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Lingro

Christine — Wed, 03 Aug 2011 19:48:34 +0000

Lingro is an excellent tool – a free multilingual AJAX dictionary. Enter a website address in the box, choose your language, click on the arrow and then click on a word you don’t understand – and hey presto – you get the translation. Great!

Online visual dictionary

Christine — Thu, 16 Sep 2010 19:44:31 +0000

You know what something looks like but don’t know what it’s called. You know the word but you cannot picture the object. Perhaps Merriam Webster’s Visual Dictionary can help you.

Visuwords

Christine — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 19:37:32 +0000

Visuwords is an online graphical dictionary. Enter a word to find its meaning and associations with others words and concepts.

An incredibly fast dictionary

Christine — Sun, 20 Jun 2010 19:33:41 +0000

Definr is an incredibly fast dictionary.

Linguee.de

Christine — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 11:30:25 +0000

According to its authors’, you can use Linguee.de to “search for words and expressions in many millions of bilingual texts in English and German. Every expression is accompanied by useful additional information and suitable example sentences.” I looked up the phrase “thank you for your” and came up with some nice examples…

HyperDictionary

Christine — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 20:06:25 +0000

I use this monolingual (English-English) online dictionary very often:

Why not make a habit of finding a new word every day? Most of the words on the site are linked to one another. Click on any word to jump to another page. Excellent!

British v. American English

Christine — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 19:00:17 +0000

The very Best of British offers a wonderful list of words and expressions that differ in British and American English. I would say that it’s a one off!