The Free Dictionary

The Free Dictionary

http://www.thefreedictionary.com/


The Free Dictionary allow you to search in 5 ways:

* Word / Article * Starts with * Ends with *Text

It is designed to be a customized home page, with optional word-related content that can be dragged, dropped or removed.

You can View Archive or Set it as Home Page.

You can simply move the modules around, and then click "Save this page" amd Save / Send the Page for yourself or to any one.

Content modules include Word of the Day, customized Word List, Spelling Bee game, synonym match-up game, Quotation of the Day, Hangman and This Day in History etc...

Dictionary.com

Dictionary.com

http://dictionary.reference.com/

Dictionary.com is a multi-source dictionary search service produced by Lexico Publishing Group, LLC, a leading provider of language reference products and services on the Internet.

To use the dictionary, simply type a word in the blue search box that appears at the top of every page and then click the 'Search' button.

This will perform a search for the word in the several dictionaries hosted on the site. If you don't know how to spell the word, just guess. You will get a list of suggestions if you are wrong.

Note that Dictionary.com does not produce all the dictionaries that appear on their Web site; but simply make them available.

In that respect Dictionary.com is more like a bookstore or library than a publisher. The source of each entry is given immediately after the entry in question; follow the source link for information about the dictionary, including publisher contact information.

Dictionary.com includes biblical names, chemical elements, computer terms, international statistics, and zip codes as well as the correct spelling and definition of English words -- all in one search function.

The home page have the following sections:


Fun and Games

Daily Puzzle

Crossword Solver


Featured

Premium Membership

Word Explorer Podcasts
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Language Resources

Word FAQs

Grammar & Style


Translations

Text Translator

Multilingual Dictionary


Tools and Resources

CleverKeys

Plug-in for Firefox

Toolbar for Internet Explorer
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Word of the day

Sudoku Puzzle

Sudoku Puzzle @ Yahoo! Video

Download a simple Sudoku Puzzle worksheet from:

http://nichectr.com/free-origami/simple-sudoku-puzzle.doc

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A nice collection of links to online applications that manage bookmarks, web pages and photos:

Jeremy Wagstaff's

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http://loosewire.typepad.com/blog/2005/01/a_directory_of__1.html