Black's Rhyming and Spelling Dictionary - Pie Corbett, Ruth Thomson

The Oxford Dictionary of Rhymes

Advantages: Easy to use, comprehensive
Disadvantages: None

Let's suppose you are a poet or a song writer and you need a rhyme. Rather than beating your brains out for hours on end wasting paper, what you need is a copy of what is probably the world's best English language rhyming dictionary, the Oxford Dictionary of Rhymes. Actually, it is not just a English language rhyming language dictionary, as well as proper names and pace names, it contains foreign teems, too. Unlike some behemoth rhyming dictionaries, this one is of a sensible size. I can imagine a poet in his or her garret, notebook in one hand, pen or pencil between teeth, with the Oxford Dictionary of Rhymes in their other hand. How is the book laid out? Firstly there is a preface which explains what the book is and also why it is. Then there is the introduction by John Lennard. Actually, this is more than a mere introduction. It ...

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dictionary.com

Advantages: Good free service
Disadvantages: Too many adverts & pop-ups

the spelling of text entered." It does provide you with word origins and related words too...in this case, 'dictionaries'!! Be warned you may want your pop-up blocker on when visiting the site, as there's one around every corner. But that aside, it's a handy, free website that you'd be foolish not to use next time you're caught short! ...

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Helpful dictionary

Advantages: Covers most of the theories and terms used in general psychology; easy to use
Disadvantages: Once you want specific areas (eg. educational psychology) there may not be entries

Andrew Colman is a Professor of Psychology at the University of Leicester, and has been heavily involved in psychological research. His dictionary is more than 800 pages long, and according to the back of the book covers 'cognition, sensation and perception, emotion and motivation, learning and skills, language, mental disorder, and research methods'. I used this as a bible throughout my undergraduate degree and never in the three years found a term that was not covered. I have since begun looking into a doctoral in educational psychology and have found that a few (but not many) of the terms I have wanted have not been covered. The definitions I found to be succinct but useful, and several are illustrated with accompanying diagrams which helped to clarify things for me. As a dictionary of psychology as a broad, general subject, this is ...

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