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ABBREVIATIONS & ACRONYMS
Acronym Finder Abbreviations of Chemical Compounds (English<>German) Defence Glossary (Jane's) Over 20,000 defence-related abbreviations and acronyms. Free log-in necessary to access database. The Opaui Guide to Lists of Acronyms, Abbreviations, and Initialisms on the World Wide Web Oxford Reference Online: The Oxford Dictionary of Abbreviations, 2d ed., 1998 The most comprehensive dictionary of abbreviations available, with 20,000 abbreviations and 36,000 definitions. Authoritative and up-to-date, it covers the most important business, scientific, and technical abbreviations, as well as those in everyday use. In addition to abbreviations used in English-speaking countries, the dictionary includes some non-English terms. TUCAA - The Ultimate Computer Acronyms Archive This application allows one to consult a database of computer-related acronyms by navigating alphabetically through acronyms or searching for specific acronyms. Wiley Interscience Scientific and Technical Acronyms, Symbols, and Abbreviations Includes an acronym finder, the Greek alphabet and Roman numerals, basic weights and measures units, conversion tables from English to metric units, mathematical notation, and the periodic table of the elements, etc. World Wide Web Acronym and Abbreviation Server
LANGUAGE DICTIONARIES
ENGLISH
American<>British and British<>American Cambridge Dictionaries Includes Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary, Cambridge Learner's Dictionary, Cambridge Dictionary of American English, Cambridge International Dictionary of Idioms, Cambridge International Dictionary of Phrasal Verbs, Cambridge Klett Compact French-English Dictionary, Cambridge Klett Compact Spanish-English Dictionary. Dictionary of Difficult Words Increase your vocabulary with over 13,900 difficult words. Dictionary of Slang English slang and colloquialisms used in the United Kingdom. Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary Oxford English Dictionary Contains the text of the 20-volume Oxford English Dictionary. Traces the usage of over half a million words through quotations from a wide range of international English language sources, including classic literature and specialist periodicals. Also offers the best in etymological analysis, listings of variant spellings, and shows pronunciation using the international phonetic alphabet. Oxford Reference Online: English Dictionaries & Thesauruses Includes: The Oxford American Dictionary of Current English, The Concise Oxford English Dictionary, The Oxford American Thesaurus of Current English, The Oxford Paperback Thesaurus. Oxford Reference Online: English Language Reference Includes: The Oxford Dictionary of Abbreviations, The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology, The Oxford Dictionary of English Grammar, Concise Oxford Companion to the English Language, A New Dictionary of Eponyms, The Oxford Essential Dictionary of Foreign Terms in English, The Oxford Dictionary of Idioms, The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Linguistics, The Oxford Dictionary of Proverbs, The Oxford Dictionary of American Usage and Style, Pocket Fowler's Modern English Usage. World Wide Words International English from a British viewpoint. Sections include topical words, turns of phrase, weird words: what they mean, where they came from, how they have evolved, the ways in which people sometimes misuse them; also issues of grammar, style and punctuation.
BILINGUAL
Chinese<>German dictionary Chinese input and output in Big5. English<>Arabic Translations of words and phrases, also entire websites, from English to Arabic. Corresponding translations from Arabic to English available after free registration. English<>Chinese Contains the complete text of "Chinese Characters: A Genealogy and Dictionary", which uses a system of character trees to show the connections between characters according to traditional Chinese etymologies. Chinese search terms may be input as pinyin, or via radical or stroke count. English<>Chinese Chinese search terms may be input as GB, Big5 or pinyin; Chinese results may be output as GB, Big5 or image. English<>French Le grand-dictionnaire terminologique; covering 3 million terms. English<>German dic.cc English<>German LEO (Link Everything Online) English<>German QuickDic English<>Hungarian English<>Polish English<>Swahili Greek<>English Oxford Reference Online Bilingual Dictionaries Includes: Oxford Business French Dictionary (English<>French), Oxford Business Spanish Dictionary (English<>Spanish), Concise Oxford-Hachette French Dictionary (English<>French), Concise Oxford-Duden German Dictionary (English<>German), Pocket Oxford Italian Dictionary (English<>Italian), Pocket Oxford Latin Dictionary (English<>Latin), and Concise Oxford Spanish Dictionary (English<>Spanish) Spanish, Spanish<>English, Spanish<>French, Spanish<>German, Spanish<>Catalan
MULTILINGUAL
