Specialty Dictionaries
Learn the latest slang and explore the specialized vocabularies of cooking, music, movie making and online communications with quick and convenient access to an assortment of informative and entertaining specialty dictionaries.
You can get a witty look at our ever-changing language and pick up some new slang with a connection to the Urban Dictionary. The popular website features user-submitted words and definitions for street lingo or subculture words and phrases not found in standard dictionaries. You can can submit a new word or a new definition for a word already in the dictionary, vote on the best entries and choose the word of the day.
Also, if you don't know the difference between saute and sate or miso and misto you can feed your hunger for knowledge about food and cooking with instant access to the Epicurious food dictionary. The food dictionary contains definitions for more than 4,000 culinary terms, including types of foods, wines and cocktails, cooking tools and techniques and more. All the information in the dictionary comes from Sharon Tyler Herbst's popular Food Lover's Companion, a comprehensive guide to food, wine, and culinary terms.
Plus, whether you're a performer, student, concert-goer or CD collector, you can get in tune with the world of music with a link to the Dolmetsch Music Dictionary. Part of Dolmetsch.com, the website of the Dolmetsch family, recognized worldwide for their pioneering work in the field of early music, the Music Dictionary features an extensive variety of musical terms and phrases, including form and theory, composers, instruments, technology, historical eras and more. You'll find definitions, translations, comments and explanations for each term or phrase, and many entries also include links to supplemental materials and related websites.
In addition, you can get a clearer focus on the vocabulary of movie making and cinema techniques with access to Filmsite.org's Film Terms Dictionary. You'll discover a collection of terms and phrases covering numerous areas of film-making including film theories, movie genres, slang, lingo and buzzwords, film equipment, technology, acting and more. Many of the entries also feature illustrations and examples from movies to help describe them more fully.
Do all the abbreviations and acronyms used in online communications seem like a foreign language to you? Well OMG, that just has us ROFL! Oh, we're J/K. But, don't worry; we can help you crack the "secret code" with a connection to ChatRef.com. This handy resources contains definitions for thousands of acronyms, abbreviations and emoticons that are used in online chat, instant messaging, e-mail, texting, forums, Facebook, MySpace, Twitter and online gaming. ChatRef.com also features a list of characters and character groups used in leetspeak, the symbolic online jargon originally used by hackers and gamers, and a checklist of acronyms, abbreviations and other online chat slang that parents should know.
So now you can find the definition for any term or phrase from the worlds of cooking, music, film making and more with a convenient connection to a collection of interesting and entertaining specialty dictionaries.