Reference tools
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Wikipedia


Encyclopedia of human knowledge written collaboratively by contributors around the world
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Scribd


Search for documents, books, presentations, and business, academic papers archived on Scribd's social publishing site, where tens of millions of people share original writings and documents.
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Wolfram|Alpha


Enter a question or calculation and Wolfram|Alpha uses its built-in algorithms and data to get the answer. A huge set of information and tons of models, methods, and algorithms that make it possible to compute whatever can be computed about anything
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Urban Dictionary


Internet dictionary of slang words and phrases. More than 5 million street lingo words and expressions have been defined by the Internet community. The definitions on Urban Dictionary are meant to be those of slang or subculture words, phrases, and phenomena not found in standard dictionaries and tend to have the newest words. Entries are checked by volunteer editors and rated by site visitor…
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Google Maps


Street and satellite maps of our earth. View maps, locate an address or intersection, get walking or driving directions and find businesses in an area.
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Google Translate Text


Google's free online language translation service instantly translates text to other languages. This translator supports: English, Arabic, Bulgarian, Chinese, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hindi, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Spanish, Swedish
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OneLook Multi-Dictionary Search


Look in hundreds of general and specialized dictionaries at once. Great for obscure words or when you want to compare different dictionaries
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MapQuest Maps


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MapQuest Lat/Long Coordinates (deg)


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Google Scholar


Search scholarly literature across many disciplines and sources – peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, abstracts and articles, from academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories, universities and other scholarly organizations. Google Scholar helps you identify the most relevant published research in academia.
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Cambridge Dictionary of American English


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Encyclopædia Britannica


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Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary


Look up your word in this authoritative Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, with more than 215,000 definitions with pronunciations
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Merriam-Webster Collegiate Thesaurus


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FreeTranslation Web Page Translator


Translate a web page from English into Spanish, French, German, Portuguese, Italian and Norwegian or the other way around
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FreeTranslation Text Translator


Translate text from English into Spanish, French, German, Italian, Dutch, Portuguese, Russian, Norwegian, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Japanese or the other way around
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Ask Jeeves


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Synonyms


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Homophones


Find words and phrases that are pronounced exactly the same as another word or phrase
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Rhymes


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ZabaSearch USA Person Search


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About Topic Guides


Search through the About directory of over 50,000 specialized topics, each one managed by an expert on the subject
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Google Usenet Newsgroups


Search the Usenet discussion forums. Find something written an hour ago or over 20 years ago. Over 700 million newsgroup messages are available
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Thesaurus.com


Quickly find synonyms, antonyms, and related words with Thesaurus.com. Find words that mean the same (synonyms) in synonym dictionary and mean the opposite (antonym) in the antonym dictionary, with this free online thesaurus
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Google Finance


Get world financial markets' money news, charts, stock quotes, investment research, trends, currency exchange rates and bond yields
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Oanda Currency Converter


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Yahoo Maps


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FOLDOC Computing Dictionary


Get definitions for computer-related terminology from the Free On-Line Dictionary Of Computing
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Yahoo Directory


Use the Yahoo web directory when you want to find sites specializing in a given topic or you are looking for a specific Web site home page
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Dictionary.com lookup


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YellowPages.com


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Law.com Legal Dictionary


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Columbia Encyclopedia


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Bartleby Quotations


Bartleby combines the best of both contemporary and classic quotations collections (over 86,000 entries), the largest of its kind ever compiled.
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Voycabulary Web Page ReferenceLinker


VoyCabulary makes the words on any webpage into links so you can look them up in a dictionary or other word reference tool by clicking on the words.
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FindHow


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CMU Pronouncing Dictionary


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whatis.com IT Encyclopedia


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Wiktionary


Free lexical database of the English language, complete with meanings, etymologies, and pronunciations.
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Google Translate Web


Google's free online language translation service instantly translates web pages to other languages. This translator supports: English, Arabic, Bulgarian, Chinese, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hindi, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Spanish, Swedish