Friday, 11 January 2008

Useful Internet Resources which quote from HKUST LIBRARY and TerrysTerrace Space

 

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    Internet Resources which quote from HKUST LIBRARY

    Internet Resources which quote from HKUST LIBRARY

    • 國語辭典

      Developed by Dept. of Education of Taiwan, this comprehensive Chinese dictionary provides rich entries on words and phrases of all subjects, biographies of Chinese and foreigners. It is equipped with a sophisticated search engine and includes 11 full text books on Chinese philology and 19 appendixes which can be used as handbooks.

      (Added: 10-Jan-2000   /   Hits [2007- ]: 8)

    • 漢字字典=Dictionary of Chinese Characters

      A searchable dictionary of pronunciations and meanings of Mandarin, Cantonese, and Hakka (Kejia) for 53,000+ Chinese characters. Multiple search methods include Hanyu Pinyin, Cantonese, English, four-corner, bushou (radicals), etc.

      (Added: 22-Mar-2002   /   Hits [2007- ]: 5)

    • 異體字字典 = Dictionary of Chinese Character Variants

      Created and maintained by Mandarin Promotion Council, Ministry of Education, R.O.C., this dictionary contains more than 10 thousands characters and can be searched by strokes and radicals. It also includes many useful tables.

      (Added: 9-Oct-2001   /   Hits [2007- ]: 2)

    • 詞霸搜索

      An online English-Chinese, Chinese-English dictionary. Some entries have online pronunciation available.

      (Added: 8-Sep-2005   /   Hits [2007- ]: 5)

    • Acronym Finder

      Provides a searchable database containing over 60,000 acronyms/abbreviations and their meanings. The focus of the database is technology, telecommunications, and the military, but many general topics are also included. Users can also search for acronyms related to a particular word or topic using the advanced search function.

      (Added: 4-Dec-1998   /   Hits [2007- ]: 4)

    • Acronyma

      An index of over 450,000 acronyms and abbreviations. May search by word or by acronym.

      (Added: 14-Nov-2005   /   Hits [2007- ]: 2)

    • American Heritage Book of English Usage

      Catagoried into 10 chapters including grammar, style, word choice, science terms, gender, names and labels, pronunciation, word formation, e-mail, and a grammar toolkit. Searchable by keywords.

      (Added: 22-Dec-2003   /   Hits [2007- ]: 8)

    • Bartleby.com : Great Books Online HOT!

      Offers complete electronic version of preeminent contemporary reference works, e.g. Columbia Encyclopedia; The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language; Simpson's Contemporary Quotations; Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, etc. There are also full text of many classic works, e.g. Complete Works of William Shakespeare, Oxford Book of English Verse, etc.

      (Added: 17-Nov-1999   /   Hits [2007- ]: 10)

    • Cambridge Dictionaries Online HOT!

      Includes Cambridge International Dictionary of English, Cambridge Dictionary of American English, Cambridge International Dictionary of Idioms, and Cambridge International Dictionary of Phrasal Verbs. Each word is accompanied by an example on how the word is used in a sentence.

      (Added: 13-Jan-2001   /   Hits [2007- ]: 16)

    • Dictionary of Phrase and Fable

      Comprises over 18,000 entries that reveal the etymologies, trace the origins and otherwise catalog 'words with a tale to tell.' This is the 1898 edition of the print copy.

      (Added: 13-Mar-1998   /   Hits [2007- ]: 0)

    • Dictionary of Slang

      A reference guide to the slangs and colloquialisms common to the British speech. The origins of the expressions are included, if known.

      (Added: 18-Jun-2002   /   Hits [2007- ]: 3)

    • Dictionary.com: Translator

      A language translator to translate from English to other languages including Chinese, Japanese, Korean, etc. and vice versa.

      (Added: 11-Oct-2004   /   Hits [2007- ]: 1)

    • Language Dictionaries and Translators

      Provides links to many multi-lingual dictionaries and language translators. Users can also find information on language software, language resources, free online languages courses, and so on.

      (Added: 13-Mar-1998   /   Hits [2007- ]: 0)

    • LOGOS Dictionary

      This freely accessible database has over 7,000,000 entries in 30 languages. Users can type in a word and the database will translate the word in different languages.

      (Added: 13-Mar-1998   /   Hits [2007- ]: 1)

    • Merriam-Webster Online

      The World Wide Web edition of Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, Tenth Edition and Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Thesaurus. Other features includes Word of the Day, Word Game, and Word of the Wise.

      (Added: 29-Jan-1997   /   Hits [2007- ]: 6)

    • NetLingo: The Internet Language Dictionary

      An online dictionary containing thousands of popular Internet words and definitions that describe the technology and community of the World Wide Web.

      (Added: 18-Jun-2002   /   Hits [2007- ]: 2)

    • OneLook Dictionaries [Meta-Site]

      Searches for words/acronyms over 229 dictionaries and more than 1,600,000 words simultaneously or over specific category dictionaries.

      (Added: 4-Dec-1998   /   Hits [2007- ]: 3)

    • Online Chinese Dictionary

      Provides translations of terms and phrases in Chinese, English, French, German, Italian, Spanish, Portugese or Russia.

      (Added: 10-Oct-2006   /   Hits [2007- ]: 0)

    • Phrase Finder

      A list of the meanings and origins of over a thousand phrases, sayings, quotes and cliches in English.

      (Added: 13-Sep-2002   /   Hits [2007- ]: 0)

    • Roget's Thesauri

      An online version of Roget's II: The New Thesaurus (the 3rd edition).

      (Added: 15-Jul-2002   /   Hits [2007- ]: 1)

    • Symbols.com

      Online version of Carl Liungman's Thought Signs (1995), itself an updated and expanded version of his Dictionary of Symbols. Contains more than 2,500 Western signs, organized into 54 groupings based on graphic characteristics, and has 1,600 brief articles that discuss the history and meaning of the ideograms. Searchable by graphics and words.

      (Added: 15-Jan-1999   /   Hits [2007- ]: 1)

    • Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus

      A searchable Web dictionary with an integrated thesaurus. Its headword list is approximately 50,000. Entries contain definition, pronunciation, synonyms, examples, etc.

      (Added: 13-Mar-1998   /   Hits [2007- ]: 0)

    • WordWeb Online

      A dictionary and word finder with more than 280,000 possible lookup words and phrases. Covers American, British, Australian, Canadian and Asian English spellings and words.

      (Added: 19-Apr-2006   /   Hits [2007- ]: 1)

    • yourDictionary.com [Meta-Site]

      A language portal with more than 1,500 dictionaries representing over 230 languages. Includes language and subject dictionaries, and also an interactive translator of text and Web pages.

      (Added: 4-Dec-1998   /   Hits [2007- ]: 1)


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