Sunday, April 12, 2009

list from onelook.com/browse.shtml

General dictionaries and glossaries indexed by the OneLook® search engine:

Compact Oxford English Dictionary: [41947 words, 22Nov2008, More info] - contacted ann 4/11
The Word Spy: [2628 words, 30Mar2009, More info] Paul McFedries - not a real dictionary....
V2 Vocabulary Building Dictionary: [2042 words, 30Mar2009, More info] - word builder product
Encarta® World English Dictionary, North American Edition: [107301 words, 14Aug2003, More info]
Merriam-Webster's Online Dictionary, 11th Edition: [107545 words, 27Sep2008, More info]
Cambridge International Dictionary of English: [66408 words, 19Nov2007, More info]
InfoVisual Visual Dictionary: [3884 words, 9Apr2006, More info]
Wiktionary: [580200 words, 22Feb2009, More info]
Reuse terms - Not at all clear. It seems that I could bring over the wiktionary, have it available on the site and query my copy of it. posted at:


Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.: [80134 words, 15Sep2008, More info]
The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus: [47719 words, 09.01.2001, More info]
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: [89248 words, 24Dec2008, More info]
Infoplease Dictionary: [127110 words, 25May2008, More info]
Dictionary.com: [775929 words, 1Apr2008, More info]
Online Etymology Dictionary: [21462 words, 30Mar2009, More info]
UltraLingua English Dictionary: [103294 words, 22Jan2009, More info]
Cambridge Dictionary of American English: [37791 words, 4Jul2002, More info]
Cambridge International Dictionary of Idioms: [5132 words, 4Jul2002, More info]
Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia: [3201550 words, 2Sep2007, More info]
Cambridge International Dictionary of Phrasal Verbs: [1929 words, 4Jul2002, More info]
Online Plain Text English Dictionary: [111778 words, 5Sep2007, More info]
Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition: [88773 words, 31Oct2003, More info]
Rhymezone: [229780 words, 23Dec2008, More info]
CMU Pronouncing: [118581 words, 18Nov2007, More info]
My Hebrew Dictionary: [974 words, 16Apr2008, More info]
Grandiloquent Dictionary: [2039 words, 10Aug2008, More info]
Faclair G?idhlig - Beurla Gaelic - English Dictionary: [5173 words, 26Dec2008, More info]
AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary: [175063 words, 12Aug2002, More info]
R-O-Matic Italian/English Dictionary: [3504 words, 14Sep2007, More info]
The Spoken Taino Language: [334 words, 13Dec2007, More info]
GREEK-SERBIAN DICTIONARY: [3932 words, 3Sep2007, More info]
Strange and Unusual Dictionaries: [1769 words, 20Oct2007, More info]
Langtolang English from/to French dictionary: [20075 words, 29Aug2002, More info]
Webster's 1828 Dictionary: [62949 words, 27May2008, More info]
1500 acronymes de l'�cole: [8239 words, 18Nov2007, More info]
18 LANGUAGES MULTILINGUAL DICTIONARY: [9309 words, 10Mar2006, More info]
1911 edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica: [34595 words, 31Jul2008, More info]
A to Z list of the most popular idioms: [207 words, 21Nov2008, More info]
ANTIDICO (L') - LE DICTIONNAIRE DES MOTS ABSENTS DES AUTRES DICTIONNAIRES: [7027 words, 18Jan2009, More info]
All About Homonyms: [1506 words, 18Nov2007, More info]
American-Britih Dictionary: [362 words, 29Nov2008, More info]
Bali: The Online Travel Guide: [978 words, 26Sep2008, More info]
Britih-American Dictionary: [365 words, 29Nov2008, More info]
Celtic Dictionary: [129 words, 17Aug2008, More info]
Chinese Characters: [398 words, 29Aug2002, More info]
Cl�sica expresi�n Canaria: [320 words, 25May2008, More info]
Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition: [50831 words, 18Nov2007, More info]
Columbia Gazetteer of North America: [33247 words, 12Mar2008, More info]
Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition (Encyclopedia.com): [7267 words, 5Mar2006, More info]
Dict.cc Englisch/Deutsch Wörterbuch: [750745 words, 15Mar2006, More info]
Dict.cc Englisch/Deutsch Wörterbuch: [293932 words, 15Dec2007, More info]
Dictionary of Americanisms (1848): [2158 words, 5Sep2007, More info]
Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898): [14825 words, 11Apr2003, More info]
Dictionary/thesaurus: [412668 words, 18Jan2009, More info]
Dizionario Esoterico: [1855 words, 14Mar2006, More info]
Double-Tongued Word Wrester: [1249 words, 13Dec2007, More info]
E Cobham Brewer, The Reader's Handbook: [5277 words, 29Aug2002, More info]
ESL Idiom Page: [401 words, 21Aug2008, More info]
Election glossary: [61 words, 17Feb2009, More info]
Encarta® Online Encyclopedia, North American Edition: [4994 words, 26Aug2003, More info]
Etymologically Speaking: [236 words, 10Aug2008, More info]
Etymologies & Word Origins: [429 words, 4Mar2006, More info]
Eurodict Online: [81035 words, 23Jan2009, More info]
Foreign Words and Phrases: [73 words, 28Nov2008, More info]
Free Dictionary: [254453 words, 18Feb2008, More info]
GREEK-CATALAN DICTIONARY: [2470 words, 13Jan2009, More info]
GREEK-ENGLISH DICTIONARY: [2403 words, 22Nov2008, More info]
GREEK-SLAVONIC (LANGUAGE OF THE FORMER YUGOSLAV REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA: [3776 words, 9Feb2009, More info]
Gaelic Language (Manx): [48957 words, 18Nov2007, More info]
General English-Spanish: [20735 words, 29Aug2002, More info]
Hutchinson Dictionaries: [17065 words, 15Apr2008, More info]
Hutchinson's Dictionary of Difficult Words: [14455 words, 13Dec2007, More info]
Japanese Kanji & Chinese Calligraphy Dictionary: [1958 words, 26Jan2009, More info]
Langtolang: [51081 words, 29Aug2002, More info]
Le Dicomoche: [553 words, 10Oct2002, More info]
Lexical FreeNet (shows word connections): [134189 words, 4Jul2002, More info]
Logos Multilingual E-translation Portal: [60678 words, 21Nov2008, More info]
LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus: [187425 words, 22Nov2008, More info]
Luciferous Logolepsy: [9029 words, 17Aug2008, More info]
Mnemonic Dictionary: [147153 words, 26Dec2008, More info]
My Hebrew Picture Dictionary: [180 words, 24Sep2008, More info]
MyWord.info: [2507 words, 13Feb2009, More info]
New English Words: [112 words, 24Dec2008, More info]
OneLook Dictionaries "Frequently Asked Words" (FAW): [1 words, 4Jul2002, More info]
Online Talking Dictionary: [293864 words, 18Jan2009, More info]
Phrasal Verb Page: [173 words, 17May2003, More info]
Phrase Finder: [939 words, 11Feb2009, More info]
Robb: German English: [439 words, 14Mar2006, More info]
Robb: Swahili English: [31 words, 15Apr2008, More info]
Russian dictionary: [157 words, 25Mar2006, More info]
Siglas de Organizaciones en Guatemala: [981 words, 28Nov2003, More info]
Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms: [23068 words, 20Oct2007, More info]
The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy: [6639 words, 13Dec2007, More info]
The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words: [16690 words, 10Aug2008, More info]
The Word Detective: [1601 words, 22Dec2008, More info]
The Free Dictionary: [49963 words, 13Jan2009, More info]
The Free Dictionary: [49756 words, 18Jan2009, More info]
The Free Dictionary: [49803 words, 18Jan2009, More info]
The Free Dictionary: [5417 words, 18Jan2009, More info]
The Free Dictionary: [41088 words, 18Jan2009, More info]
The Free Dictionary: [20162 words, 18Jan2009, More info]
The Free Dictionary: [23409 words, 18Jan2009, More info]
The Free Dictionary: [49756 words, 21Jan2009, More info]
The Free Dictionary: [24247 words, 21Jan2009, More info]
Turkish Acronyms to live by: [138 words, 15Mar2006, More info]
Typographical Errors in Library Databases: [5114 words, 16Nov2008, More info]
UVic Writer's Guide: [319 words, 23Jan2009, More info]
UltraLingua French Dictionary: [38910 words, 25Jan2009, More info]
Urdu/English Dictionary: [118573 words, 23Jan2009, More info]
VERBAL VESTIGIA (Words Hanging On By A Single Phrase): [50 words, 29Aug2002, More info]
Virdainas - a Sudovian Dictionary: [5918 words, 21Sep2003, More info]
Who2: [3321 words, 22Feb2009, More info]
Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations: [7192 words, 10Feb2009, More info]
WordNet 1.7 Vocabulary Helper: [119160 words, 2Aug2003, More info]
World Wide Words: [2219 words, 22Jan2009, More info]
Worthless Word For The Day: [4003 words, 30Mar2009, More info]
Ye Olde English Sayings: [41 words, 24Dec2008, More info]
Yiddish-Hebrew-English-German-Russian Picture Dictionary: [186 words, 25Mar2006, More info]
bab.la: [512709 words, 23Dec2007, More info]

