Revised 10 January 2003. Mountain Data Systems, a Web site development company, offers this database of "common acronyms and abbreviations about computers, technology, telecommunications, and the military...." Enter an acronym and the site provides possible full-word translations (e.g., DIMM is Dual In-line Memory Module or Defense Integrated Material Management), but it does not offer complete definitions. 3 October 2000. Revised 24 April 2006. Currently available in the 4th edition (2000), The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language features more than 90,000 entries, 70,000 audio word pronunciations, 900 full-page color illustrations, language notes and word-root appendixes. It is hosted by the reference Web site, Bartleby.com. 13 January 2003. The publisher of Oxford dictionaries enables searching select dictionaries and thesauri for free. Dictionaries available appear to be the Oxford Paperback Dictionary and Thesaurus, Little Oxford Dictionary of Quotations (queries limited to names), and the Oxford Dictionary of First Names. It seems that only the indexed term (definition, personal name, or quoted individual) is searchable. 14 March 2003. Revised 24 April 2006. Online reference service Bartleby.com offers the 10th edition (1919) of John Bartlett's Familiar Quotations. It contains over 11,000 quotations. Conduct a keyword search to find famous quotations. A special feature--see Quotations in the top pull-down menu--at the site lets you query several collections of quotations, including Bartlett's, The Columbia World of Quotations, Simpson's Contemporary Quotations and Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 23 May 2002. The Bernstein Law Firm offers this dictionary of bankruptcy terms. Arranged alphabetically, each entry provides a brief definition with hyperlinks to related terms. 3 April 2001. Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, London, offers a free database of online reference works. Find quotations, a thesaurus, literature and art. 29 November 1999. Revised 13 May 2005. Cambridge University Press offers several of its fine dictionaries for free. Search the Cambridge Dictionary of American English, Cambridge International Dictionary of Phrasal Verbs, Cambridge Learner's Dictionary and Cambridge International Dictionary of Idioms. Also find the Cambridge Klett Compact, French-English and Spanish-English versions. 6 March 2003. Via a simple search interface, CanQuotes provides access to a "the greatest Canadian quotations, drawn from a database of over 12,000 entries." Search by keyword to retrieve entries in either French or English. The database supports Boolean (AND, OR, NOT) with the following syntax: +, (), and -, respectively. Enclose phrases in quotations. 16 October 2001. Bartleby.com offers the text of the 1996 edition of this quotations dictionary. Revised 23 January 2004. Part of the larger ComputerUser.com Web site, this dictionary defines computer and technical terms. You can browse the dictionary or search it. 3 May 2005. The Medical Library Association maintains this Web site/publication for understanding medical terms and prescription shorthand. It provides plain English definitions for select medical terminology. It also explains some of the abbreviations or symbols you might find in medical writing or prescriptions. 30 September 2002. The Economist (Bloomsbury Publishing) offers a dictionary of business terms. 14 November 2002. Browse this medical dictionary available via MerckSource by Merck & Co. There is no search feature. The bottom of each page indicates a current copyright date, but it's uncertain whether this pertains to the edition of the dictionary. 13 November 2002. Find an index of short definitions of terms used in the electricity industry. 27 June 2002. Revised 25 September 2007. This database is the online version of the European Employment and Industrial Relations Glossaries, which define industrial relations concepts within the member states of the European Union. The glossaries cover Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, Sweden and the UK. Search by keyword. You may limit results by country.
