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Title: On-Line Dictionaries
Post by: Perry Mowbray on March 27, 2008, 06:35 AM

After being soundly and justifiably corrected (https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=12041.msg107354#msg107354) for posting off topic (thanks tinjaw (https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?action=profile;u=38009) ;) ), I thought that exposing the OnLine Dictionaries in a Poll would be both interesting and useful.

To vote I've given you the top 14 Dictionaries by Popularity from OneLook.com to choose from, plus OneLook (of course  ;) ), and an "Other" for your own favourite if it's unlisted. I'm assuming that the popularity on OneLook is gained by counting the clicks on the Dictionary links? The options list is in order: It'll be interesting to see if the results here match OneLook's.

My all-time favourite OnLine Dictionary is OneLook.com (http://www.onelook.com/), which offers a range of Dictionary survices:

• OneLook Dictionary Lookup (http://www.onelook.com/) Offers entries from, and links to, many dictionaries.
• Reverse Dictionary (http://www.onelook.com/reverse-dictionary.shtml) Offers a wonderful way to cheat at crosswords find a word you can't quite remember
• Word of the Day (http://www.onelook.com/?c=wotd) is another ubiquitous (http://www.onelook.com/?w=ubiquitous&ls=a) word-power improver
• Rhyme Zone (http://www.rhymezone.com/) is a new find for me and finds Rhymes, Synonyms  , Definitions, Homophones, Similar sound, Same consonants, Related, Quotations, Antonyms!!

These guys (http://www.datamuse.com/) are brilliant and are definitely in my favourites!  :Thmbsup:

-Perry Mowbray (March 26, 2008, 09:08 AM)

But they do not do all this Dictionary stuff themselves, they actually use other dictionaries! The 109 General Dictionaries (http://www.onelook.com/?d=all_gen&v=&sort=pop&langdf=all) (sorted by popularity) are listed here; all in all though, they've indexed 12,833,697 words in 1061 dictionaries (a huge number in anyone's language):

