8. ONLINE REFERENCE TOOLS Dictionaries and Thesauruses Concordancers and corpuses for language analysis Translators for language analysis Encyclopedias.

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8. ONLINE REFERENCE TOOLS Dictionaries and Thesauruses Concordancers and corpuses for language analysis Translators for language analysis Encyclopedias for research and project work

Dictionaries and thesauruses A monolingual dictionary uses the same language for the words and their definitions.dictionarywords A thesaurus is a book that organizes words by categories and concepts, so synonyms and near-synonyms will be grouped together.wordssynonyms

Dictionaries TYPES OF DICTIONARY: Click on the links below to find out more about the different kinds of dictionaries available: Bilingual Dictionary Monolingual Dictionary Etymological Dictionary Crossword Dictionary Rhyming Dictionary Mini-Dictionary Pocket Dictionary Thesaurus Glossary

Thesauruses Thesauruses are more suited to intermediate and advanced level.

Concordancers and corpuses for language analysis A concordancer is similar to a search engine in many respects. Essentially, it is a small program that can examined large quantities of text for patterns and occurences of particular words and phrases.