- 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue
- Ask
- Ask Define
- Bartleby Reference
- Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable
- Columbia Encyclopedia
- Credo Reference
- Dictionary, Thesaurus, Rhyming, Quotations, Anagrams, Computing Dictionaries and Other Online Dictionaries
- Encyclopaedia Britannica
- Encyclopedia.com
- General Library
- Glossarist
- Information Please
- Internet Acronym Server
- Internet Dictionary Project
- KnowPlay
- Mediaeater Reference Desk
- Newbury House Online Dictionary
- Onelook Dictionary Search
- Online Dictionary
- Research-It!
- Roget's II: The New Thesaurus
- Roget's Thesaurus
- Roget's Thesaurus Search Form
- Taxonomy Warehouse
- Thinkmap Visual Thesaurus
- Wikipedia
- Wordsmyth: The Educational Dictionary-Thesaurus
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- 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue
- Reprint of the author's Lexicon balatronicum; a dictionary of buckish slang, university wit, and pickpocket eloquence.
Author: Grose, Francis
DeweyClass: 820
- Ask
- An enquiry and reference service which uses natural language processing to understand and match users' questions to an extensive knowledge base consisting of thousands of question templates and researched answers. The Ask Jeeves knowledge base is built by people, not by software, and therefore answers are claimed to be relevant to the question asked.
Author: Ask.com
DeweyClass: 030
- Ask Define
- English language meta-dictionary and thesaurus offering definitions from various online and physical reference sources. Uses predictive auto-complete forms to suggest words when searching and lists synonyms, related words and antoynms, which can be browsed as hyperlinks. Translations of words are provided in over 60 languages.
Author: AskDefine
DeweyClass: 030
- Bartleby Reference
- Searchable versions of the Columbia Encyclopaedia, the American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, and Roget's II: The New Thesaurus, brought together by this general reference resource. Also offers reference publications dealing with English usage, quotations, religion and mythology, literary history and literature, anatomy, cooking, etiquette, and parliamentary procedure and government.
Author: Bartleby
DeweyClass: 030
- Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable
- Hypertext edition of a searchable and browsable dictionary which gives definitions and explanations of terms, cliches, phrases, and turns of phrase. Extensively cross referenced, it is taken from Dr. Brewer's substantially revised and extended edition of 1894.
Author: Brewer, E. Cobham
DeweyClass: 030
- Columbia Encyclopedia
- Containing nearly 51,000 entries, and with more than 80,000 hypertext cross-references, this is the sixth edition of the Columbia Encyclopedia.
Author: Columbia
DeweyClass: 030
- Credo Reference
- Search engine indexing information found in encyclopaedias, dictionaries, thesauri, books of quotations, and subject based reference works. On entering a keyword or phrase, a range of reference material such as definitions, synonyms, and details of usage are returned.
Author: xrefer
DeweyClass: 030
- Dictionary, Thesaurus, Rhyming, Quotations, Anagrams, Computing Dictionaries and Other Online Dictionaries
- A meta-index for locating definitions, quotations, thesauri entries, or anagrams of English phrases or computing terms by searching across a range of sources on the Internet.
Author: Chuck Langenberg Company
DeweyClass: 030
- Encyclopaedia Britannica
- Reference resource searchable by keyword, phrase, or question. A selection of atlases, year reviews, subject areas, and timelines are browsable. Access to full features is restricted to subscribers.
Author: Encyclopaedia Britannica
DeweyClass: 030
- Encyclopedia.com
- Aims to give Internet users a simple, one-stop site to begin their research and answer basic questions, with information taken from the Concise Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia. It offers over 17,000 diverse articles.
Author: Infonautics Corporation
DeweyClass: 030
- General Library
- Gateway encompassing dictionaries, quick reference material and search engines. Also offers access to wide range of desktop tools.
Author: Tech Systems
DeweyClass: 030
- Glossarist
- Provides a searchable directory of glossaries and topical dictionaries. Glossaries can be browsed by topic, including arts and culture, business, education, health, science, and transport.