• Encarta® World English Dictionary, North American Edition (http://encarta.msn.com/encnet/features/dictionary/dictionaryhome.aspx): [107301 words, More info (http://www.onelook.com/?d=ewe)]
• V2 Vocabulary Building Dictionary (http://vocabulary-vocabulary.com/lookup-learn.php): [2042 words, More info (http://www.onelook.com/?d=voc)]
• Compact Oxford English Dictionary (http://www.askoxford.com/): [42157 words, More info (http://www.onelook.com/?d=oxf)]
• Merriam-Webster's Online Dictionary (http://www.m-w.com/), 10th Edition: [107552 words, More info (http://www.onelook.com/?d=mwd)]
• Cambridge International Dictionary of English (http://dictionary.cambridge.org/): [66408 words, More info (http://www.onelook.com/?d=cie)]
• InfoVisual Visual Dictionary (http://www.infovisual.info/): [3884 words, More info (http://www.onelook.com/?d=ivz)]
• Wiktionary (http://www.wikipedia.org/): [580200 words, More info (http://www.onelook.com/?d=wkt)]
• The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus (http://www.wordsmyth.net/): [47719 words, More info (http://www.onelook.com/?d=wed)]
• The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language (http://www.bartleby.com/61/s0.html): [89248 words, More info (http://www.onelook.com/?d=rtl)]
• Infoplease Dictionary (http://www.infoplease.com/dictionary.html): [127110 words, More info (http://www.onelook.com/?d=ipd)]
• Dictionary.com (http://www.dictionary.com/): [710879 words, More info (http://www.onelook.com/?d=ict)]
• Online Etymology Dictionary (http://www.etymonline.com/): [21327 words, More info (http://www.onelook.com/?d=ety)]
• UltraLingua English Dictionary (http://www.ultralingua.net/): [103294 words, More info (http://www.onelook.com/?d=ult)]
• Cambridge Dictionary of American English (http://dictionary.cambridge.org/): [37791 words, More info (http://www.onelook.com/?d=cim)]
• Cambridge International Dictionary of Idioms (http://dictionary.cambridge.org/): [5132 words, More info (http://www.onelook.com/?d=cii)]
• Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia (http://www.wikipedia.org/): [3201550 words, More info (http://www.onelook.com/?d=wik)]
• Cambridge International Dictionary of Phrasal Verbs (http://dictionary.cambridge.org/): [1929 words, More info (http://www.onelook.com/?d=cip)]
• Online Plain Text English Dictionary (http://www.mso.anu.edu.au/~ralph/OPTED/): [111778 words, More info (http://www.onelook.com/?d=anu)]
• Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition (http://humanities.uchicago.edu/forms_unrest/webster.form.html): [88773 words, More info (http://www.onelook.com/?d=art)]
• Rhymezone (http://www.rhymezone.com/): [229780 words, More info (http://www.onelook.com/?d=rhy)]
• CMU Pronouncing (http://www.speech.cs.cmu.edu/cgi-bin/cmudict): [118581 words, More info (http://www.onelook.com/?d=cup)]
• My Hebrew Dictionary (http://www.dictionary.co.il/): [40 words, More info (http://www.onelook.com/?d=heb)]
• Grandiloquent Dictionary (http://www.islandnet.com/~egbird/dict/dict.htm): [2039 words, More info (http://www.onelook.com/?d=isl)]
• Faclair G?idhlig - Beurla Gaelic - English Dictionary (http://www.sst.ph.ic.ac.uk/angus/Faclair/): [5173 words, More info (http://www.onelook.com/?d=sst)]
• American British For English Speaking People (American to British) (http://www.peak.org/~jeremy/dictionary/dict.html): [1791 words, More info (http://www.onelook.com/?d=pka)]
• AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary (http://www.allwords.com/): [175063 words, More info (http://www.onelook.com/?d=all)]
• R-O-Matic Italian/English Dictionary (http://www.aromatic.com/itaeng/): [3504 words, More info (http://www.onelook.com/?d=aro)]
• The Spoken Taino Language (http://members.dandy.net/~orocobix/tedict.html): [334 words, More info (http://www.onelook.com/?d=dan)]
• GREEK-SERBIAN DICTIONARY (http://users.otenet.gr/~vamvakos/srpski.htm): [3932 words, More info (http://www.onelook.com/?d=amv)]
• Strange and Unusual Dictionaries (http://blueray.com/dictionary/): [1769 words, More info (http://www.onelook.com/?d=blu)]
• Langtolang English from/to French dictionary (http://www.langtolang.com/): [20075 words, More info (http://www.onelook.com/?d=ngt)]
• Webster's 1828 Dictionary (http://1828.mshaffer.com/): [62949 words, More info (http://www.onelook.com/?d=smo)]
• 1500 acronymes de l'�cole (http://acro.ecole.free.fr/): [8239 words, More info (http://www.onelook.com/?d=col)]
• 18 LANGUAGES MULTILINGUAL DICTIONARY (http://users.otenet.gr/~vamvakos/multilingual.htm): [9309 words, More info (http://www.onelook.com/?d=mva)]
• 1911 edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica (http://1911encyclopedia.org/index.htm): [34704 words, More info (http://www.onelook.com/?d=enc)]
• A to Z list of the most popular idioms (http://www.goenglish.com/Idioms.asp): [185 words, More info (http://www.onelook.com/?d=oen)]
