What's the best online dictionary?

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hm?

― jed_ (jed), Friday, 20 August 2004 00:25 (twenty-one years ago)

OED, but you have to pay.

I find dictionary.com fine. If I need to check British English spellings then I use http://dictionary.cambridge.org. It's very basic - has a good idioms dictionary though.

― Alba (Alba), Friday, 20 August 2004 00:28 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah, dictionary.com for American and dictionary.cambridge.org for actual English.

― Sexual Air Supply (Autumn Almanac), Friday, 20 August 2004 00:30 (twenty-one years ago)

dictionary.com was the one that got me into the "spelt" confusion.

― jed_ (jed), Friday, 20 August 2004 00:39 (twenty-one years ago)

I like using http://www.dict.org - it's hella fast. Otherwise I use Sherlock as the front end to dictionary.com

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Friday, 20 August 2004 00:47 (twenty-one years ago)

Dictionary.com meets my needs when I want a proper definition of the word in question. Otherwise, I just use Google. Type 'define ' into Google, and Bingo.

Using Sherlock for anything except film trailers is just perverse. Seriously, that app is putrid.

― retort pouch (retort pouch), Friday, 20 August 2004 00:53 (twenty-one years ago)

Well, fuck. half of my last post got stripped out, I guess 'cos I used greater than/less than characters.

Let's try this again. To use Google to get word definitions.... type:

'define *word*' into Google

where *word* is the word you're looking for a definition of.

― retort pouch (retort pouch), Friday, 20 August 2004 00:57 (twenty-one years ago)

I recommend onelook.com - it searches loads of other dictionaries, including several of the major ones and a bunch of specialist ones (philosophy, science, medicine, etc.) which is extra-useful for most of the words I look for.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Friday, 20 August 2004 11:51 (twenty-one years ago)

the onelook dictionary is good cos it searches all of them.

― ken c (ken c), Friday, 20 August 2004 11:52 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.onelook.com

― ken c (ken c), Friday, 20 August 2004 11:53 (twenty-one years ago)

I like http://www.bartelby.com - though it's increasingly infested with popups.

― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Friday, 20 August 2004 11:55 (twenty-one years ago)

I tend to use Merriam-Webster as it's the first one I ever found and bookmarked. I like the fact that it has a thesaurus as well.

― MarkH (MarkH), Friday, 20 August 2004 11:58 (twenty-one years ago)

I like http://www.bartelby.com - though it's increasingly infested with popups

markelby once went to a bar......

― ken c (ken c), Friday, 20 August 2004 12:01 (twenty-one years ago)

V gd medical dictionary from Uni of Newcastle: http://cancerweb.ncl.ac.uk/omd/

― Liz :x (Liz :x), Friday, 20 August 2004 12:04 (twenty-one years ago)

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