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Cambridge International Dictionaries Online
<http://dictionary.cambridge.org/>
A free service, visitors can search the Cambridge International Dictionary of English, the Cambridge International Dictionary of Phrasal Verbs, and the Cambridge International Dictionary of Idioms, and can compare British, American and Australian English variations.
The Compleat Lexical Tutor
<http://132.208.224.131/>
From the universities of Quebec and Montreal: a selection of tools and tutoring systems with online dictionaries and concordancers in English/French. Also check out the bookbox: online stories for all age groups with 'certificate rating' given.
Free-Translator.com
<http://www.free-translator.com>
According to their site description: "A selection of the best free translators, dictionaries and language courses on the web. Easy to use, and for all languages." Comment: "all languages" seems to be stretching the truth slightly, as the translation facilities seem to be oriented mainly towards European and similar languages. Options to translate into Chinese and Japanese are available, though from a brief check, apparently not Arabic, for example. But a very handy set of links.
Giant Picture Dictionary
<http://home.earthlink.net/~wflint/GPD/index.html>
Free online picture dictionary: "Type a word - see a picture. Learn the names of animals, countries, household items, and more!" It works. Definitely worth a look!
LookWAYup Dictionary/Thesaurus and Translation
<http://lookwayup.com/free/dictionary.htm>
"LookWAYup is a large online English dictionary that tolerates small spelling errors (U.S. or English spelling), shows definitions for multiple senses of the word, and for each sense shows synonyms, related terms, and usage examples. It optionally translates that sense to French, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, or German or vice-versa. Within the dictionary, you can double-click on any word in the definition to define it. It can also be installed on browsers, web sites, PDAs, and mobile phones." Restricted features (registration fee = 15USD) include: "translation, suppression of ads, "look harder" extended spelling correction, additional usage examples and linguistic information, the ability to select features, the ability to select from a long list of search engines and dictionaries."
Comments: LookWAYup corrected my misspelling of 'baccalureate' to 'baccalaureate' and found a true definition, which is a pretty cool feature, if you aren't sure of the spelling of a word. However, it couldn't find a definition for 'CUL8R' (= see you later in short form) but included an option to search on the Web with Google, and that was immediately successful. So, in summary, it seems pretty useful. Paying for the restricted features, which I haven't tried, would seem to bring many useful enhancements.
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