Dictionaries, Encyclopedias, and Place Names
December 1, 2004
Foreign Language Dictionaries
Czech-English on-line dictionary
http://dictionaries.travlang.com/CzechEnglish/
This dictionary database is from the freeware multilingual program Ergane. It contains 1,900 terms. It is easy to use and free of charge.
English-Czech on-line dictionary
http://dictionaries.travlang.com/EnglishCzech/
This dictionary database is from the freeware multilingual program Ergane. It contains 1,900 terms. It is easy to use and free of charge.
Finnish-English on-line dictionary
http://dictionaries.travlang.com/FinnishEnglish/
This dictionary database is from the freeware multilingual program Ergane. It contains 1,800 terms. It is easy to use and free of charge.
English-Finnish on-line dictionary
http://dictionaries.travlang.com/EnglishFinnish/
This dictionary database is from the freeware multilingual program Ergane. It contains 1,800 terms. It is easy to use and free of charge.
English-Finnish-English online dictionary
http://efe.scape.net/
This dictionary searches for any entry in both directions. It is easy to use and free of charge.
ARTFL Project: French-English French Dictionary Form
http://humanities.uchicago.edu/orgs/ARTFL/forms_unrest/FR-ENG.html
This dictionary searches for any entry in both directions. It is free, simple and contains about 75,000 terms.
German-English-German dictionary
http://dict.tu-chemnitz.de/dings.cgi?searchform=1&noframes=0
This dictionary searches for any entry in both directions. It is a simple dictionary based on a wordlist of about 140,000 entries. This service is provided by TU Chemnitz and it is free of charge.
The New English-German Dictionary
http://www.iee.et.tu-dresden.de/cgi-bin/cgiwrap/wernerr/search.sh/
This dictionary searches for any entry in both directions. It contains about 190,000 words.
This is a reference database, not a translator. It is simple to use and free of charge.
Greek-English
http://www.arts.cuhk.edu.hk/Lexis/Latin/
The search can also be done using the Roman alphabets and Ancient Greek by selecting the appropriate checkbox. It is simple to use and free of charge.
Free Online Bi-directional English-Japanese Dictionary
http://dict.pspinc.com/
This dictionary searches for any entry in both directions. The dictionary is not designed to accept romanized Japanese input. It is easy to use.
Latin-English dictionary
http://www.arts.cuhk.edu.hk/Lexis/Latin/
This dictionary searches for any entry in both directions. This dictionary covers about 8,000 headwords. It is easy to use and free of charge.
Spanish-English
http://tairona.apana.org.au/es/
This dictionary searches for any entry in both directions. It contains more than 60,000 words, and is free of charge.
Swedish-English- Swedish dictionary
http://www.foreignword.com/dictionary/Swedish/default.htm
This dictionary searches for any entry in both directions. It is easy to use, and is free of charge.
English Language Dictionaries:
American-British, British-American Dictionary
http://www.peak.org/~jeremy/dictionary/dictionary/
It provides a useful reference for the Briton in America and the American in Britain. The dictionary has two halves: American to British, where the explanation and definitions of American words are in British, and British to American, where British words are explained in American terminology and spellings. This dictionary is intended to be used by Americans translating British, and Britons translating American. It is easy to use and free of charge.
BritSpeak dictionary
http://englishclub.8m.com/ukus1.htm
This free dictionary searches for any entry in both directions. Many of the words in this dictionary are colloquialisms.
Hypertext Webster Gateway: Merriam Webster
http://www.bennetyee.org/http_webster.cgi
This hypertext Webster interface provides access to various dictionary services on the Internet. Users of this free service type the word for which they want the definition, click to select either an exact match or an approximate match, and then click on the "Look up definition" button. Words are then hypertext linked back into the dictionary.
OneLook Dictionaries
http://www.onelook.com/
This free search engine provides access to words’ definitions or translations. The OneLook search engine indexes more than 4 million words in more than 800 online dictionaries.
Encyclopedias
Encyclopedia Smithsonian
http://www.si.edu/resource/faq/
It provides answers to frequently asked questions about the Smithsonian with links to resources on subjects from Art to Zoology. It is free of charge.
Encyclopedia.com. Electric Library
http://www.encyclopedia.com/
This free encyclopedia provides users with more than 57,000 frequently updated articles from the Columbia Encyclopedia,6th Edition. Each article is linked to newspaper and magazine articles as well as pictures and maps - all provided by eLibrary. From the web site:
“eLibrary is the comprehensive digital archive for information seekers of all ages. You can search across 13 million documents from full-text newspaper and magazine articles, television and radio transcripts, international newswires, classic books, maps, photographs, as well as major works of literature, art and reference books. You'll find both current and historical events within the diverse eLibrary archive.”
PC Webopedia
http://www.pcwebopedia.com/
From the web site: "Webopedia is a free online dictionary for words, phrases and abbreviations that are related to computer and Internet technology." Webopedia provides definitions to wide range of computer knowledge. "In addition to a definition of the term or phrase, Webopedia also provides links to sources of further information on the topic where applicable. Webopedia is part of the internet.com network of Web sites owned and managed by Jupitermedia Corporation.”
TechEncyclopedia
http://www.techweb.com/encyclopedia/
It covers over 13,000 definitions of computer technical terms and concepts from CMP's TechWeb. It is free of charge.
Place Names
Australian geographic place names (Gazetteer)
http://www.ga.gov.au/map/names/
Canada’s official geographic names web site
http://geonames.nrcan.gc.ca/search/search_e.php
New Zealand Geographic Place-Names Database
http://www.linz.govt.nz/rcs/linz/pub/web/root/core/Placenames/SearchPlaceNames/searchplacenames/index.jsp
GEOnet Names Server (GNS)
http://gnswww.nga.mil/geonames/GNS/index.jsp
Official source of U.S. geographic names from the Census Bureau. U.S.
http://www.census.gov/cgi-bin/gazetteer
Ordnance Survey--gazetteer of place names (U.K.)
http://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/oswebsite/freefun/didyouknow/
Thesaurus of Geographic Names (Getty Information Institute)
http://www.getty.edu/research/conducting_research/vocabularies/tgn/
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