• ANTIDICO (L') - LE DICTIONNAIRE DES MOTS ABSENTS DES AUTRES DICTIONNAIRES (http://membres.lycos.fr/antidico/): [7900 words, More info (http://www.onelook.com/?d=tid)]
• All About Homonyms (http://www.cooper.com/alan/homonym_list.html): [1506 words, More info (http://www.onelook.com/?d=coo)]
• Bali: The Online Travel Guide (http://home.mira.net/~wreid/bali_eng.html): [978 words, More info (http://www.onelook.com/?d=mir)]
• British American For English Speaking People (British to American) (http://www.peak.org/~jeremy/dictionary/dict.html): [1892 words, More info (http://www.onelook.com/?d=pke)]
• Celtic Dictionary (http://www.gallica.co.uk/celts/glossary.htm): [129 words, More info (http://www.onelook.com/?d=lli)]
• Chinese Characters (http://zhongwen.com/s/ziyin.htm#a): [398 words, More info (http://www.onelook.com/?d=zho)]
• Cl�sica expresi�n Canaria (http://www.iac.es/galeria/westend/guanye.html): [320 words, More info (http://www.onelook.com/?d=iac)]
• Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition (http://www.bartleby.com/65/): [50831 words, More info (http://www.onelook.com/?d=cse)]
• Columbia Gazetteer of North America (http://www.bartleby.com/69/): [33247 words, More info (http://www.onelook.com/?d=gzt)]
• Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition (Encyclopedia.com) (http://www.encyclopedia.com/): [7267 words, More info (http://www.onelook.com/?d=ped)]
• Dict.cc Englisch/Deutsch Wörterbuch (http://www.dict.cc/): [750745 words, More info (http://www.onelook.com/?d=dcc)]
• Dict.cc Englisch/Deutsch Wörterbuch (http://www.dict.cc/): [293932 words, More info (http://www.onelook.com/?d=dcd)]
• Dictionary of Americanisms (1848) (http://www.merrycoz.org/voices/bartlett/AMER01.HTM): [2158 words, More info (http://www.onelook.com/?d=amr)]
• Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898) (http://www.bartleby.com/81/): [14825 words, More info (http://www.onelook.com/?d=dpf)]
• Dictionary/thesaurus (http://www.thefreedictionary.com/): [404303 words, More info (http://www.onelook.com/?d=tfd)]
• Dizionario Esoterico (http://www.esonet.org/dizionario/index.htm): [1855 words, More info (http://www.onelook.com/?d=eso)]
• Double-Tongued Word Wrester (http://www.doubletongued.org/): [1249 words, More info (http://www.onelook.com/?d=dtw)]
• E Cobham Brewer, The Reader's Handbook (http://www.bibliomania.com/Reference/Readers/): [5277 words, More info (http://www.onelook.com/?d=bli)]
• ESL Idiom Page (http://eslcafe.com/idioms/): [203 words, More info (http://www.onelook.com/?d=lca)]
• Encarta® Online Encyclopedia, North American Edition (http://encarta.msn.com/encnet/refpages/artcenter.aspx): [4994 words, More info (http://www.onelook.com/?d=eca)]
• Etymologically Speaking (http://www.westegg.com/etymology/): [236 words, More info (http://www.onelook.com/?d=est)]
• Etymologies & Word Origins (http://www.wordorigins.org/index.htm): [429 words, More info (http://www.onelook.com/?d=wil)]
• Eurodict Online (http://www.eurodict.com/): [76780 words, More info (http://www.onelook.com/?d=uro)]
• Foreign Words and Phrases (http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0001619.html): [74 words, More info (http://www.onelook.com/?d=nfo)]
• Free Dictionary (http://www.freedictionary.org/): [254453 words, More info (http://www.onelook.com/?d=fdn)]
• GREEK-CATALAN DICTIONARY (http://users.otenet.gr/~vamvakos/catala.htm): [2470 words, More info (http://www.onelook.com/?d=ten)]
• GREEK-ENGLISH DICTIONARY (http://users.otenet.gr/~vamvakos/alphabet.htm): [2399 words, More info (http://www.onelook.com/?d=ote)]
• GREEK-SLAVONIC (LANGUAGE OF THE FORMER YUGOSLAV REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA (http://users.otenet.gr/~vamvakos/slavonic.htm): [3776 words, More info (http://www.onelook.com/?d=vam)]
• Gaelic Language (Manx) (http://www.ceantar.org/Dicts/): [48957 words, More info (http://www.onelook.com/?d=cea)]
• General English-Spanish (http://www.efn.org/~newslett/dictionary/): [20735 words, More info (http://www.onelook.com/?d=efn)]
• Hutchinson Dictionaries (http://www.tiscali.co.uk/reference/dictionaries/computers/data/content_a.html): [17102 words, More info (http://www.onelook.com/?d=hda)]
• Hutchinson's Dictionary of Difficult Words (http://www.tiscali.co.uk/reference/dictionaries/difficultwords/): [14455 words, More info (http://www.onelook.com/?d=ddw)]
• Langmaker Dictionary of Neologisms (http://www.langmaker.com/db/eng_a2z_index.htm): [2140 words, More info (http://www.onelook.com/?d=lmk)]
• Langtolang (http://www.langtolang.com/): [51081 words, More info (http://www.onelook.com/?d=ola)]
• Le Dicomoche (http://www.dicomoche.net/): [553 words, More info (http://www.onelook.com/?d=ana)]
• Lexical FreeNet (http://www.lexfn.com/) (shows word connections): [134189 words, More info (http://www.onelook.com/?d=xfn)]
