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Desk References
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Last Updated: 09/01/02
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- Desktop
References (University of Toronto) - featuring:
- Acronym Search
- Bartlett's Familiar Quotations
- Canadian Resources
- Internet Glossaries & Dictionaries
- Quick Facts & Look-ups
- Roget's Thesaurus
- Science
- Dictionary.com
- includes Thesaurus, Writing Resources, and more.
- Grammar
Gremlins & Word Trippers
- Language
Info Zone
- Logophilia
- A web site for word lovers, includes these features:
- Word Spy
- Words about Words
- Word Play
- Scrabble Search
- The Descrabbler
- Word Prospector
- RefDesk.com
- proclaiming the single "best source" for fact on the
Net.
- RensSearch
- a few links on this site are to subscription databases, but
there is a lot that does not. Some of the reference room features:
- Abbreviations & Acronyms
- Almanacs
- Books Reviews
- Encyclopedias
- Hot Topics in the News
- Maps
- Newspapers
- Statistics and Data
- The
Visual Thesaurus - an exploration of sense relationships
within the English language. By clicking on words, you follow a
thread of meaning, creating a spatial map of linguistic
associations.
- Your
Dictionary.com - some incredibly cool language tools, including:
- Nyms & such
- Grammar Guides
- Specialty Dictionaries (from
A, Accounting, to W, Wine. There's
even a Chocolate Dictionary!)
- Multilingual Dictionaries
- Language Dictionaries (in
260 Languages)
- Translation Dictionaries
- Word
of the Day Resource
- Wordsmith.org
(home of A.Word.A.Day, Internet Anagram Server, The
Wordserver,
Listat)
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