Internetsite of theWeek
- Published: 24/02/2010 at 10:38 AM
- Online news: Tech Scoop
My friend Marty Salin sent in this week's Internet Site of the Week. He says, ``Onelook.com offers a dictionary search better than Google's. As a writer, I often have to look words up. For years, Onelook.com has been my go-to tool. Whenever I need to look up a word, I use Onelook to directly search dozens of dictionaries, both plain English and specialised. The results page links directly to the entry I looked up in each dictionary, and getting multiple definitions is just a matter of Ctrl-clicking each of my favourite dictionaries to open them up in new tabs.
``The service searches established dictionaries such as Merriam Webster, Encarta and American Heritage, as well as much more obscure sources such as The White House's Drug Policy Street Term glossary. Each resource is categorised, so if you're looking for the drug-related definition for `finger' you can immediately skip down to the Slang section in the results.
``Another useful feature is the `reverse dictionary lookup' which lets you look up a word by its meaning. It's a very no-frills website, but it gets the job done better than Google's `Define' search each and every time.''
I should add that, according to the site, it has 14,952,061 words in 1,047 dictionaries indexed.
When you look up a word, it also gives definitions by category as well as displays expressions that word is used in. You can even listen to the word being pronounced (in an American accent) and look up the word's origins, which I love to do.
As Marty said, not such a flashy site, but certainly very useful for wordsmiths.
About the author
- Writer: Gotfried. K
- Position: Writer
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