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ARTFL Project: ROGET'S Thesaurus Search Form

http://humanities.uchicago.edu/forms_unrest/ROGET.html

The ARTFL (American and French Research on the Treasury of the French Language) Project, located at the University of Chicago, have provided this online version of Roget's Thesaurus. The interface is simple--type in the word you want, and the form will return synonyms and antonyms. This site is among PC Magazine's Top 100 Web Sites.

The Climbing Dictionary

http://www.fm.bs.dlr.de/misc/climbing/climbing_dict.html

Browse only dictionary of rock/mountain climbing terms in English, along with translations in German, French, Dutch, Italian, Spanish, Swedish, and Polish.

Dictionary of Cell Biology

http://www.mblab.gla.ac.uk/~julian/Dict.html

Searchable cell biology index. Is the online counterpart to The Dictionary of Cell Biology, 2nd ed., plus some additions.

The Free On-Line Dictionary of Computing

http://wombat.doc.ic.ac.uk/

Searchable dictionary of computer terms. Along with the definition of the term, the site also provide hypertext links to the terms in the dictionary alphabetically immediately before and immediately after the requested term. Also includes a list of links to other reference sites—some general Internet reference sites, some specifically computer reference sites.

Hypertext Webster Interface

http://c.gp.cs.cmu.edu:5103/prog/webster/

A simple way to look up word definitions on the Web. You type in the word you want, click Look up definition, and, within seconds, the Interface returns the definition of the word. For example, a search on "frontier" brought back the word, broke the word down into its components (fron-tier), and provided the definition.

LC Thesaurus for Graphic Material: Topical Terms for Subject Access

http://palimpsest.stanford.edu/lex/lctgm/lctgm.html

This site is for catalogers, indexers, and researchers looking for subject terms to use when indexing or researching pictures and photographs. It can be both browsed and searched by keyword.

STING software engineering glossary

http://dxsting.cern.ch/sting/glossary-intro.html

Searchable by keyword. In addition to definitions of terms, also provides links to sites with more information about selected term.

The WorldWideWeb Acronym and Abbreviation Server

http://www.ucc.ie/info/net/acronyms/acro.html

As simple as it sounds, this site offers a dictionary of acronyms and abbreviations. You can even offer new acronyms to add to their list or request an acronym definition via e-mail if you cannot access the Web!