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Resources for Success: Dictionaries

 

All resources listed below have not been validated by KJI and should only be used as reference material. 

Medicine, life sciences:

http://www.bracesinfo.com/glossary.html
Orthodontics, an English dictionary of orthodontic and dental terms

http://www.yi.com/home/EysenbachGunther/wb.htm
Medical computer terminology, a German dictionary of computer-related medical and general terminology with acronyms, over 500 entries and many useful cross-links, maintained by Gunther Eysenbach

http://cancerweb.ncl.ac.uk/omd/
The Online Medical Dictionary, a searchable English medical dictionary

http://www.medicinenet.com/
Health and disease information, follow link to English medical dictionary

http://biotech.icmb.utexas.edu/search/dict-search.html
BioTech's searchable life sciences English dictionary with close to 4000 terms from medicine and the life sciences

http://www.ratiopharm.de/html/otc/lexikon/index.htm
German medical dictionary from ratiopharm, a German manufacturer of pharmaceuticals

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Chemistry, chemical technology, analytics:

http://www-sul.stanford.edu/depts/swain/beilstein/bedict1.html
Beilstein German/English dictionary of organic chemistry terms, searchable in English or German

http://www.chemie.de/tools/dictionary/?language=e
Science dictionary for chemistry, searchable in English and German

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Internet, computing, software:

http://www.css.qmw.ac.uk/foreign/eng-german.htm
English to German dictionary of basic computer terminology

ftp://ftp.microsoft.com/developr/msdn/newup/glossary
Microsoft glossaries, bilingual dictionaries with the official translation of strings in Microsoft products (e.g. Windows 95, NT etc.), free to download

http://www.netlingo.com/
English on-line dictionary of net-related terminology

http://wombat.doc.ic.ac.uk/foldoc/index.html
Searchable English on-line dictionary of computing terms (FOLDOC), with other useful links

http://www.commando.de/glossar/
Browsable on-line dictionary of Internet and computing terms (in German), free to download

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General bi- and multilingual dictionaries:

http://www2.echo.lu/edic
EURODICAUTOM dictionary, the comprehensive multilingual European Union terminology database, searchable for terms and abbreviations in various combinations of 12 source and target languages

http://www.logos.it
LOGOS dictionary, extensive multilingual database with over 7 million entries in more than a 150 languages, maintained by Logos Translation Co. and continously expanding through user input

http://www.langenscheidt.de
Langenscheidt dictionary, a changing selection of at least one Langenscheidt dictionary on-line

http://dict.leo.org/
LEO dictionary, searchable database with over 170,000 entries for English and German terms, includes the new German orthography reform

http://dict.tu-chemnitz.de
German/English dictionary, over 110,000 entries, searchable in English and German

http://www.iee.et.tu-dresden.de/cgi-bin/cgiwrap/wernerr/search.sh
German/English dictionary, with over 180,000 translations, searchable in English and German, can also be downloaded

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General monolingual dictionaries and references:

http://www.m-w.com
The renowned American Merrian-Webster dictionary on the WWW

http://www.eb.com/
Encyclopedia Britannica on the WWW

http://www.thesaurus.com/?
English thesaurus, search Roget's International Thesaurus of the English language

http://www.iicm.edu/ref.m10
Meyers Lexikon - Das Wissen von A - Z, on-line version of Meyers Lexikon, searchable and browsable, in German

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Indexes, listings, compilations of dictionaries, glossaries, encyclopedias, other databases:

http://www.onelook.com
General search for entries in 454 dictionaries with over 2 million entries

http://www-math.uni-paderborn.de/dictionaries/Dictionaries.html
Listings of German and other multi- and monolingual dictionaries.

http://refdesk.com/factnet.html
Reference site with links to a variety of Internet resources, incl. dictionaries, databases and encyclopedias

http://www.facstaff.bucknell.edu/rbeard/diction.html
An index of over 400 on-line dictionaries and glossaries in more than 130 languages

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Other special topic dictionaries and glossaries:

http://userpage.fu-berlin.de/%7Eoheiabbd/moviedict_e.html
Multilingual, searchable and browsable film dictionary

http://cns-web.bu.edu/pub/laliden/WWW/Visionary/Visionary.html
English dictionary for terminology used in the study of human and animal vision, list of other vision related links

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