Another resource at the site, the European industrial relations dictionary, is a collection of the most commonly used terms in employment and industrial relations at EU level. 23 April 2002. Ameritrade offers this resource, which explains financial concepts in easy-to-understand language. The first chapter begins with "What is stock?" and "Why do companies issue stock?" Other chapters cover security and analysis research, debt securities, mutual funds, investment strategies, and retirement planning. 9 February 2006. Lead by the federal Chief Architects Forum, the Wiki is a work-in-progress for developing working draft definitions of 175 enterprise architecture terms. You will find several definitions already available, but they might be somewhat difficult to read. After following the link for a definition, scan the page for both the "business definition" and "technical definition." You might also find additional definitions or comments farther down the page. Nolo Press, legal software and book publisher -- and the subject of an unauthorized practice of law investigation in Texas -- offers this consumers law dictionary. Legal professionals may also find it useful. Browse or search the dictionary to discover easy-to-read definitions. 16 June 2003. InstantWeb, a Web hosting service, offers this "searchable dictionary of acronyms, jargon, programming languages, tools, architecture, operating systems, networking, theory, conventions, standards, mathematics, telecoms, electronics, institutions, companies, projects, products, history, in fact anything to do with computing." Edited by Denis Howe, the dictionary contains several thousand terms. Terms contain hyperlinked cross-references and each entry is dated. This is a useful and easy-to-understand dictionary of technical terms. 12 August 2003. London's Imperial College, Department of Computing offers this database of definitions of computing terms. Many definitions include source information, but the sources are not always conventional. It is also useful for finding the meaning of computer-related acronyms. 18 December 2003. Warwick Bone, an Australian who taught business management and English to Chinese students, provides directory access to special glossaries and dictionaries on the Web. Arranged like the Open Directory Project, visitors may browse subject categories for dictionaries. Glossarist also offers a search engine, which queries the annotated listings at the site, and not the definitions appearing in the hundreds of dictionaries listed here. 13 September 2001. MultiTech Communications, Inc. offers a gateway to glossaries of interest to professionals in insurance, reinsurance, risk management, employee benefits, healthcare, and related fields such as law and financial services. Access entries at the bottom of the opening page. As the term gateway implies, entries come from a variety of sources including several in foreign languages. 12 August 2003. Revised 6 May 2008. The National Library of Medicine provides a glossary of definitions and explanatory notes for over 1200 terms frequently used in the multidisciplinary field of toxicology. Compiled for chemists, the glossary contains medical and other specialized terms that those in the field would recognize and understand. The glossary also contains appendices, which provide abbreviations used in toxicology, abbreviations of international bodies and literature sources. 7 April 2003. Hosted by the University of Washington School of Public Health and Community Medicine, the Glossary defines medical and health-related terms. Arranged alphabetically, many definitions include source information. 24 April 2006. The Better Business Bureau makes available a glossary of terms related to privacy issues. It provides short definitions to terms such as "cookie," "encryption" or "opt-in." It also offers a straight-forward explanation of the fair information practices principles. 1 September 2004. Frederick A. Senese, associate professor of chemistry at Frostburg State University maintains a glossary of chemical terms. It includes .wav files for listening to the pronunciation of select terms and links to more information about some terms appearing in the definitions. 13 January 2003. This simple Web page explains the differences between heteronyms, homographs and homonyms, and provides numerous examples. Some of the examples link to Dictionary.com, which provides the definitions of various heteronyms. 4 June 2001. Informedia Group, Inc. offers a dictionary containing over 10,000 definitions for construction and real estate terms. The site offers a database of facts and information taken from almanacs, an encyclopedia and dictionary. It's an excellent source of historical and current general knowledge. 18 December 2003. This portion of the larger Investopedia Web site provides a searchable dictionary of more than 4,000 financial terms and acronyms. Definitions include related terms, if relevant. You can also browse the dictionary alphabetically. A free site, researchers should expect to encounter slightly distracting, pop-up or blinking advertisements. 16 June 2003. Australia and New Zealand Banking Group Limited offers this searchable financial dictionary. Use English spellings (e.g., securitisation, not securitization) to search for terms or browse the publication alphabetically. Definitions include hyperlinked terms and cross-references and are easy to understand. 13 September 2001. MultiTech Communications, Inc. periodically publishes articles that address terminology used in a wide variety of the world’s languages in insurance, reinsurance, risk management, employee benefits, healthcare, and related fields such as law and financial services. Legal professionals should find these articles using in a variety of circumstances. 