Babylon Dictionaries Chinese, Dutch, English, French, German, Hebrew, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Swedish. Eurodicautom The European Commission's multilingual term bank. Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Italian, Latin, Portuguese, Spanish and Swedish. Covers a broad spectrum of human knowledge, but is particularly rich in technical and specialized terminology (agriculture, telecommunications, transport, legislation, finance) related to EU policy. Contains about five and a half million entries (terms and abbreviations), subdivided into more than 800 collections. Users can define and store their profile (search parameters) for future sessions. Foreignword.com Dictionaries & free translations of single terms. Over 130 on-line dictionaries and 18 machine translations. Free Automatic Translators A compilation of the major free translation sites, including Babel Fish, InterTran, FreeTranslation, Google, WorldLingo, Dictionary.com. In addition to languages covered by many other free translation sites, it includes Croatian, Czech, Danish, Filipino, Finnish, Greek, Hungarian, Icelandic, Japanese, Latin, Norwegian, Polish, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovenian, Swedish, Turkish, Welsh. Also links to NewsTrans, the "original multilingual MetaNews translator". Freetranslation Free translations of entire documents and websites. Includes languages not covered in the Freetranslation section of the Free Automatic Translators site (see above). In addition to Dutch, French, German, Italian, Norwegian, Portuguese and Spanish, it includes translations from English into simplified and traditional Chinese of a better quality than most search engine translations. Human translation services also available from this site for a fee. Multidictionary Czech<>English, French, German, Spanish Multilex Russian<>English, French, German, Italian, Spanish Rambler Russian<>English and Russian<>German Dictionary Terminology Collection Covers over 60 languages (Afrikaans, Algerian Darja, Arabic, Basque, Belarussian, Bengali, Braille, Catalan, Chechen, Cheyenne, Chinese, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Egyptian, English, Finnish, French, Gaelic, German, Greek, Guarani, Hawaiian, Hebrew, Hungarian, Icelandic, Indonesian, etc.) Travlang Translating dictionaries (Afrikaans, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, Frisian, German, Hungarian, Italian, Norwegian, Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish) United Nations Multilingual Terminology Database (UNTERM) 70,000 entries in the 6 official UN languages, updated daily. Compiled over the years in response to diverse and wide-ranging demands of UN language staff for terminology and nomenclature; facilitates the efforts of people around the world who participate in the work of the UN but do not have access to the Secretariat's intranet. Web of On-line Dictionaries Links to dictionaries, thesauri, grammar, etc. for over 270 languages. Webster's Online Dictionary Over 3 million words and expressions across 90 modern and 10 ancestral languages. WordReference English<>French, English<>German, English<>Italian, English<>Spanish. Xlation.com Resources for translation professionals. 193 dictionaries are currently indexed. The links will return both multilingual and single language dictionaries.
SUBJECT DICTIONARIES AND GLOSSARIES
Your dictionary Links to hundreds of English and multilingual specialty dictionaries from A to (almost) Z: Accounting, Advertising, Agriculture, Anthropology, Archaeology, Architecture, Art, Astronomy, Automobiles, Aviation ... Weather, Water, Wine. Aerospace Terms AGRIPEDIA Glossary Terms in agriculture Astronomy Terms Astrophysics Glossary Atmospheric Chemistry Glossary Biochimie Glossaire (French) BioTech Life Science Dictionary Biotechnology Annotated Dictionary Business and Technical Dictionary English<>Spanish and German<>Spanish CKnow.com Terms, definitions, and acronyms associated with computer products, software, and hardware. Includes a listing of emoticons. Computing Terms (Babylonia Dictionary) Computing Terms (Free On-line Dictionary) Energy Terms From the California Energy Commission. Environmental Glossary From SOLUTIONS Software Corporation. FAO Glossary of Biotechnology for Food and Agriculture Currently contains 3,196 terms and related definitions in English, French and Spanish. Finance Glossary Over 8,000 entries and 18,000 hyperlinks. Geographical Information Systems Dictionary Global Investor Glossary Glossary of nuclear terms From the European Nuclear Society. IDIDAS Glossary Glossary of over 28,000 terms from the Joint IAEA/FAO Division's International Database on Insect Disinfestation and Sterilization. IMF Terminology Contains over 4,500 records of terms useful to translators working with International Monetary Fund material. It provides versions of terms, without definitions, English, French, German, Portuguese and Spanish. Internet Dictionary InvestorWords A comprehensive financial glossary, with over 6,000 definitions and 20,000 links between related terms. Law Dictionary Law Dictionary (Duhaime) Learning Technologies Terms Library and Information Science Dictionary Mathematisches Wörterbuch German<>English Measures, Units and Conversions Medical Terms This project was commissioned by the European Commission and executed by the Heymans Institute of Pharmacology. Contains 1830 technical and popular medical terms in eight European languages: Danish, Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish. MedTerms From MedicineNet.com; contains easy-to-understand explanations of over 15,000 medical terms. Metal Terminology NRC Glossary From the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission. Nuclear Facts Glossary Nuclear Fuel Cycle Glossary From the World Nuclear Association. Nuclear Fuel Terms From the World Nuclear Association. Nuclear Fusion Terms Compiled by the U.K. Atomic Energy Authority Culham Division. Nuclear Science Terms Compiled by staff of the Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory; focuses on radioactive decay. Organic Chemistry Dictionary English<>German Oxford Reference Online A comprehensive resource that contains over 120 dictionaries and reference titles covering the complete subject spectrum from General Reference and Language to Science and Medicine, and from Humanities and Social Sciences to Business and Professional. Oxford Reference Online: Biological Sciences Includes: A Dictionary of Biology, A Dictionary of Ecology, A Dictionary of Plant Sciences, A Dictionary of Scientists, A Dictionary of Zoology. Oxford Reference Online: Computing Includes: A Dictionary of Computing, A Dictionary of the