Online dictionaries to use

Looking for free online dictionaries with definitions, antonyms, synonyms, phonetics, tenses, and example usage.

Wordnet from Princeton U.
Lexiteria - not free- contacted 4/10
As-U-Read - from Fanix - contacted 4/11
http://wordweb.info/ - very promising
should I try chatterblox on vocab as an affiliate?

TheFreeDictionary.com by farlex.com - contacted 4/11
http://www.onelook.com/browse.shtml - wow, what a resource!


Wordweb for horse: Not the simplest definition....
Noun: horse hors
Solid-hoofed herbivorous quadruped domesticated since prehistoric times- Equus caballus
A padded gymnastic apparatus on legs- gymnastic horse
Troops trained to fight on horseback"500 horse led the attack"; "500 horse cavalry led the attack"- cavalry, horse cavalry
A framework for holding wood that is being sawed- sawhorse, sawbuck [N. Amer], buck
A chessman shaped to resemble the head of a horse; can move two squares horizontally and one vertically (or vice versa)- knightVerb: horse hors
Provide with a horse or horses
Sounds like: hoarse
Derived forms: horses, horsed, horsing
See also: equine, horse-drawn
Type of: cater, chess piece, chessman, equid, equine, exerciser, framework, gymnastic apparatus, military personnel, ply, provide, soldiery, supply, troops
Part of: Equus, genus Equus
Encyclopedia: Horse Horse, Akhal-teke Horse, Przewalski's

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