• Logos Multilingual E-translation Portal (http://www.logos.it/pls/dictionary/new_dictionary.home_project?pjCode=10&lang=en&u_code=4395): [52994 words, More info (http://www.onelook.com/?d=ogo)]
• LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus (http://lookwayup.com/free): [187425 words, More info (http://www.onelook.com/?d=ook)]
• Luciferous Logolepsy (http://www.kokogiak.com/logolepsy/): [9029 words, More info (http://www.onelook.com/?d=luf)]
• Michaelis Moderno Dicion�rio da L�ngua Portuguesa (http://www.uol.com.br/michaelis/): [812 words, More info (http://www.onelook.com/?d=uol)]
• My Hebrew Picture Dictionary (http://www.milon.co.il/): [180 words, More info (http://www.onelook.com/?d=mhp)]
• MyWord.info (http://myword.info/): [2425 words, More info (http://www.onelook.com/?d=bee)]
• New English Words (http://www.owlnet.rice.edu/~ling215/NewWords/index.html): [112 words, More info (http://www.onelook.com/?d=ruf)]
• OneLook Dictionaries "Frequently Asked Words" (FAW) (http://www.onelook.com/faq.shtml): [1 words, More info (http://www.onelook.com/?d=faw)]
• Online Talking Dictionary (http://www.dictionarist.com/): [293282 words, More info (http://www.onelook.com/?d=tio)]
• Phrasal Verb Page (http://eslcafe.com/pv/pv-mng.html): [173 words, More info (http://www.onelook.com/?d=esl)]
• Phrase Finder (http://www.phrases.org.uk/): [953 words, More info (http://www.onelook.com/?d=wsh)]
• Robb: German English (http://germanenglishwords.com/): [439 words, More info (http://www.onelook.com/?d=eun)]
• Robb: Swahili English (http://humanlanguages.com/swahilienglish/): [31 words, More info (http://www.onelook.com/?d=hum)]
• Robb: Finnish English (http://humanlanguages.com/finnishenglish/): [9 words, More info (http://www.onelook.com/?d=uma)]
• Rogets Thesaurus (http://www.thesaurus.com/): [968 words, More info (http://www.onelook.com/?d=rog)]
• Russian dictionary (http://www.coloradocollege.edu/dept/ru/dictionary/menus/mainmenu.html): [157 words, More info (http://www.onelook.com/?d=swi)]
• Siglas de Organizaciones en Guatemala (http://www.igc.apc.org/pbi/guateab.html): [981 words, More info (http://www.onelook.com/?d=igc)]
• Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms (http://www.plexoft.com/SBF/thumbtabs.html): [23068 words, More info (http://www.onelook.com/?d=buf)]
• The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy (http://www.bartleby.com/59/): [6639 words, More info (http://www.onelook.com/?d=dcl)]
• The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words (http://phrontistery.info/ihlstart.html): [15361 words, More info (http://www.onelook.com/?d=hro)]
• The Word Detective (http://www.word-detective.com/backidx.html): [1512 words, More info (http://www.onelook.com/?d=rdd)]
• The Word Spy (http://www.wordspy.com/): [2502 words, More info (http://www.onelook.com/?d=spy)]
• Turkish Acronyms to live by (http://www2.egenet.com.tr/mastersj/turkish-acronyms.html): [138 words, More info (http://www.onelook.com/?d=efe)]
• Typographical Errors in Library Databases (http://bradford.newriver.lib.fl.us/moretypos/moretypos.htm): [410 words, More info (http://www.onelook.com/?d=nef)]
• UVic Writer's Guide (http://web.uvic.ca/wguide/): [319 words, More info (http://www.onelook.com/?d=uvi)]
• UltraLingua French Dictionary (http://www.ultralingua.net/): [58671 words, More info (http://www.onelook.com/?d=ull)]
• Urdu/English Dictionary (http://www.urduenglishdictionary.org/): [117441 words, More info (http://www.onelook.com/?d=urd)]
• VERBAL VESTIGIA (Words Hanging On By A Single Phrase) (http://ashelf.com/wordlists/v/vev/www/): [50 words, More info (http://www.onelook.com/?d=vev)]
• Virdainas - a Sudovian Dictionary (http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Ithaca/6623/): [5918 words, More info (http://www.onelook.com/?d=ath)]
• Who2 (http://www.who2.com/): [3079 words, More info (http://www.onelook.com/?d=whc)]
• Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations (http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:English_pronunciation): [7192 words, More info (http://www.onelook.com/?d=wms)]
• WordNet 1.7 Vocabulary Helper (http://poets.notredame.ac.jp/cgi-bin/wn): [119160 words, More info (http://www.onelook.com/?d=ntr)]
• World Wide Words (http://www.worldwidewords.org/indexes/genindex.htm): [1979 words, More info (http://www.onelook.com/?d=uin)]
• Worthless Word For The Day (http://home.comcast.net/~wwftd/): [3694 words, More info (http://www.onelook.com/?d=wwf)]
• Ye Olde English Sayings (http://www.rootsweb.com/~genepool/sayings.htm): [41 words, More info (http://www.onelook.com/?d=roo)]
• Yiddish-Hebrew-English-German-Russian Picture Dictionary (http://metalab.unc.edu/yiddish/Vort): [186 words, More info (http://www.onelook.com/?d=tal)]
• bab.la (http://bab.la/en/index.php): [512709 words, More info (http://www.onelook.com/?d=lae)]

