Webster’s Online Dictionary

There are quite a number of free online dictionaries, some more useful than others. Webster’s Online Dictionary with Multilingual Thesaurus Translation is my favorite. It’s a wonderful resource for more than just definitions. In addition to helping users find the correct spelling for words, the dictionary contains images, quotes, modern usages, commercial usages, historical usages, anagrams, and more.

For example, I looked up the word “fish” and found an abundance of images and information about the word. Here’s a quotation by Lao Tzu. “Ruling a big country is like cooking a small fish.”

While I still like my print dictionary when not on the computer this is the reference tool I use when online.

Language Translation

Do you need to translate text on a webpage from one language to another? Check out Yahoo!’s Babel Fish.

The tool translates English to eleven other languages and offers translation options between the various languages.

Use Babel Fish to:

• compare a translated web page side by side with the original page.
• translate a few words and “launch a search using the translation results as your query.”

While it’s a good tool for general language translations don’t depend on it for grammatically correct translations. Instead seek out someone who can read and comprehend both languages.