The signs range from ideograms carved in mammoth teeth by Cro-Magnon men, to hobo signs and subway graffiti. Use the Graphic Index to search for the meaning or history of a sign. If you want to see an ideogram with a certain meaning, use the Word Index. You may search for both meanings and names of signs. This weekly web-zine provides origins to words and phrases.
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Translations are available to and from English to Spanish, German, French, Japanese, Dutch, Swedish, Portuguese, Russian, Hungarian, and Welsh. Preference in selection has been given to free online dictionaries of high quality, useful to specialists and translators. However, downloadable and subscription material are listed if exceptionally rare, unusually well-executed. Comprehensive, covering dozens of languages. English nouns, verbs, adjectives and adverbs are organized into synonym sets, each representing one underlying lexical concept.