Of course you get all the above (plus many more) Dictionaries with OneLook, for me it's a simple choice...

Title: Re: On-Line Dictionaries
Post by: tomos on March 27, 2008, 06:57 AM

wow, thats a list

great job Perry :up:
but you havent voted yourself ? (I seem to have been the first..)

I use Dictionary.com when I look up a word (=not often - cause I a lazy beggar as opposed to haveing a huge vocabulary :-[)
It uses/quotes a bunch of other online dictionaries.
I've been so happy with it I've never bothered trying anything else

I voted "other" also because I mainly use German-English-German dictionaries.

These days I use dict.cc
Housetier recommended it here somewhere (I've wanted to make a post about it because they have a wonderful vocabulary "box"  - as you look up words you can add them to the box and learn them. This might prompt me..)
I used to use Leo (http://dict.leo.org/ende?lang=en&lp=ende) which is also very good

Title: Re: On-Line Dictionaries
Post by: tomos on March 27, 2008, 07:05 AM

• Dict.cc Englisch/Deutsch Wörterbuch (http://www.dict.cc/): [750745 words, More info (http://www.onelook.com/?d=dcc)]
• Dict.cc Englisch/Deutsch Wörterbuch (http://www.dict.cc/): [293932 words, More info (http://www.onelook.com/?d=dcd)]

-Perry Mowbray (March 27, 2008, 06:35 AM)

odd that's listed twice (at onelook.com too) with same url but different amounts of words
must try it out - onelook I mean

Title: Re: On-Line Dictionaries
Post by: mouser on March 27, 2008, 07:11 AM

Even though it's not a dictionary per se, we should take this opportunity to post about the very cool FreeThesaurus.net by DC member Wordzilla (Anderson Hu): https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=8416.0

Title: Re: On-Line Dictionaries
Post by: Perry Mowbray on March 27, 2008, 07:11 AM

• Dict.cc Englisch/Deutsch Wörterbuch (http://www.dict.cc/): [750745 words, More info (http://www.onelook.com/?d=dcc)]
• Dict.cc Englisch/Deutsch Wörterbuch (http://www.dict.cc/): [293932 words, More info (http://www.onelook.com/?d=dcd)]

-Perry Mowbray (March 27, 2008, 06:35 AM)

Yes, I saw that when I was marking it up: they point to the same URI too. Wasn't sure what it meant, but didn't know which one to delete  :D

odd that's listed twice (at onelook.com too) with same url but different amounts of words
must try it out - onelook I mean

-tomos (March 27, 2008, 07:05 AM)

Title: Re: On-Line Dictionaries
Post by: Perry Mowbray on March 27, 2008, 07:14 AM

Even though it's not a dictionary per se, we should take this opportunity to post about the very cool FreeThesaurus.net by DC member Wordzilla (Anderson Hu): https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=8416.0

-mouser (March 27, 2008, 07:11 AM)

Good point!! Maybe we should get FreThesaurus added to OneLook (http://www.onelook.com/?c=faq) (which is why I forgot about it  :-[ )?

