Posted by chancel on Wednesday, July 16, 2008 at 5:58am.
I would say single-language and dual language (for translating from one language to another). You may be thinking of dictionaries and thesauruses. A thesaurus has a list of synonyms for each word, but so do most dictionaries. Dictionaries tell you more about the meaning(s) and origin of each word.
See
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=1006031902639
for more about the difference
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