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English Monolingual Dictionaries

http://www.freedict.com

http://www.merriam-webster.com/home.htm

http://encarta.msn.com/encnet/features/dictionary/dictionaryhome.aspx

http://dictionary.reference.com/ (Dictionary.com)

http://www.bartleby.com/61/ (American Heritage Dictionary)

Reference Sites that List More Dictionaries

http://www.proz.com/glosspost

http://www.lexicool.com/

http://www.yourdictionary.com/diction5.html#medicine

http://www.bikinfo.com/HTML/Langlink.html

http://www.angelfire.com/ga2/transcription/translinks.html (medical resources)

http://www.onelook.com/ (OneLook dictionary search)

http://www.uniquecritique.net/DictionariesThesaurus.html (Online Thesauraus and Dictionaries)

Glossaries

See archived copies of the ATA Chronicle for an excellent series of articles containing a very large selection of glossaries on a host of topics: 6/06, 8/06, 9/06. 2/07, 3/07, 6/07, 7/07, and 9/07.

Technology Resources

• CAT tools

http://www.omegat.org/en/omegat.html (open-source)

http://www.trados.be/en/

http://www.wordfast.net/

http://anaphraseus.sourceforge.net/ (open-source, for translation memory)

• Software

http://www.nuance.com/naturallyspeaking/ (Dragon Naturally Speaking)

http://www.nuance.com/pdfconverter/standard/ (PDF Converter)

http://www.efax.com/en/efax/twa/efaxPlus (for faxing)

http://www.practiline.com/features.htm (for text counting and invoicing)

http://www.shaunakelly.com/word/CompleteWordCount/ (for word counts)

http://www.internationalwriters.com/toolkit and www.internationalwriters.com/toolbox (Jost Zetsche’s technology tool biweekly newsletter and computer primer for translators)

http://www.openoffice.org/ (complete, open-source office software suite)

Go to http://baldwinsoftware.com/wiki/pmwiki.php?n=Main.Freetran for more open-source software ideas.

Term Searchs

http://www.proz.com/?sp=ksearch#glosspost (search for specific terms by language)

http://www.wordreference.com/ (search for specific terms by language)

http://www.tausdata.org/index.php/language-search-engine

http://www.btb.termiumplus.gc.ca/tpv2alpha/alpha-fra.html?lang=fra&srchtxt=&i=1&index=ent&page=srch-clky-fra (English, French, Spanish)

http://iate.europa.eu/iatediff/switchLang.do?success=mainPage&lang=en

Miscellaneous

http://www.chicagomanualofstyle.org/home.html (Chicago Manual of Style Online)

http://www.acronymfinder.com/

http://www.hoptechno.com/nightcrew/sante7000/convert.cfm (metric converter)

http://www.hcu.ox.ac.uk/BNC/ (British National Corpus, a 100-million word collection of samples or written and spoken language from a wide range of sources)