Edit: I've just suggested that FreeThesaurus be added.

Title: Re: On-Line Dictionaries
Post by: Dormouse on March 27, 2008, 07:16 AM

Occasionally dictionary.com
Mostly The Sage
Also Online Etymology Dictionary

Title: Re: On-Line Dictionaries
Post by: cmpm on March 27, 2008, 09:11 AM

I voted for dictionary.com.

But I also have this little combo deal with online options.

http://www.free-soft.ro/everest/everest.html

Dropped WordWeb, too annoying.

Title: Re: On-Line Dictionaries
Post by: cmpm on March 27, 2008, 09:37 AM

And I do have WordZilla's thesaurus on my desktop for quick reference.
That comes in very handy.
Plus it can be made into a button for google's toolbar

Title: Re: On-Line Dictionaries
Post by: Lashiec on March 27, 2008, 09:52 AM

I only use online dictionaries (when I'm on the computer, that is), but a pile of them, mostly the Farlex Free Dictionary, FreeThesaurus and the Wikipedia, but also Dictionary.com, Urban Dictionary and, of course, the "Diccionario de la lengua española" (http://buscon.rae.es/draeI/) edited by the "Real Academia Española" (http://www.rae.es/)

Title: Re: On-Line Dictionaries
Post by: housetier on March 27, 2008, 10:58 AM

I see dict.cc has been mentioned already, as well as Leo...

When I want to look up German words, I use canoo.net (http://canoo.net).

As far as I know it's the only free German online dictionary; if there are others (duden.de, pons.de do not offer similar services) please TELL ME! :)

Title: Re: On-Line Dictionaries
Post by: cmpm on March 27, 2008, 11:50 AM

Everest does German.

http://www.free-soft.ro/everest/everest.html

It takes some tweaking to let it do it's online deal.
But it's not that hard.

Title: Re: On-Line Dictionaries
Post by: Deozaan on March 27, 2008, 12:22 PM

I can't really be the only one who Googles for words?

See this little thing:
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It brings this up:

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Title: Re: On-Line Dictionaries
Post by: PhilB66 on March 27, 2008, 12:49 PM

@Deozaan

The address for Google Define is http://www.google.com/search?q=define%3A%s (you could bookmark the link or create a search. saves typing in "define: ..." in the search box.

Title: Re: On-Line Dictionaries
Post by: Deozaan on March 27, 2008, 01:29 PM

@Deozaan

The address for Google Define is http://www.google.com/search?q=define%3A%s (you could bookmark the link or create a search. saves typing in "define: ..." in the search box.

-PhilB66 (March 27, 2008, 12:49 PM)

True, but that would take longer to change my default search from a dropdown list than to type in "define:". And I'm kind of strange because I don't use bookmarks. At all.

Title: Re: On-Line Dictionaries
Post by: nosh on March 27, 2008, 02:01 PM

Definr.com lives up to its claim of being an incredibly fast dictionary.

Title: Re: On-Line Dictionaries
Post by: tomos on March 27, 2008, 02:27 PM

isnt there a FARR Definr.com plugin
http://czb.dcmembers.com/Definr.html

I think Nod5 is working on one for ninjawords.com

Title: Re: On-Line Dictionaries
Post by: iphigenie on March 27, 2008, 04:22 PM

i use ninjawords, nice and fast
www.ninjawords.com
(have it as a search in opera)

Title: Re: On-Line Dictionaries
Post by: housetier on March 27, 2008, 07:12 PM

Everest does German.

-cmpm (March 27, 2008, 11:50 AM)

But not online in a webbrowser.

Title: Re: On-Line Dictionaries
Post by: Perry Mowbray on March 27, 2008, 09:35 PM

i use ninjawords, nice and fast
www.ninjawords.com
(have it as a search in opera)

-iphigenie (March 27, 2008, 04:22 PM)

NinjaWords (http://www.ninjawords.com) has a nice clean interface  :up: , I see it uses Wiktionary (http://www.wikipedia.org/) as its main dictionary (is a vote for Ninja a vote for Wiktionary? Not function wise, but accuracy wise it will be??).

