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<DIV><FONT face="Times New Roman">Dear list members,</FONT></DIV>
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face="Times New Roman" size=3>Some days ago I posted a query about English
dictionary. Thank you very much for the answers. There is the summary
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<DIV><FONT face="Times New Roman">Zhang yuqi</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face="Times New Roman">The summary is :</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Times New Roman">1 </FONT><FONT
face="Times New Roman"> You might try yourdictionary.com which
includes lots of links to dictionaries of
many languages. <BR>
Josephine Lo</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Times New Roman">2 WordNet (<A
href="http://www.cogsci.princeton.edu/~wn/)">http://www.cogsci.princeton.edu/~wn/)</A>
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Rada Mihalcea and MAltesh Badiger</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Times New Roman">3 You could try CUV2
which is a 'computer-usable' version of the Oxford Advanced Learners' Dictionary
and available for free download from the Oxford Text Archive<BR><A
href="http://www.ota.ahds.ac.uk/">http://www.ota.ahds.ac.uk/</A><FONT face=ËÎÌå
size=2> </FONT>It contains 70,000+ entries (in text format) including
inflected forms etc. and provides a fairly comprehensive coverage. There's also
a Prolog-readable version on my web site at<BR><A
href="http://www.dcs.kcl.ac.uk/pg/purver/software.html">http://www.dcs.kcl.ac.uk/pg/purver/software.html</A></FONT></DIV>
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Jenny and Matthew Purver </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Times New Roman">4 Cambridge can provide the
Cambridge International Dictionary of English or <BR>the English Pronouncing
Dictionary, but these only cover the most frequent <BR>50,000-80,000 words, not
all English words. See <BR><A
href="http://uk.cambridge.org/elt/reference/data.htm">http://uk.cambridge.org/elt/reference/data.htm</A>
for some more information.<BR>
Andrew
Harley</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face="Times New Roman">5 Try the following URL:
<FONT color=#000000><A
href="http://www.m-w.com/">http://www.m-w.com/</A></FONT><FONT
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color=#000000> Susana
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