Date: Fri, 10 Oct 1997 02:55:52 -0400 (EDT)
From: Lenimar Nunes de Andrade 
Subject: [Internet-PB] Dictionaries and Encyclopedias

Dictionaries and Encyclopedias:

http://www.sau.edu/cwis/internet/wild/Refdesk/Encyclo/encindex.htm
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http://www.encyberpedia.com/ency.htm
Encyberpedia: links to all kinds of net encyclopedias. 

http://clever.net/cam/encyclopedia.html
Free Internet Encyclopedia

http://encarta.msn.com/EncartaHome.asp
Encarta Encyclopedia

http://www.yahoo.com/Reference/Encyclopedia/
Encyclopedia OnLine

http://www.onelook.com/
OneLook Dictionary - type in the  word you want, and search 
simultaneous through 29 general or specialized dictionaries.

http://www.cogsci.princeton.edu/~wn/w3wn.old.html
Thesaurus: WordNet 1.5

http://www.yahoo.com/Reference/Dictionaries/
Yahoo Index to Dictionaries - all types of dictionaries.

http://www.hoh.org/~masterstech/ASLDict.spml
American Sign Language Dictionary

http://www.travlang.com/languages/
Foreign Language for Travelers

http://www.yahoo.com/Reference/Dictionaries/French_English/
French/English Dictionaries

http://www.yahoo.com/Reference/Dictionaries/German_English/
German/English Dictionaries

http://curia.ucc.ie/cgi-bin/acronym/
Acronyms Database, Searchable

http://www.knight.org/advent/cathen/
Catholic Encyclopedia: the 1913 edition

http://www.goshen.net/ebd/
Easton's Bible Dictionary

http://www.webcom.com/one/world/weight.html
Conversion Tables for Weights, Measures, Temperatures

http://www.healthgate.com/healthy/dict/glossA.html
Dictionary of Medical Terms

http://www.mk.net/~dt/Bibliomania/Reference/PhraseAndFable/
Dictionary of Phrase and Fable

http://www.euro.net/innovation/Finance_Base/Fin_encyc.html
International Financial Encyclopedia.

http://www.ics.uci.edu/pub/websoft/wwwstat/country-codes.txt
Internet Country Codes -  what the 2-letter country codes in
domain names refer to.

http://www.browncs.com/wordsfrm.html
Internet Glossary - search by "words you MUST know, words you
SHOULD know, acronyms, or just alphabetically.

http://www.imdb.com/search.html
Internet Movie Database

http://www.lectlaw.com/ref.html
Lawcopedia:  Legal dictionary and reference room

http://www.euro.net/innovation/Management_Base/Mantec.Dictionary.html
Management and Technology Dictionary.

http://www.engr.uvic.ca/~mcampbel/etym.html
Names: Their meanings and origins.

http://www.fairacre.demon.co.uk/
Onomastikon - this dictionary of  names allows you to ask about 
almost  any  kind  of  name  - by  country of origin (including
substantial information on non-European names), by time period,
by name derivation - names taken from trades, from places, from
physical attributes, personal names derived from surnames etc.

http://www.sandybay.com:80/pc-web/
PC Webopedia - a dictionary/encyclopedia about personal computers

http://www.blender.com/blender1.1/digest/popspeak/popspeak1.html
Popspeak:  How to understand the language of the MTV generation.

http://www.wave.net/upg/immigration/sic_index.html
Standard Industrial Classification Scheme

http://www.techweb.com/encyclopedia/defineterm.cgi
TechWeb Technology Encyclopedia - defines over 10,000 technology
terms.

http://www.xe.net/currency/
Universal Currency Converter: How many pounds, zlotys, lira,
to your dollar?

http://www.cio.com/WebMaster/wmlearned.html
What We Learned on the Web Today: A fun place to visit for random
pieces of knowledge, with links to sites where found.

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Last updated October 3, 1997