What is the Dictionary and reference board?
The ProZ.com Dictionary and Reference Board is a searchable database of dictionaries and other works of reference which may be of use to language professionals. Records can be created on works of reference, and feedback provided by members of the community.
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Collins COBUILD Advanced Dictionary of American English (Interactive CDROM)
Level: high-intermediate to advanced
A valuable enhancement to the learning experience, the Collins COBUILD Advanced Dictionary Interactive CD ROM offers learners a fast and simple way to explore words and their meanings while working on a computer. SEARCH with definitions, sample sentences and more. “PopUp” Dictionary, Audio pronunciation [...]
Packed with everyday examples from spoken and written English, the new “Collins COBUILD Advanced Dictionary” makes words easy to find, easy to understand, and easy to use for students at this level. Promote learning through definitions plus: full-sentence definitions use the most common context in which target words are most typically found in real life; [...]
If you are a professional translator or work with languages in another capacity, then you might as well use dictionaries almost every day. Dictionaries are not only reference aids but also tools of work in the linguists’ hands.
With the rise of computers and the Internet, the hard-copy reference materials are gradually being replaced by electronic [...]
The process of converging the two different approaches of classifying linguistic knowledge - namely, lemma-based vs. concept-based - is going to bear fruit soon.
The project of TRADOS & Langenscheidt to implement Langenscheidt technical dictionaries in its translation memory system as MultiTerm termbases will soon come to the market.
The problem is that translators, in their [...]
ProZ, one of the largest translators’ community, launched its new initiative: Wikiwords (still in beta version).
Wikiwords is a collaborative project to create a dictionary of all terms in all languages with definitions and example sentences.
The Wikiwords schema is built around concepts. For example, a dog is a concept. It can be conveyed in the English [...]
Below you’ll find a sample of the nearly 100 new words and senses that have been added to the best-selling Eleventh Edition of Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate® Dictionary.
New Entries============
amuse-bouche (noun) 1984 : a small complimentary appetizer offered at some restaurants
battle dress uniform (noun) 1982 : a military uniform for field service
bikini wax (noun) 1985 : [...]
LingvoSoft has just released the Dictionary 2006 series of translating dictionaries for Pocket PC. These essential language solutions are remarkable tools that will help you out in business, study or travel situations. And the talking versions even speak the words from their massive databases aloud, using the latest bilingual Text-to-Speech technology.
For more information, please [...]
ABBYY Lingvo е най-пълния и съвременен електронен речник. Той дава възможност да получите точен превод на всяка дума. В неговите 46 английско-руски речника са събрани около 2,3 милиона речникови статии. Над 80% от речниците са издадени в периода 2003-2005 г. Речниковите статии съдържат транскрипция, тълкование, синоними и антоними, граматични коментари. Дадени са и примери на [...]
CAPL — the Culturally Authentic Pictorial Lexicon — provides a free bidirectional pictorial lexicon for German-English. This pilot project seeks to explore the cultural/visual differences and similarities in objects and words between languages. All images are taken in the target country and are not staged or manipulated to suit. For German, the linguistic, visual differences [...]
