Discovery After Using Online Dictionaries

When I was in elementary school, I got my first Chinese-English dictionary book.
This dictionary was fine, but sometimes I couldn’t find the word I wanted.

Then, in senior high, I bought my first electric dictionary.
It was nice because of its abundant vocabularies and categories.
However, examples were not enough to me.

Now, I use YahooKimo to check the words I don’t know.

Microsoft Office Word can also help me to correct my spelling and help me to translate some sentences.

There are various online dictionaries for everyone to use today.

Onelook is my favorite one, because it is helpful when I want to know the meanings of that word in different categories.

It lists out those categories. It’s convenient to me.

Oxford and Cambridge are good as well, because they have many examples and meanings.

They are all good tools and I put the links on my blog.Hope everyone can make good use of them.


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I use dictionary.com, trying to find out two similar words I used to be confused.

「draw」and「paint」

Draw and paint, they both have a lot of meanings.
What I want to know is when they both use as verbs, is the meaning in Chinese “畫” has any differences?

Here is I got:

Draw means: to compose or create (a picture) in lines.
Paint means: to produce (a picture, design, etc.) in paint.

Their meanings are a little bit different as what I knew at first.

Draw sounds like we use pencil to sketch lines for paint at the beginning.
Paint sounds more likely as using colors to create and then finish paint.

I think I am satisfied with these answers because they at least give me a line to differentiate between draw and paint.