Online Dictionaries & Thesaurus
Most of the time, Google may be the only dictionary or thesaurus you'll ever need. Sometimes, though, you'll want to use an actual online dictionary or thesaurus to find the perfect answer to your question. Here are some resources.
Dictionary.com is one of the leading online dictionary services, along with its sister site, Thesaurus.com. If you want definitions, synonyms and pronunciation help, these sites are the places to go. Dictionary.com also has a good app for smart phones, although it does use a lot of memory. There is also a Word-a-Day function on the app.
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OneLook.com is a dictionary aggregator. That means it accesses the information from many online dictionaries when you search for a word. Although I use Dictionary.com on my iPhone, I always use OneLook.com when I am at my office computer. With OneLook.com, you don't have to choose a dictionary, you can look up a word on all of them simultaneously.
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AlphaDictionary.com is a dictionary aggregator of specialty dictionaries. If you need medical, legal, military, science, literary, linguistic or other specialty terms, you might find what you're looking for here. There are also slang dictionaries available at this site.
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Japanese - English Dictionaries
Google can translate a single word for you easily enough, but these two Japanese - English dictionaries are great for checking to make sure you have the exact translation you need. Alc.co.jp and Weblio.jp provide many examples from the Internet of the word in actual use along with words that often appear together with the word. When you need collocations, these are the sites to use.
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