21 February 2001. The Ellington Lab at University of Texas at Austin, which hosts BioTech, a biology and chemistry educational resource, offers this dictionary of terms in biochemistry, biotechnology, botany, cell biology and genetics. Use the search box on the left to look up a definition, or the search box on the right to find use of the term in other definitions. Relevant terms within a definition will also be hyperlinked. 29 April 2003. Formerly Pharma-Lexicon, Medi Lexicon is a "dictionary of over 70,000 medical, pharmaceutical, biomedical and healthcare acronyms and abbreviations." It also provides search options for finding pharmaceutical companies, medical terms, medical articles, drugs, medical books and more. In the main navigational menu, Medi Lexicon refers visitors to hand-picked sites offering medical information and covering such topics as asthma, breast cancer, gastrointestinal diseases, cardiovascular diseases, psychiatry and prostate cancer. Many of the search results take users to other Web sites, but because they open in another browser window, it's easy to see when this happens. MedicineNet, a network of U.S. board certified physicians and health professionals, offers this index of medical terms. Medical professionals write and edit this resource. 14 November 2002. InteliHealth Inc. offers the 1997 edition of the Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary. An advanced search feature lets you look up medical terms by name, function, usage, or other criteria. Search Merriam-Webster's well-known dictionary. For each definition, find a link to the same word in the thesaurus. 21 December 1999. The site offers a dictionary of Internet terminology. Definitions are easy to read and include examples when relevant. 9 February 2006. The University of Alberta sponsors this resource, which provides plain English definitions for words and concepts related to the brain and nervous system. 21 February 2002. Numa Financial Systems Ltd. offers this acronyms dictionary of financial derivatives. 14 November 2002. This site enables search multiple online dictionaries. It also allows for wildcard searching. A browse feature lets you see the various dictionaries it queries, which include many specialty and foreign language dictionaries. This CancerWEB resource "is a searchable dictionary ... [that] contains terms relating to biochemistry, cell biology, chemistry, medicine, molecular biology, physics, plant biology, radiobiology, science and technology. It includes: acronyms, jargon, theory, conventions, standards, institutions, projects, eponyms, history, in fact anything to do with medicine or science." 22 October 2001. Revised 21 March 2008. Enter one or two words to find phrases that use it. According to site documentation, the Phrase Thesaurus product was developed as part of a computational linguistics project that ran at Sheffield Hallam University from 1997 to 2001. The free database was transferred to a commercial server in Nov 2001. The database was formerly known as The Phrase Finder.
Note: Access requires a paid subscription. 16 March 2000. Bartleby.com, an online book project, offers the third edition (1995) Roget's Thesaurus. Search or browse this resource to find thesaurus entries. 31 July 2002. Published by John Wiley & Sons during 2001, this reference work features over 200,000 entries covering the abbreviations, symbols and acronyms used in science and technology. You may search or browse the text. Project Bartleby, by Columbia University, offers the 1st edition (1918) of Elements of Style. 18 June 2001. MT Desk offers a glossary of useful information about drugs, surgical instruments, and medical and surgical terms. Definitions often include source information and helpful background information for research. For example, the entry for Seldane and Seldane-D indicates the manufacturer withdrew the drugs from the market effective February 1998, replacing them with Allegra and Allegra-D. It provides two news sources for this information as well as a link to the manufacturer.
26 June 2002. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) offers a dictionary of definitions of environmental terms. Also available is a list of abbreviations and acronyms.
Users enter a word in order to retrieve synonyms or related concepts. This online multi-lingual, multi-type dictionary and thesaurus metamorphoses any Web site into one where visitors can click and discover the meaning or translation or words or phrases. 8 February 2000. Revised 7 August 2002. Formerly the Lycos Tech Glossary, this handy site defines technical terms. What is a smurf attack? Why does my Web hosting service want to ping me? What is POTS and how does it differ from DSL? Find the answers using this dictionary. 25 April 2000. Revised 10 January 2003. Formerly dictionary of technical terms, this site now sports a search feature that retrieves definitions of technical terms from other valuable Web sites, in addition to its own. Whatis?com also offers technical advice, including tips, responses to questions, and white papers. 1 June 2000. Revised 14 March 2003. xrefer provides a digital library of reference materials provided by various publishers. Although it sells a collection of 100 titles (xreferplus) to libraries and institutions, xrefer provides search access to 40 titles for free. Some of the free titles include Oxford's A Dictionary of Law, the Macmillan Encyclopedia, The American Heritage Dictionary of Idioms, A Dictionary of English Place-Names, and the Bloomsbury Thematic Dictionary of Quotations. |
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