Swallowed a Dictionary

The above, even considering there are two entries on encyclopedias and one on wikis, is not exhaustive; it didn't take me long to realise that I had not included the Dictionary of Irish Architects despite intending to do so nor to give up quickly after commencing a country-by-country check of foreign online encyclopedias. Or concede that my decision to exclude Veropedia was idiosyncratic but, to be fair, mirroring Wikipedia is something other sites do regularly and I can't see the point unless you are going to do a Touched by the Son and use this to make new discoveries.

Should we look at the definition of dictionary or are we content to say we think we know the difference to encyclopedias? As with wikis there is considerable crossover. Probably you won't get far if you look up 'steel-wheeled tractor' in an online dictionary, it might be better to find out, using a search engine, what some of these tractors were and then use a dictionary though, chances are, you will have the information by then. And were they perhaps 'iron-wheeled'?

Online Dictionaries

• Academy Dictionary of Lithuanian
• Almaany
• American Heritage Dictionary
• Cambridge Dictionaries Online
• Collins Online Dictionary
• Dictionary.com
• Dictionary of the Scots Language
• Ectaco
• e-mahashabdkosh
• Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
• LEO 
• Lexilogos
• Linguee 
• Logos Dictionary
• Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
• Macmillan English Dictionary for Advanced Learners 
• Madura English-Sinhala Dictionary
• Merriam-Webster Online
• Multitran 
• Online Etymology Dictionary
• Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary
• Oxford Dictionaries Online
• Plattmakers
• Pseudodictionary 
• Svenska Akademiens ordbok
• Ultralingua
• Urban Dictionary
• Van Dale
• Webster's Online Dictionary: The Rosetta Edition
• Wiktionary
• William Whitaker's Words
• Woordenboek der Nederlandsche Taal
• WordNet
• Wordnik
• Wordweb
• WWWJDIC
• Yeminlisozluk