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The Acronym Finder is a searchable database of more
than 253,000 abbreviations and acronyms about computers, technology,
telecommunications, and military acronyms and abbreviations. |
| The American
Heritage Dictionary of the English Language |
This site on Bartleby contains more than 90,000
entries, 70,000 audio pronunciations, and 900 color illustrations.
Besides entry word and full text, several types of additional searches
are also available. |
| Anagram
Server |
A fun online tool that creates anagrams from any word
or phrase you type in. |
| Bartleby.com |
Internet publisher of literature, reference and verse,
providing students, researchers and the intellectually curious with
unlimited access to books and information on the web, free of charge. |
| Bartlett's
Familar Quotations |
A collection of passages, phrases, and proverbs traced
to their sources in ancient and modern literature. By John Bartlett. |
| Etymology
Dictionary |
The etymologies are compiled in alphabetical order and
parsed into smaller sections for easy viewing. |
| Famous
Quotes and Quotations |
A collection of famous quotes organized by subject.
Mainly positive or humorous quotes suitable to use for speeches, web
sites, cards, and celebrations. |
| IdiomSite.com |
This website provides an alphabetical listing of
idioms. An explanation of the origin of the idiom and its meaning is
provided for each term or phrase. This site is part of the bored.com
network which offers links to games, humor and a variety of other
interesting sites.. |
| Merriam-Webster
Online Language Center |
This is an online dictionary site. For those used to
the digital format, this is as easy a way as any to look up the
definition of a word. There's the dictionary, the thesaurus, and then
there's the "unabridged" field in which you can look for a
definition of more obscure words. |
| OneLook Dictionaries |
Instead of a single dictionary, OneLook indexes 750
dictionaries and more than four million words. |
| Oxymoron List |
The largest list of oxymorons ever collected online. |
| Pseudodictionary:
The Dictionary for Words That Wouldn't Make It Into Dictionaries |
Anyone can submit a term to this slang dictionary which
currently consists of almost 10,000 words. |
| Song
Quotes: Rock Wisdom |
An online reference book of over 12,000 song quotes,
arranged by broad topics and searchable by keyword and artist. |
| The Quotations
Page |
Browse over 20,000 quotations searchable by author or
subject. |
| Quote Me On It... |
An ever-growing collection of over 14,000 quotes
organized by subject and author. |
| Rhyming Dictionary
and Thesaurus |
Plug in the word you need to rhyme to, and you'll
receive options. |
| Roget's
Thesaurus |
Peter Roget was a physician at the Manchester
Infirmary. As a young man he began to compile a simple wordlist for his
own use and during his lifetime he continued to improve and add to it.
In 1852 he published his Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases, a
collection of words and phrases arranged according to ideas rather than
alphabetically. This website provides a free online version of this
amazing work. |
| Webster's
Online Dictionary The Rosetta Edition |
Search the earth's largest dictionary with over 3
million words and expressions across 30 modern and 10 ancestral
languages. |
| Wisdom Quotes |
Quotations for a variety of occasions. This collection
includes quotations that shed light, help keep perspective, inspire,
energize, or just make people think. |
| Your
Dictionary |
Your Dictionary provides the most comprehensive and
authoritative portal for language and language-related products and
services on the web with more than 1800 dictionaries covering 250
languages. |