Title: Re: On-Line Dictionaries
Post by: iphigenie on March 28, 2008, 12:18 PM

I'm more interested in any good online thesaurus - thesaurus.com is not really helpful  :(

Title: Re: On-Line Dictionaries
Post by: Nod5 on March 28, 2008, 03:16 PM

There is already a ninjawords plugin for FARR: http://czb.dcmembers.com/ninjawords.html

More details on it here https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=12421.0 , more details on the definr plugin here https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=12350.0

I still prefer ninjawords slightly over definr but they are both really quick.

Title: Re: On-Line Dictionaries
Post by: allen on March 28, 2008, 05:16 PM

I voted m-w and other -- I use m-w's non-free unabridged dictionary as I am a bit of an etymology fanatic. I also use Google when looking more for popular usage rather than precise/detailed definition.

Also worth noting, my loyalty lies forever with m-w.com as an extension of my offline usage of their print volume fr as long as I've been lifting a pen with intentions of putting words to paper. (I hate to type anything not computers in nature. I love ink.)

Title: Re: On-Line Dictionaries
Post by: daledennemeyer on April 24, 2008, 09:12 PM

The one and only greatest is

http://www.bennetyee.org/http_webster.cgi

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Title: Re: On-Line Dictionaries
Post by: erikts on April 24, 2008, 09:49 PM

I voted for Google "define". The fact is I use Google "define" more often than Dictionary.com. Why? I think Google is faster.

Title: Re: On-Line Dictionaries
Post by: CleverCat on April 25, 2008, 02:42 AM

I'm hooked on the ninjaword FARR plugin!  :Thmbsup:

Title: Re: On-Line Dictionaries
Post by: longrun on April 25, 2008, 10:42 AM

I like using ObjectGraph Dictionary http://www.objectgraph.com/dictionary/as a panel in Opera, particularly when I'm doing something that requires frequent searches. It's not as comprehensive as other dictionaries, but the search as you type feature is really cool and using it as a panel means you can view definitions and your work simultaneously.
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Title: Re: On-Line Dictionaries
Post by: longrun on April 25, 2008, 11:12 AM

Sorry folks, my images won't attach properly.

Title: Re: On-Line Dictionaries
Post by: Second Shadow on April 26, 2008, 02:27 AM

Am I the only one who uses The Free Dictionary (http://www.thefreedictionary.com/)?

It's really good. I particularly like the included pronunciation (English not being my native language, that's a life saver), thesaurus and related words.

Plus, they have a handy browser add-on (for both IE and Firefox): http://www.thefreedictionary.com/add2ie.htm

P.S.: they also have an idioms section, as well as specialized dictionaries (Medical, Legal, Financial), a decent encyclopedia, and a section that shows articles from Wikipedia embedded in their website, like this entry for Donation Coder (http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/Donationcoder) :)

Title: Re: On-Line Dictionaries
Post by: housetier on April 28, 2008, 04:31 AM

I like their little games for example "match up". It's a fun way to expand knowlede.

I wish there was something like this for German as well.

Title: Re: On-Line Dictionaries
Post by: Perry Mowbray on May 20, 2010, 01:55 AM

I've actually just started using http://www.macmillandictionary.com/ which seems very nice  :D

Title: Re: On-Line Dictionaries
Post by: cyberdiva on May 20, 2010, 10:04 AM

The dictionaries I use most often are those that translate from various languages into English and vice versa.  And far and away, the best online (or offline) set of dictionaries I know for this are those offered for free at WordReference.com (http://www.wordreference.com/).  The site offers dictionaries in a number of different languages, but I tend to use those for Spanish most often.  What I love about the WordReference dictionaries is that at the end of each entry, they include links to discussions of that word or phrase in the WordReference.com forums.  You thus get a much more nuanced idea of what the word means, how it's used, where it's used or not used, etc. etc.  It's an amazing resource!  :Thmbsup:

Title: Re: On-Line Dictionaries
Post by: Curt on May 20, 2010, 12:30 PM

The poll seems to be missing an "OFF-Line dict's only"... I know the world is full of fantastic dictionaries etcetera, but it is so easy (and common) for me to merely Ctrl+RightClick and see the result at once in Babylon, that I almost never will search another place. Due to money, the best of the dictionaries are already a part of my Babylon: Merriam-Webster Thesaurus & Dictionary, Britannnica Concise Encyclopedia, and of course the free Wikipedia, hEnglish Advanced, etcetera etcetera.

