nouns, verbs, adjectives and
adverbs are organized into synonym sets, each representing one underlying lexical concept.
ARTFL
Project: ROGET Form
Astronomy
Thesaurus - astronomy terms in English, French, German,
Spanish and Italian; all terms cross referenced.
Lexical FreeNet - this program allows you to search for rhymes and relationships between
words and concepts that might never have occurred to you.
NASA
Thesaurus
Plumb Design
Visual Thesaurus - exploration of sense relationships
within the English language. By clicking on words, you follow a thread of meaning,
creating a spatial map of linguistic associations.
Synonyms
Dictionary
Thesaurus
Gopher
Roget's Thesaurus
[thesaurus.com] - of English words and phrases.
Roget's
Thesaurus [city.ac.uk]
Roget's
Thesaurus [nih.gov]
Roget's
Thesaurus Search Form
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