Dictionaries and glossaries
The City uses both general and specialized terms related to its services. Below are a few general and specialized dictionaries and glossaries. If you'd like to share a reference that your business unit finds useful, please e-mail BrandLink.
Dictionary and glossary options
- Bartleby:
- Bartlett's Quotations
Respectfully quoted, Harvard classics, Oxford Shakespeare - Strunk's Elements of Style
Online book of grammar rules, composition and writing styles
- Bartlett's Quotations
- City Acronyms
- City IT:
- Geographic Information System (GIS) glossaries
- LiveLink terms
- Policies and procedures terms
- Internet Public Library
Sources for quotation searches and other reference materials - ITIL (Information Technology Infrastructure Library)
- Lynch's Guide to Grammar and Style
Miscellany of grammatical rules and explanations, comments on style and suggestions on usage - Medical Dictionary
Dictionary service of the US National Institute of Health - Merriam-Webster
Dictionary and links to thesaurus - Oxford English Dictionary
- Roget's Thesaurus
Search tool - University of Chicago - Webopedia
General technology glossary - WhatIs.com
General technology glossary - Wordsmyth
American English educational dictionary-thesaurus with exact, broad or spelled-like search capacity