Wikipedia is my favourite on-line thingy, but because I am using Firefox  I have some more on-line machines close at hand:

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Title: Re: On-Line Dictionaries
Post by: cyberdiva on May 20, 2010, 02:28 PM

I know the world is full of fantastic dictionaries etcetera, but it is so easy (and common) for me to merely Ctrl+RightClick and see the result at once in Babylon, that I almost never will search another place.

-Curt (May 20, 2010, 12:30 PM)

Curt, I almost started my message (right above yours) by saying that the first place I generally turn for translating to/from English is Babylon.  I didn't say that because 1) I interpreted the original message as asking about online resources, and 2) when I want to get an even better sense of which word to use and why, I'll turn to WordReference.com.  It covers many words and expressions that Babylon omits, and it often offers more nuanced information about usage.  But I agree that Babylon is terrific.

Title: Re: On-Line Dictionaries
Post by: Curt on May 20, 2010, 04:59 PM

Yes, I agree with you, diva; the thread is about on-line solutions and not about off-liners like Babylon. Otherwise I  WOULD HAVE  displayed this picture from an old thread (https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=2794.msg64233#msg64233) from year 2007:


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Title: Re: On-Line Dictionaries
Post by: adi_barb on May 21, 2010, 06:57 PM

someone should mention babylon dictionary too  :Thmbsup:

Title: Re: On-Line Dictionaries
Post by: daddydave on May 22, 2010, 10:39 AM

One vote for dictionary.com, and one for Google Define (http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=define%3A+subjective&btnG=Search)

Dictionary.com include a lot of etymology information helpful for understanding the deep meaning of a word.

Google Define is very useful when the dictionary definition doesn't tell the whole story, and the meaning of a word is a matter of opinion.

Title: Re: On-Line Dictionaries
Post by: Curt on May 22, 2010, 12:18 PM

Did someone author a script for Firefox, for 'Google Define'?  :tellme:

Title: Re: On-Line Dictionaries
Post by: daddydave on May 22, 2010, 12:57 PM

Did someone author a script for Firefox, for 'Google Define'?  :tellme:

-Curt (May 22, 2010, 12:18 PM)

You could just install Dennis Khong's Google Define (http://mycroft.mozdev.org/search-engines.html?name=google+define) search plugin. (And one of Firefox's most underhyped features since version 3.5 or so is that you can actually assign a keyword to a search plugin from the Manage Search Engines interface which does not require a keyword bookmark, so you get the best of both worlds). I installed it just now and assigned def.
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By the way, the mycroft site, although it looks ancient now, still seems to be the best place to find/submit search plugins. I see some people submitting them to the Firefox addons site, but they are not made distinct from other search-related add-ons.

Title: Re: On-Line Dictionaries
Post by: Curt on May 22, 2010, 01:07 PM

-thanks a lot, daddy!  :up:

Title: Re: On-Line Dictionaries
Post by: housetier on May 22, 2010, 05:14 PM

You can easily add a "search engine" to firefox for almost every site that has a search form: just right-click into the search field and select "Add a Keyword for this search...", give it a name and a (preferably short) keyword.

Now you can type "<keyword> <search query>" in the address bar and firefox will open the search results of that site. I use it frequently for dict.cc and wikipedia, where this approach works very well. Search forms that are submitted by POST are harder or impossible to use this way.

Title: Re: On-Line Dictionaries
Post by: daddydave on May 22, 2010, 06:02 PM

You can easily add a "search engine" to firefox for almost every site that has a search form: just right-click into the search field and select "Add a Keyword for this search...", give it a name and a (preferably short) keyword.

Now you can type "<keyword> <search query>" in the address bar and firefox will open the search results of that site. I use it frequently for dict.cc and wikipedia, where this approach works very well. Search forms that are submitted by POST are harder or impossible to use this way.

-housetier (May 22, 2010, 05:14 PM)

True, that's quicker and I should have mentioned that. Lately I've had a preference for having each search available as both a search plugins and a keyword because of certain add-ons (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/5595/) that work only with the search plugins. One disadvantage of this is that sometimes I have to create the search plugin (http://mycroft.mozdev.org/submitos.html) myself, like I did for DonationCoder (http://mycroft.mozdev.org/search-engines.html?name=donation+coder).