Author: Bone, Warwick
DeweyClass: 030
- Information Please
- Online access to a series of almanacs, encyclopaedias and dictionaries, providing a fast and free reference service. Major categories are the world, the USA, living, sports, people, society, entertainment, business and economics, and science and technology.
Author: Information Please
DeweyClass: 030
- Internet Acronym Server
- Searchable list of acronyms (abbreviations constructed from the first letters of the words of a phrase), not a dictionary or encyclopaedia.
Author: Silmaril
DeweyClass: 030
- Internet Dictionary Project
- Initiative enabling individuals to assist in the translation of English words into other languages.
Author: Chambers, Tyler
DeweyClass: 030
- KnowPlay
- Search interface to a range of online dictionaries, thesauri, encyclopedias, and quotation and acronym collections. Offers country access to the MapQuest service, and searching of the CIA World Factbook and Artcyclopedia services.
Author: KPlay
DeweyClass: 030
- Mediaeater Reference Desk
- Links to online reference tools to aid productivity, such as dictionaries, atlases, laws, and fact books.
Author: Mediaeater
DeweyClass: 030
- Newbury House Online Dictionary
- Online US dictionary that contains over 40,000 entries, and provides definitions, sample sentences, idioms, and cultural facts.
Author: Monroe Allen Publishers
DeweyClass: 030
- Onelook Dictionary Search
- A search engine for words and phrases. Provides a list of web-based dictionaries that define or translate words. More than 5 million words in more than 900 online dictionaries are indexed.
Author: Onelook
DeweyClass: 030
- Online Dictionary
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Author: Interapple
DeweyClass: 030
- Research-It!
- Single page with numerous search boxes, providing a quick method of accessing serveral diverse reference sources such as dictionaries, language translators, maps, biographies, quotations, US telephone diectories, postal services and financial tools.
Author: iTools
DeweyClass: 030
- Roget's II: The New Thesaurus
- Updated version of the online thesaurus containing 35,000 entries. Provides a category index displaying synonyms and antonyms, and an alphabetical index of individual terms.
Author: Bartleby
DeweyClass: 030
- Roget's Thesaurus
- Supplemented with over 1,000 words not present in the original 1911 edition.
Author: Roget, Peter Mark
DeweyClass: 030
- Roget's Thesaurus Search Form
- Online version of Roget's Thesaurus 1911 edition from the ARTFL project at the University of Chicago.
Author: University of Chicago
DeweyClass: 030
- Taxonomy Warehouse
- Searchable and browsable directory of taxonomies, ontologies, authority files, classification schemes, and thesauri. Each entry has a record providing the resource's name, publisher, subject category covered, a description, preferred terms, non preferred terms, relationships, levels, notation scheme (yes/no), languages presented in, formats, access details, and total number of terms and top terms, all where applicable. An email alerting service offers to update registrants with details of new taxonomies as soon as they are added to the warehouse.
Author: Synapse
DeweyClass: 030
- Thinkmap Visual Thesaurus
- Interactive tool exploring the structure of the English language and relationships between words and concepts. Users can enter a word which is then displayed in the centre of a spatial map showing connections to related terms. Any term within this display can them be selected in turn to retrieve its associated terms.
Author: Thinkmap
DeweyClass: 030
- Wikipedia
- Wikipedia is a multilingual, web-based, open access encyclopedia project. Articles provide links to guide the user to related pages offering additional information, and are written collaboratively by volunteers from all around the world. In mid 2008 there were more than 10,000,000 articles in more than 250 languages. Visitors do not need specialised qualifications to contribute or edit articles. All of the text in Wikipedia, and most of the images and other content, is covered by the GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL).
Author: Wikipedia contributors and Wikipedia Foundation
DeweyClass: 030
- Wordsmyth: The Educational Dictionary-Thesaurus
- Educational American English dictionary with an integrated thesaurus. Includes a search engine enabling narrow or broad-based searches for definitions and synonyms.
Author: Wordsmyth Collaboratory
DeweyClass: 030
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