Author: Naisarasri Sri
Today's technology is contributing a lot in child's
education and learning. Talking about the Internet in this
concern, it provides an advanced way of learning and
teaching to both teachers and students. Via online students
can gather extensive information on any subject that can
help them in completing their assignments. Here availing
benefits of online dictionary is not left behind. As
compared to printed dictionary, searching words on
dictionary online is quick. Just type in the word in the
search box and get the meanings of words within seconds. If
you are not clear with spellings of complex words, online
dictionary is of very much use in such cases.
Dictionary online provides complete search regarding
definitions, pronunciation, spelling, thesaurus entries and
etymology results for any word. The online dictionary can
be browsed alphabetically or by the terms related to the
word to find the exact meanings and synonyms of the word.
There are online dictionaries in different languages like
French, Italian, Spanish and German.
There are also online dictionaries covering varied
subjects, such as computer, science, and medical,
pharmaceutical and also industry specific terms. The
information available on online dictionary is gathered from
various sources like Wikipedia, encyclopedias, the acronym
finder databases, and financial and legal dictionaries. The
online thesaurus is also available that has a list of words
with similar meanings.
One of the biggest advantages of dictionary online is that
it is free to access so your money is saved that otherwise
gets wasted in buying printed version of dictionary.
Moreover, people can also compile their own personal
dictionary by selecting some every day words from online
dictionary. The option of audio helps you to listen and
learn the pronunciation of any difficult word which you are
not able to spell out properly.
Special-purpose dictionaries
There are online multi-field dictionaries that cover
different semantic fields whereas a single-field online
dictionary covers only one subject field. There are also
online sub-field dictionaries that further cover a singular
field of a subject.
There are also different types of online special-purpose
dictionaries that include multilingual, bilingual,
scientific, biographical, technical, historical and
geographical dictionaries. Learner's dictionaries assist
the people in learning a language whereas bi-lingual online
dictionaries help in translating languages.
If you are struggling with finding meanings of technical
terminology then one can access technical dictionary that
especially covers technical related subjects. The technical
online dictionary proves beneficial for medical and
computer dictionaries.
The visual online dictionary is an interactive dictionary
with pictures offering an innovative approach for learning
the meanings of words. It is an all-in-one reference book
in which we can quickly locate the picture of a word. It
provides an easy and accessible way of learning words. So,
the visual dictionary is ideal for teachers, students,
parents and translators. Now-a-days, dictionary software is
also available in PDAs format that can be easily downloaded
on computers. Not only on computers, the dictionary
software can also be downloaded on mobiles too thus can be
accessed anywhere at any point of an hour.
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If you want to find out more information about online
dictionary, please visit :
http://www.dicdd.com
http://www.whitemedia.org/
