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Search the BUCCAT Library Catalog to find encyclopedias and dictionaries in the library's collections--both print and online. Use keywords such as dictionary, glossary, lexicon, or encyclopedia; add a word like psychology, chemistry, or engineering to find subject-specific reference works.
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Credo Reference: Includes encyclopedias, dictionaries, thesauri, and books of quotations, as well as subject-specific titles covering topics from art to accountancy and literature to law.
Funk & Wagnall's New World Encyclopedia: Contains over 25,000 encyclopedic entries. Searchable by subject or keywords within the entry.
Gale Virtural Reference Library: Searchable full text of reference books in subjects including business, environment, history, medicine, multicultural studies, religion, and science.
OED Online (Oxford English Dictionary): English language words from the earliest records of written language to the present day. Includes over 2 million dated quotations from English language history literature and records and facts concerning word forms, changes, and etymology.
- See also the OED Historical Thesaurus and navigate the English language by concept, explore the history of words, and find related terms.
Oxford Reference Online: 100 language and subject dictionaries and reference works. Includes general reference sources on language, science and medicine, humanities, social sciences. and business and professional topics.
World Book Advanced: General encyclopedia with 26,000+ articles, plus 12,000+ pictures and maps, 100+ videos and animations, and 10,000 sounds (including pronunciations). Includes World Book Dictionary with 248,000 definitions, World Book Atlas with 750 maps, and full text primary source documents, major literary works, and selected recent articles from magazines.
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ENGLISH LANGUAGE DICTIONARIES
FOREIGN LANGUAGE DICTIONARIES
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DictSearch: Search in 132 online dictionaries. Translate from 56 source languages into 58 target languages - almost 300 language combinations.
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Free Translation: Computer-generated free translations of both text and web pages.
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Google Language Tools: Translates material and webpages to and from 51 different languages; also translates Google search interface into many languages.
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Internet Dictionary Project: Translates English words into Italian, French, German, Spanish, Latin, or Portuguese; or from those languages into English.
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Lexicool: Meta-searches 7000+ bilingual and multilingual dictionaries and glossaries freely available online.
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Online Dictionaries and Translators: Provides links to online dictionaries or translators in languages from Ahmeric to Nepali to Zarma and every language in between.
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TravLang's Translating Dictionaries: Translations from many different languages, including English to foreign language and foreign language-to-foreign language translations.
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WordReference: online language dictionaries--English to French, Italian, Spanish, German, and more.
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Yahoo! Babel Fish Translation Service: Translate a block of text or an entire website in over ten different languages.
GENERAL ENCYCLOPEDIAS
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OTHER DICTIONARIES
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Abbreviations.com: Directory of acronymns and abbreviations.
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AF: Acronym Finder: Searchable database of more than 475,000 abbreviations and acronyms about computers, technology, telecommunications, and military acronyms and abbreviations.
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American Sign Language Video Dictionary
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Basic Dictionary of ASL Terms (American Sign Language: Over 1000 basic ASL signs, as well as the alphabet and numbers. Dictionary includes both animated and text definitions.
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Banished Words: from Lake Superior University. The Annual ‘extreme’ List of Words Banished from the Queen's English for Mis-Use, Over-Use and General Uselessness.
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The Braille Alphabet: Visual representation of the Braille alphabet.
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The Glossarist: Comprehensive directory with over 4,500 glossaries, 679 of which have been cataloged into 130 categories. Searchable by keyword or browse for a glossary by topic (and then category).
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Rhyming Dictionary: Find words that rhyme with, almost rhyme with, or sound exactly the same as a certain target word, or find words that approximate or have the same meaning as an intended concept.
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Urban Dictionary: Online dictionary of contemporary slang.
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Visual Dictionary Online: 6,000 illustrations with twenty-thousand full definitions representing all aspects of life.
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Worldnet Vocabulary Helper: An English lexical database.
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Wordia: online textual dictionary. VIDEOS.
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Wordnik: Website with definitions with example of words in context, information about frequency and use patterns, related words, and more
OTHER REFERENCE RESOURCES
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WolframAlpha: Look up factual data of all sorts in all subjects and disciplines.
SPECIALTY ENCYCLOPEDIAS
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