Internet, A Dictionary of Weights, Measures, and Units. Oxford Reference Online: Earth and Environmental Sciences Includes: A Dictionary of Earth Sciences, A Dictionary of Ecology, A Dictionary of Geography, A Dictionary of Weather. Oxford Reference Online: Economics and Business Includes: A Dictionary of Accounting, A Dictionary of Business, A Dictionary of Economics, A Dictionary of Finance and Banking. Oxford Reference Online: Law Includes: A Dictionary of Law, The Oxford Guide to United States Supreme Court Decisions. Oxford Reference Online: Medicine Includes: Concise Medical Dictionary, An A-Z of Medicinal Drugs, A Dictionary of Nursing, A Dictionary of Psychology. Oxford Reference Online: Physical Sciences & Mathematics Includes: A Dictionary of Astronomy, A Dictionary of Chemistry, The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Mathematics, A Dictionary of Physics, A Dictionary of Scientists, A Dictionary of Statistics, A Dictionary of Weights, Measures, and Units. Oxford Reference Online: Science Includes: A Dictionary of Astronomy, A Dictionary of Biology, A Dictionary of Chemistry, A Dictionary of Earth Sciences, A Dictionary of Ecology, The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Mathematics, Concise Medical Dictionary, An A-Z of Medicinal Drigs, A Dictionary of Nursing, A Dictionary of Physics, A Dictionary of Plant Sciences, A Dictionary of Psychology, A Dictionary of Scientists, A Dictionary of Statistics, A Dictionary of Weather, A Dictionary of Weights, Measures, and Units, A Dictionary of Zoology. Plasma Physics and Fusion Energy Terms Search Engine Dictionary Social Science Computing Terms and Social Science Data Terms Soil Science Terms Webopedia Online dictionary and search engine for computer and internet technology. World Bank Multilingual Terminology Aimed at facilitating terminological knowledge sharing and enhancing consistency of terminology usage in World Bank documentation. Contains terminology material in Arabic, English, French and Spanish.
STYLE MANUALS
American Heritage Book of English Usage A detailed look at grammar, style, diction, word formation, gender, social groups and scientific forms; for students, writers, academicians and anybody concerned about proper contemporary writing style. The Columbia Guide to Standard American English A guide to how the language is best written and spoken and how it can be used most most effectively, this site features a searchable database of over 6,500 entries containing thousands of examples, both descriptive and prescriptive, and 4,300 hyperlinked cross-references. Guide to Grammar and Writing Grammatical issues, tips on composition and advice on English usage. Die neue Rechtschreibung The new German orthography rules, in force for governmental organizations and schools since 1 August 2005, with helpful hints and examples. Strunk's Elements of Style Asserting that one must first know the rules to break them, this classic reference book is a must-have for any student and conscientious writer. It gives the principal requirements of plain English style and concentrates attention on the rules of usage and principles of composition most commonly violated.
THESAURI
The Astronomy Thesaurus English, French, German, Italian, Spanish Eurovoc Thesaurus A multilingual thesaurus covering the fields in which the European Communities are active; it provides a means of indexing the documents in the documentation systems of the European institutions and of their users. Eurovoc exists in the 11 official languages of the European Union: Spanish, Danish, German, Greek, English, French, Italian, Dutch, Portuguese, Finnish and Swedish. In addition to these versions, it has been translated by the parliaments of a number of countries: Albania, Croatia, Czech Republic, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Romania, Russia, Slovakia, and Slovenia. Merriam-Webster Online Thesaurus Roget's II: The New Thesaurus, 3rd ed. Containing 35,000 synonyms and over 250,000 cross-references in an easy-to-use format, this thesaurus features succinct word definitions and an innovative hyperlinked category index. Roget’s International Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases Peter Roget’s classic structure coupled with Sylvester Mawson’s modernization becomes even more user-friendly with 85,000 hyperlinked cross-references, thus fulfilling their goal of “each word being related to its neighbors and each part to the whole.” Additionally, over 2,900 proverbs and quotations from classic and modern authors illustrate the 1,000-plus entries. UNBIS Thesaurus The multilingual UNBIS Thesaurus, prepared by the Dag Hammarskjöld Library (DHL), Department of Public Information, contains the terminology used in subject analysis of documents and other materials relevant to United Nations programmes and activities. UNESCO Thesaurus A controlled vocabulary which includes subject terms for the following areas of knowledge: education, science, culture, social and human sciences, information and communication, and politics, law and economics; also includes the names of countries and groupings of countries: political, economic, geographic, ethnic and religious, and linguistic groupings. Includes French and Spanish equivalents of English preferred terms. Visual Thesaurus A tool to explore, study, and analyze the structure of the English language. By displaying the interrelationships between words and meanings as spatial maps, it translates language into a visible architecture. The Visual Thesaurus accesses data from WordNet, a publicly available lexical reference system developed by the Cognitive Science Laboratory at Princeton University. This database contains over 50,000 words and 40,000 phrases collected into more than 70,000 sense meanings.

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