Dictionaries

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BABEL: A Glossary of Computer Oriented Abbreviations and Acronyms

Biographical Dictionary

Includes more than 28,000 notable men and women

Cambridge International Dictionaries

Provides online access to Cambridge Dictionary of American English, Cambridge International Dictionary of English, Cambridge International Dictionary of Phrasal Verbs or Cambridge International Dictionary of Idioms.  These dictionaries are especially designed for international or second-language users

Dictionary of Sensibility

An approach towards understanding the language of eighteenth-century sensibility

FOLDOC: Free On-Line Dictionary of Computing

Geographic Names Information System (USGS)

Useful searchable database of information about geographic features of the U.S., including mountains, rivers, creeks, towns, and more. “ Contains information for almost 2 million physical and cultural geographic features in the United States and its territories.”

Lexeme-Morpheme Base Morphology

On Line Medical Dictionaries and Journals

Compiled by National Women's Health Information Center

ODLIS: Online Dictionary of Library and Information Science

Created by Joan M. Reitz, Assistant Professor/Instruction Librarian at the Ruth A. Haas Library, Western Connecticut State University

U.S. Gazetteer

"This gazetteer is used to identify places to view with the Tiger Map Server and obtain census data from the 1990 Census Lookup server. You can search for places, counties or MCDs by entering the name and state abbreviation (optional), or 5-digit zip code."

The WorldWideWeb Acronym and Abbreviation Server

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