LEO (website)

Link Everything Online ( abbreviated LEO ) is a website that offers various foreign language dictionaries as well as a software archive. It is operated by the private company LEO GmbH.

  • 2.1 dictionaries 2.1.1 English- German
  • 2.1.2 French - German
  • 2.1.3 Spanish - German
  • 2.1.4 Italian- German
  • 2.1.5 Chinese- German
  • 2.1.6 Russian - German
  • 2.1.7 Portuguese- German
  • 2.1.8 Polish- German
  • 2.2.1 Links to informative and entertaining offers
  • 2.2.2 Links to Munich and its surroundings

History

LEO was created as a composite of FTP software and data archives, which had been built in 1992, even before the existence of the WWW technologies HTTP and HTML at the Technical University of Munich and the University of Munich from interested students. At that time the goal was to build by the aggregation of several existing at individual departments FTP archives a large archive that is organized thematically and maintained its individual areas of archivists and be kept up to date. With the proliferation of the World Wide Web was first offered a HTTP access to the archives as an alternative to FTP access. In addition, students developed different services, of which the dictionary is the most outstanding part today in their spare time. The same operation was transferred to a private company on April 1, 2006, but the use is to remain free.

Up to the commercialization of the Internet Movie Database LEO operation next to the dictionary also the German IMDb Mirror.

Name

Link Everything Online is the later invented "meaning" ( " backronym " ) of the name of the Internet server of the Faculty of computer science at the Technical University of Munich, which was according to the Bavarian heraldic animal "Leo", ie lion, named. The services were initially offered under the name of ISAR (Information systems and archive Munich, obviously also a backronym ). However, this led to confusion with an eponymous company, which required a rename.

Offers

Dictionaries

All dictionaries provide translation facilities in both directions (as the figures: June 2012). The dictionaries are extended by the LEO employees in part by greater " word donations " from individuals or firms, in part due to discussions in the associated LEO forums and corrected. In addition to pure translation become part of the vocabulary in each case also further information and audio files that include the pronunciation of the word, offered. The additional information includes, in English as a definition by Merriam- Webster, in Spanish by the Real Academia Española, the French tables for flexion, the tenses and modes of verbs are offered.

English- German

LEO since 1996 includes an English-German online dictionary with approximately 790,000 entries.

French - German

Since 2004, a Franco- German online dictionary with approximately 240,000 entries.

Spanish - German

Since 1 April 2006 there are LEO on a Spanish-German dictionary with approximately 200,000 entries.

Italian- German

Since April 3, 2008, there is at LEO an Italian-German dictionary. This includes about 170,000 entries.

Chinese- German

Also since 3 April 2008 on LEO a Chinese-German dictionary available. Entering a Chinese term can be made with simplified and traditional characters and pinyin with diacritics, with figures for the volume information or even without a sound indication. The dictionary currently contains about 170,000 entries.

Russian - German

February 18, 2009 LEO announced the creation of a Russian-German dictionary. On 12 April 2010 this was published. The basic data set of this dictionary was made in collaboration with ABBYY Europe GmbH. It consists of about 190,000 entries.

Portuguese- German

For January 14, 2011 LEO announced its intention to create a Portuguese- German dictionary. It was released on 8 February 2013, and so far contains about 60,000 lemmas.

Polish- German

A Polish- German dictionary was issued on February 8, 2013 as well. It currently includes about 50,000 entries.

Information

Links to informative and entertaining offers

With this offer, some links have been collected, so to sports (eg football league ) or literature.

Links to Munich and its surroundings

Here links are offered to Munich, where the topics correspond approximately to those in the first point.

The cocktail bar offers about 2,600 recipes. In addition to an alphabetical search the cocktail bar offers the opportunity to "Mixer" arbitrarily select many ingredients in the so called, to be processed into a cocktail.

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