Re: dict in Emacs

[Xah Lee]

Xah wrote:
«one solution is actually to use a browser. i.e. you hit a button in
emacs, and emacs switchs you to your browser showing the definition
using a online dictionary. Here's the code:

(defun word-definition-lookup ()
"Look up the word under cursor in a browser."
 (interactive)
 (browse-url
  (concat "http://www.answers.com/main/ntquery?s=";
          (thing-at-point 'word)))
)

»

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Torben Knudsen wrote:
«I tried to use this with http://www.dict.org/bin/Dict.  However, I
can't figure out what to do to look up a specific word i.e. something
similar tohttp://www.answers.com/main/ntquery?s=whatever.  What do I
need for dict?»

Seems to be this (suppose confound is the word to lookup):

http://www.dict.org/bin/Dict?Form=Dict2&Database=*&Query=confound

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Here are some example urls query for some other dict sites:

American Heritage Dictionary (AHD)
     http://www.answers.com/main/ntquery?s=confound

http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/confound

Merriem Webster
 http://m-w.com/dictionary/confound

Compact Oxford Eng Dict
 http://www.askoxford.com/concise_oed/confound?view=uk

others, most of which uses AHD:

http://www.bartleby.com/cgi-bin/texis/webinator/sitesearch?FILTER=col61&query=confound

http://www.yourdictionary.com/ahd/search?p=confound

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/confound

PS among all English dicts i've used in the past 2 decades, i like AHD
the most.

btw, there's also encarta dict online, and yahoo.com also hosts AHD if
i recall correctly.

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comp lang references and Wikipedia

Perl           http://perldoc.perl.org/search.html?q=confound

PHP            http://us.php.net/confound

LSL            http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/confound

Wikipedia      http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/confound

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personally, i'd like to find one for java, python, and perhaps elisp
too.

  Xah
  xah@xahlee.org
∑ http://xahlee.org/

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