Acronym
and Abbreviation Server: An acronym and word search engine.
Foreignword - The Language
Site: "Access 230+ online dictionaries for 69 languages
such as English, German, Spanish, Italian, Dutch, Chinese, more..."
Glossaries: One
of the most comprehensive subject indexes covering over 2,200 dictionary
links and multilingual resources selected by Frank Dietz, who holds
a Ph.D. in English-German, ATA-Accredited Translator (English-German).
Index
of Multilingual Dictionaries: A list of links to many language
dictionaries including computer language, ASL, and linguistics.
KnightCite: The Hekman Library of Calvin College has provided this online citation generator service to assist students with citations for the three main academic styles: MLA, APA, and Chicago. The service is provided free of charge by the college, and although not required, those who choose to register on the site will have the option of saving all of their citations and multiple bibliographies to their account.
Created by Calvin College digital librarian Greg Sennema and Programmer Justin Searls, and supported by Calvin's ALIVE (Advanced Learning in Virtual Environments) program.
Language & Translation
Center: Jim Martindale's reference guide to indigenous languages
of North America, English and other languages, including links
to sign language and braille.
Reference Site of the Day:
This site features useful and authoritative reference sources that can aid librarians and researchers in their work, as well as engage anyone interested in the web beyond the immediate results turned up by web search engines.
Designed and maintained by Alexandra Sarkozy, Reference Librarian, New York City Hospitals.
Rhetorical
Figures: A glossary of Rhetorical terms with examples supported
by Kentucky Classics.
YourDictionary: The
widest and deepest set of language dictionaries online covering over
260 known languages.
Visual Thesaurus Online
Edition: "The Visual Thesaurus accesses data from WordNet,
a publicly available lexical reference system developed by the
Cognitive Science Laboratory at Princeton University. This database,
inspired by psycholinguistic theories of human lexical memory,
contains over 50,000 words and 40,000 phrases collected into more
than 70,000 sense meanings."
Webref: Multiple selection
of glossaries providing several hundred terms in each subject
discipline in the physical, social, biological sciences,
and asthetic arts.
WordReference: "WordReference
can be used as a free online dictionary. Type in a word
in the forms to the left for a quick definition. There are
four multilingual translation dictionaries and one extremely
big English dictionary."
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