Тезаурусы
Thesaurus.com http://thesaurus.reference.com/
Wordsmyth Dictionary-Thesaurus http://www.wordsmyth.net/
Lexical FreeNet – Connected Thesaurus http://www.lexfn.com/
Mawson’s 1922 Roget’s Thesaurus of English Words and phrases http://www.bartleby.com/110/
Roget’s II The New Thesaurus, Third edition. 1995 http://www.bartleby.com/62/
WordNet Princeton University Cognitive Science Laboratory a large lexical database of English with words grouped into sets of cognitive synonyms (synsets) http://wordnet.princeton.edu/
Phrase Thesaurus –ideas generator for writers http://www.phrasefinder.co.uk/index.html The Phrase Finder – phrases, sayings and idioms http://www.phrases.org.uk/
WordWeb Online dictionary-thesaurus http://www.wordwebonline.com/
Itanda English Thesaurus – Instant lists of words with similar meanings Based on the Moby English Thesaurus with ~30000 categories and ~2.5M index entries. http://www.itanda.com/thesaurus.php
Visual Thesaurus an interactive dictionary and thesaurus which creates word maps that blossom with meanings and branch to related words. Its innovative display encourages exploration and learning in a powerful new way http://www.visualthesaurus.com/
The Getty – Art and Architecture Thesaurus http://www.getty.edu/research/conducting_research/vocabularies/aat/
Thesaurusizer
– Written Humour
Translating
your normal sentences into smarter sounding jargon
[I
plan to go to the cinema this weekend. I
artful dodge to go to the movies individual
weekend.]
http://writtenhumor.com/smarter.html
Энциклопедии
Encyclopedia Britannica – School & Library Site http://www.eb.com/ http://www.britannica.com
Wikipedia – The Free Encyclopedia The free-content encyclopedia that anyone can edit. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
The
Citizendium Project Beta
“Citizen’s Compendium of Everything”
an
encyclopedia project, a different
sort of Web Wiki aiming at credibility and quality, not just
quantity; both the general public and credentialed experts are
involved
http://www.citizendium.com/The Literary Encyclopedia an expanding global literary reference work written by over 1600 specialists from universities around the world, and currently provides over 4200 authoritative profiles of authors, works and literary and historical topics http://www.litencyc.com/
General Reference – AllRefer.com Provides a free encyclopedia (Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia, from the Columbia University Press) & gazetteer, medical encyclopedia & other valuable reference resources. Thousands of articles available here in HTML, with useful links to related topics. http://www.allrefer.com
Answers.com – Online Dictionary, Encyclopedia and much more http://www.answers.com/
MSN Encarta – Online Encyclopedia, Dictionary, Atlas and Study Centre http://uk.encarta.msn.com//
Encyclopedia of Television – Includes more than 1,000 essays examining programmes, people, historic moments and trends, disputes, scandals and much else in the saga of the small screen. Also contains histories of major TV networks and broadcasting systems around the world, plus resource materials, photos and bibliographical information. http://www.museum.tv/archives/etv/index.html