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Print resources are available in all University Libraries. To search the Saint Louis Universtiy Libraries Catalog by subject for English language dictionaries or thesauruses use English Language--Dictionaries. To find dictionaries for specific languages search by language with subdivision of Dictionaries. For example, French Language--Dictionaries or Russian Language--Dictionaries. To find dictionaries for specific topics search by topic with subdivision of Dictionaries. For example, Law--Dictionaries, Computers--Dictionaries, Medicine--Dictionaries, or Science--Dictionaries.
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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th ed.
http://www.bartleby.com/61/
This unabridged dictionary from Houghton Mifflin, 2000, and Bartleby.com, 2000, contains over 350,000 entries. Search by entry word or full text.
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American National Standards Telecommunications: Telecom Glossary 2000
http://www.atis.org/tg2k/
From the T1 Committee of the American National Standards Institute, this dictionary includes definitions and abbreviations for telecommunications related words and concepts.
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ArtLex Visual Arts Dictionary
http://www.artlex.com/
Compiled and maintained by Michael Delahunt, an elementary school art teacher, this site currently contains definitions for over 3,600 terms. Longer articles are given for movements and styles. Names of artists and paintings appear only within definitions. They do not have individual entries. Links to artist and painting names connect to various museum and gallary sites.
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Babel Fish Translation
http://babelfish.altavista.com/translate.dyn
Enter words, phrases, sentences, or the URL of a Web page, and Babel Fish will translate it from English to French, Spanish, Portuguese, Chinese, Italian, Japanese, Korean, or German. English can be translated into the same languages. Also translates from German to French and French to German.
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Bartlett, John Russell. 1848. Dictionary of Americanisms
http://www.merrycoz.org/voices/bartlett/BARTLETT.HTM
Provides a record of the "colloquial language of the United States" during the first half of the 19th century. This is the first edition that contains words and phrases such as "strong drink", "sanctimoniouslyfied", "absquatulate", "acknowledge the corn", "finefied", and "red dog money" along with short essays including definition and usage of each.
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BioTech Life Science Dictionary
http://biotech.icmb.utexas.edu/search/dict-search.html
From the University of Texas Institute for Cellular and Molecular Biology, this dictionary's currently over 8,300 terms cover biochemistry, biotechnology, botany, cell biology and genetics along with some terms from ecology, limnology, pharmacology, toxicology and medicine. However, specific animals, plants, and chemicals or drugs are not included. Instead users are directed to other sites for information about these living things or chemical substances.
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Dictionaries & Translation Sites
http://www.lib.utexas.edu/refsites/dictionaries.html
From the University of Texas at Austin Library Online, this site provides links to online language and specialized dictionaries as well as other language sites.
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Duhaime's Law Dictionary
http://www.duhaime.org/diction.htm
Written in plain language and provided free-of-charge by Lloyd Duhaime, a Canadian lawyer. Browse by letter of the alphabet.
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FOLDOC: Free On-Line Dictionary of Computing
http://foldoc.org/
Type in a term and its definition with internal links appears.
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Foreign Languages for Travelers
http://travlang.com/languages/search.html
Enter words or phrases that might be used when traveling. This site will give you some options in many languages.
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the GLOSSARIST: A searchable glossary dictionary
http://www.glossarist.com/
A collection of glossaries and subject dictionaries available on the Web. Search for a term or browse by category.
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Glossary of Internet Terms
http://www.matisse.net/files/glossary.html
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High-Tech Dictionary
http://www.computeruser.com/resources/dictionary/index.html
From ComputerUser.com, this dictionary provides explanations for computer and Web terms.
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Medical Dictionary
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/mplusdictionary.html
The dictionary available on the MEDLINEplus Health Information site is the Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary.
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Merriam-Webster OnLine: The Language Center
http://www.m-w.com/dictionary.html
Use the World Wide Web edition of Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, Tenth Edition and/or their World Wide Web thesaurus.
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MetaGlossary.com: meaningful results
http://www.metaglossary.com/
A search engine that provides definitions for words and phrases along with explanations retrieved from the Web. Below each definition/explanation is a list of Web links to related Web sites. Also includes for acronyms.
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Roget’s II: The New Thesaurus, 3rd ed.
http://www.bartleby.com/62/
From Bartleby.com this is Houghton Mifflin's 1996 thesaurus and Bartleby.com's 2000 thesaurus. This electronic version contains 35,000 synonyms in addition to short definitions. Search for a word or browse the alphabetical arrangement.
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RymeZone
http://www.rhymezone.com/
From Lycos, enter a word, and this program returns words that rhyme with it by number of syllables. Also finds synonyms, homophones, sound-alike words, phrases and related words or search for pictures.
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TravLang Translating Dictionaries
http://dictionaries.travlang.com/
Provides a selection of electronic language dictionaries to translate words to and from.
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Visual Dictionary Online
http://visual.merriam-webster.com/
From Merriam-Webster, browse by major themes such as Astronomy, Earth, Animal Kingdom, Human Being, Communications, etc. to see the objects words represent. Audio pronunciation is available for each word or phrase.
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WordNet - a Lexical Database for English
http://www.cogsci.princeton.edu/~wn/
Developed by the Cognitive Science Laboratory at Princeton University under the direction of George A. Miller, Ph.D, this resource organizes "English nouns, verbs, adjectives and adverbs. . . into synonym sets, each representing one underlying lexical concept. Different relations link the synonym sets."
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yourDictionary.com
http://www.yourdictionary.com/languages.html
Begun in 1995 as A Web of On-line Dictionaries by Robert E. Beard, PhD, a faculty member of the Russian Department and the Linguistics Program at Bucknell University, this site has now grown to more than 1,500 dictionaries representing more than 260 languages and is a "comprehensive, and authoritative portal for language, and language-related products and services on the world wide web." (text from site 12/18/00)
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Last updated December 20, 2007. |
