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Merriam-Webster Thesaurus - if you're not sure of the spelling, use ? to replace one unknown letter, or * for none/one/more letters:

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Merriam-Webster Dictionary - if you're not sure of the spelling, use ? to replace one unknown letter, or * for none/one/more letters:

Bartlett's Quotations - enter all the key words of which you're certain, separated by semicolons [borrower;lender]:

"Honi soit qui mal y pense." (Evil to him who evil thinks.)
-Motto of the Order of the Garter (1349) by Edward III (1312-1377).
"Honi soit qui Malibu." (Don't bring me down, man.)
-Motto of the surfer, dude. [Aphorisms]

AltaVista (Systran) Translator - sure, you can translate this web page (or others), and even passages of your own prose... simply type/paste the text (or URL, beginning with http://) here:

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LOGOS Universal Translator - enter a word in English, French, Italian, Spanish, Portugese, German, Dutch, Danish, Swedish, Polish, Greek, Turkish, Russian, Czech, Slovenian, Latvian, Romanian, Serbian, Croatian, Chinese, Japanese, Latin, etc.:

Wordtheque context search facility - matches will be highlighted in windows that can be expanded up and/or down. Clicking the resulting title will go to the source web pages (novels, technical literature, texts, etc.); click the hyperlinked word or phrase to run a dictionary search. Enter your query word or phrase:

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CMU Pronouncing Dictionary - enter word or sentence to be pronounced:

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Acronyms & Abbreviations - to look up the meaning of an acronym or abbreviation, just enter it in the box below (no punctuation); case is not important:

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The Movie Cliche List - peruse the subjects that Giancarlo Cairella has collected, or submit a new cliché:

Airplanes, Alcohol, Aliens, Animals, Answering Machines, Asteroids, Bars/Drinking, Binoculars & Glasses, Biology & Genetics, Bodily Functions, Bombs, Cabs, Cars & Driving, Chases, Chess, Clothing, Computers & Electronics, Conversations, Crime, Death, Dining, Elevators, Environment, Evidence, Fencing/Swordplay, Fights, Food & Eating, Helicopters, Heroes, Houses, Independence Day, Injuries, Kids/Teenagers, Knives, Language, Light, Locks, Medical, Men, Middle Ages, Minorities, Money, Monsters, Motorcycles, Music, Nightmares, Phones, Police, Pregnancy & Childbirth, Prison, Product Placement, Radio, TV & Video, Restrooms, Ropes, School, Sex, Shopping, Signals, Skydiving, Smoking, Space & Vacuum, Spaceships, Sports, Stairs, Suspense, Teenagers, Time, Traffic, Travel, Trees, Villains, War, Weapons, Women, Wood.

Internet Movie Database Credit (etc.) Search - enter person's name or film/program title:

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AnagramFun.com - an anagram is a word or phrase made by scrambling the letters in another word or phrase. Enter your word, phrase, or collection of letters:

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PhoNETic - finds words within telephone numbers, or converts phonetic numbers into digits. Enter seven numbers and/or letters only (no hyphens, spaces, or punctuation):

names (band, ce ns us), num ber, comedy, haiku, link -info, strategy.

Divination (I Ching, Tarot, Runes, Biorhythm, Numerology, Astrology, Palmistry) and Conversion (Time Zones, Currency, Measurement, Latitude/Longitude, Weather, Language, Graphics, etc.).