October 16, 1758

It’s back-to-school season, and a return to my favorite homework mantra: Look it up! Online dictionaries are fast and easy to use while surfing the Web, because you can cut and paste the words you want to look up. Although I still prefer the printed kind for off-line look ups, these sites are also handy when my hardback dictionary is buried under so many papers I can’t find it!

All Words
All Words is an English dictionary with multilingual search which means you can search and display words in either English, German, Dutch, French, Italian or Spanish. For example enter “play” and select search language English and display language Spanish/English. You will be rewarded with six English definitions and the corresponding Spanish equivalents including: to spend time in recreation (jugar), to perform a role in a play (actuar), and a dramatic piece for the stage (obra de teatro).

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