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Linked to more than 400 dictionaries of over 130 different languages. Webs and reference books have a long and happy history together. This website indexes on-line dictionaries, thesauri, and such like containing words and phrases.
Greetings, and welcome to The Exploding Dictionary. The basic idea was to take a set of publicly available dictionaries, index them into a SQL database, and then cross-reference them to near death. :) As a researcher, this should be a very useful resource. Hypertext is the researcher's dream come true, allowing for instant jumps to related or unknown material.
You may not think of yourself as a language specialist, but you are. If you hear a new word or phrase, if you read a new word or phrase, you notice it right away. Soon you know what it means, and then you are using it all the time. Remember when you did not talk about cellphones? Snowboards? Morphing? Infomercials?Many scientists believe that the ability to learn language is basic to the human brain. Linguistic power shapes the human experience, separating Homo sapiens from every other kind of life. Language is the basis of imagination: "Once upon a time." "Call me Ishmael." "In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit." Language carries knowledge, the accumulated millennia-long discoveries of women and men from all cultures. If our species began with the power of language, civilization opens with writing, through which we hear our ancestors and learn from people all over the world. "Cogito, ergo sum." "E=mc2"
Search the OneLook Dictionary indexes for the word you seek. You may search all or a few of the dictionaries and then quickly retrieve the definitions found. An asterisk character in a search string is a wildcard that matches any number (including zero) of any characters. If an exact match is not found, then a partial match may be found (the presence of an asterisk blocks this feature). If no match is found in the dictionaries selected, then the other dictionaries are searched.
The Human-Languages Page is a comprehensive catalog of language-related Internet resources. The more than 2000 links in the HLP database have been hand-reviewed to bring you the best language links the Web has to offer. Whether you're looking for online language lessons, translating dictionaries, native literature, translation services, software, language schools, or just a little information on a language you've heard about, the HLP probably has something to suit your needs.
This online dictionary contains definitions of hundreds of words that are emerging as a new vocabulary surrounding the technology and community of the Internet and the World Wide Web.
Fun with words. Do you want to sound like a Redneck? or a Moron? how about Elmer Fudd? This site will convert your text into Jive, Cockney, Redneck, Moron and more. This web page has a wonderfully funny way with your words.
Scroll down past the "Dialectize a Web Page" to the "Dialectize Text" area.
The Quiz of Breaking News and Obscure Words!!!Do you know what obmutescence is? You will if you visit this web page.
"U.S. District Court Judge Norma Holloway Johnson has ruled that Clinton aides may not use executive privilege to justify their obmutescence before the Whitewater grand jury."
This website is a bunch-o-fun for those that love obscure words!
Did you know that parliament is an anagram of partial men? Or, Clint Eastwood an anagram of Old West Action? Someone once said, "All the life's wisdom can be found in anagrams. Anagrams never lie." Here is your chance to discover the wisdom of anagrams.
A list of many dictionaries, from the serious to the whimsical.
Slang of the world. This site has links to slang dictionaries for many of the languages of the world.
It must not be easy being British! Being expected to keep a stiff upper lip all the time! Struggling to get that accent right (how we wish we could speak like that!). Having to learn all those strange British English words! What words are we speaking about? We're awfully glad you asked! The folks at the BritSpeak language laboratory invite you to grab your brolly, knock up a friend and join us on a linguistic tour of Britain...
This page is dedicated to the uniqueness of the British way of speaking. I hope that by creating a page such as this, foreign viewers of British television programs, or travellers to the UK are able to make head or tail of what people are talking about.
Ever shout a cobber some XXXX? Seen a grommet on a boogie board? Been given a bluey? Or bitten by a mozzie? Chances are, you have.
A Compilation of Technical Water, Water Quality, Environmental, and Water-Related Terms
