There are some good tools accessible from
http://freshmeat.net/search/?q=dict&trove_cat_id=226§ion=trove_cat.
On Wed, 10 Apr 2002 10:43:39 -0400, Tim Holmes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Is there some console tool which will search some online dictionary for
> definitions?
>
> At work we used to
Is there some console tool which will search some online dictionary for
definitions?
At work we used to have a tool call webster. Which would do just that,
but it was discontinued and I've never been able to find something like
that.
Does anybody have any sort of idea/suggestions for this? Tha
On Friday 05 April 2002 05:10 pm, Robin Turner wrote:
> On Friday 05 April 2002 17:30, Roman Korcek wrote:
> > a few more times.
> > The term itself is probably derived from the German word "Fenster"
> > (window).
>
> Probably from Latin "fenestra" - same idea.
>
> I vaguely remember the Defenestr
Ricardo Castanho de O. Freitas's message on Friday 05 April 2002 03:41 pm,
stated:
On Fri, 5 Apr 2002, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote:
Yep! I got the very same answer on kdict!
For those like me to that use regurlaly dictionaries
Beware.
On Friday 05 April 2002 17:30, Roman Korcek wrote:
> a few more times.
> The term itself is probably derived from the German word "Fenster"
> (window).
Probably from Latin "fenestra" - same idea.
I vaguely remember the Defenestration of Prague, when the Czechs applied
their traditional vote of
On Fri, 5 Apr 2002, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote:
Yep! I got the very same answer on kdict!
For those like me to that use regurlaly dictionaries
Beware.
Ricardo Castanho
>I loaded gdict (I would assume that this would work with kdict as well), which
>is set to use the server dict.org on po
On Fri, 5 Apr 2002 16:30:50 +0200, Roman Korcek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi Sridhar,
>
> > I loaded gdict (I would assume that this would work with kdict as well),
> > which is set to use the server dict.org on port 2628. I then entered the
> > word"defenestration" (without the quotes). Here'
Hi Sridhar,
> I loaded gdict (I would assume that this would work with kdict as well), which
> is set to use the server dict.org on port 2628. I then entered the word
> "defenestration" (without the quotes). Here's what I got:
> defenestration n. mythically from a traditional Czech
> assas
I can comment on "Defenestrate", and that is correct to throw something
out of a window, as for the other, looks like artistic license.
Tony.
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