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Starting Points
Recommended Websites
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Dictionary of common acronyms, abbreviations, and initialisms.
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Provides search capability of words in various Cambrdige University Press dictionaries, including Lerner's, Advanced Learner's, American English, Idioms, Phrasal Verbs, French/English, and Spanish/English.
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Self-description: "A dictionary-database of CJK characters and compounds related to East Asian cultural, political, and intellectual history of pre-modern texts, from Zhou dynasty materials to 19th century writings. Including information on Chinese terminology derived from Confucianism, Daoism, secular literature, poetry, and historical works."
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An essential online bibliographies of Chinese studies. The site contains: Introduction to Classical Chinese Historiography; Relevant Electronic Resources for Chinese Studies; Dictionaries; Selected List Of Bibliographical & Geographical Aids ; Biographical Aids; Some Aids For Translating Chinese Official Titles & Institutions; Reference Guide to Classical Book Titles; The Four Parts; Bibliography of Chinese Classics & Literature In …
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Provides a summary of most of the units of measurement to be found in use around the world today (and a few of historical interest), together with the appropriate conversion factors needed to change them into a 'standard' unit of the SI.
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Self-discription: "This dictionary is a compilation of Buddhist terms, texts, temple, schools, persons, etc. found in Buddhist canonical sources"
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Contains brief definitions of topical words and phrases.
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GlossPost is a list for translators, interpreters, terminologists and technical writers to post the URLs of any interesting glossaries or dictionaries found on the Internet, whether monolingual, bilingual or multilingual.
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Presents a directory of reference resources on the Internet, as part of the Internet Public Library. Offers access to almanacs, biographies, census data, dictionaries, encyclopedia, genealogy resources, news sites, quotations, and telephone directories.
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The web edition of Lin Yutang's Chinese-English Dictionary of Modern Usage. Search by head character search, and full text search. The site includes Chinese characters radicals, Pinyin table, and abbreviations.
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Provides searching capability of the Merrian-Webster online dictionary and Merriam-Webster online thesaurus.
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Search engine to find definitions or translations of words and phrases that links to web-based dictionaries that define or translate that word. More than 5 million words in more than 900 online dictionaries are indexed by the OneLook® search engine.
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Contains the meanings and origins of English language phrases, sayings and idioms.
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A guide to the online reference resources at KU Libraries
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American English dictionary with integrated thesaurus.
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Contains dictionaries, language dictionaries, abbreviations and acronymns, thesauri, and subject dictionaries.
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Chinese word dictionary. The online version of the Zhongwen zi pu: Chinese characters: a genealogy and dictionary, which uses the new zipu system of character trees. The print version is distributed by Yale University Press and it is available from Amazon.com.



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