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Dictionaries
- AskOxford — Search the compact Oxford English Dictionary
- Encyclopedia.com — A free online encyclopedia, Encyclopedia.com features premier titles like The Columbia Encyclopedia, Oxford’s World Encyclopedia, and the Encyclopedia of World Biography. Dictionaries range from the general purpose Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English, to social science terms in A Dictionary of Psychology, to health-related nutrition definitions in A Dictionary of Food Nutrition & more.
- Etymology Dictionary — Etymologies are not definitions; they're explanations of what our words meant and how they sounded 600 or 2,000 years ago.
- Investor Words — Glossary of investing & accounting terms.
- Mango Languages — "The easiest way to learn a foreign language!" Mango is an online learning system that can help you learn languages like Spanish, French, Japanese, Brazilian Portuguese, German, Mandarin Chinese, Greek, Italian, Russian & more. You may create your own login to save and track your progress.
- Medical Dictionary — From MedlinePlus
- Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary
- Net Lingo — A dictionary for Net users that includes net jargon, text messaging acronyms, smileys & emoticons.
- Oxford Dictionaries Pro — Oxford Dictionaries Online is Oxford's innovative modern English dictionary and language reference service which includes writing, grammar, and spelling guidance. Also includes audio pronunciations and thesauruses. You may search specialized dictionaries by subject.
- Oxford English Dictionary Online
- Roget's International Thesaurus of English Words & Phrases — From Bartleby.com - Great Books Online
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Taber's Cyclopedic Medical Disctionay - 21st Ed. (via STATRef!)
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Wolfram|Alpha - a computational knowledge engine
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WOLFRAM|ALPHA uses built-in knowledge curated by human experts to compute on the fly a specific answer to every query. Accepts plain English. Ask questions, find & use calulators & formulas. Graphs and statistics are provided with answers. Includes background information, definitions & links. Mobile & Course Apps to purchase
- WordNet — A lexical database for English.
- Your Dictionary.com — Includes over 2,500 dictionaries and grammars in over 300 languages, dictionary, thesaurus, glossary and reference articles, games that build language skills, and a forum for discussing language issues with the logophile community.
