"There are a number of good dictionaries on the Internet. However, a person sometimes needs to look at several before finding the word they seek and the definitions in that dictionary may not give them quite what they need so they go on to look for the word in other dictionaries as well. This page is intended to make the above process quick and painless. The purpose is to encourage people to use Internet glossaries and dictionaries. The OneLook Dictionaries page provides two approaches to finding definitions for a word.

• 1.Search the OneLook Dictionary indexes for the word you seek. You may search all or a few of the dictionaries and then quickly retrieve the definitions found. An asterisk character in a search string is a wildcard that matches any number (including zero) of any characters. If an exact match is not found, then a partial match may be found (the presence of an asterisk blocks this feature). If no match is found in the dictionaries selected, then the other dictionaries are searched.
  
• 2.Link directly to a dictionary page. The "Browse Dictionaries" list includes dictionaries that are indexed by OneLook Dictionaries. It is always possible, that the dictionary page will include words that are not yet included in the OneLook Dictionaries search database. The "More Dictionaries" list contains dictionary links that for technical reasons are not indexed or the author has not given permission."

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