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Willie Wong wrote: |
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> On Tue, Jan 30, 2007 at 09:04:51PM +0100, Penguin Lover Jakob Buchgraber squawked: |
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>> Is there any excellent monolingual dictionary available for (Gentoo) Linux? |
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> What do you mean by monoligual? (English to English? or other |
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> languages?) |
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> Anycase, I have on my desktop 'sdcv' installed. The last time I |
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> checked (about 18 months ago) it is not in portage. Not quite sure if |
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> it is now. |
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> http://sdcv.sourceforge.net/ |
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> It is a commandline interface for StarDict, and so can just use |
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> stardict's dictionaries. (Speaking of which, if you are willing to |
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> have a GUI, you can just emerge stardict; you would also need to |
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> emerge the dictionaries that you need, they are all under app-dicts |
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> with a stardict- prefix. There are also additional dictionaries that |
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> you can download on http://stardict.sourceforge.net/) |
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> On my laptop, I just run a dictd server (emerge dictd). You also need |
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> to install dictionary files, again, all under app-dicts/dictd-* |
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> For English to English, I suggest the WordNet dictionary. |
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> You can also, alternatively, just emerge wordnet. |
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> Personally, if you just need an English-English dictionary, I would |
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> suggest using wordnet. Dictd is a bit fancier, but you might not find |
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> it more useful (I personally find the elements database quite useful |
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> every now and then). If you need support for other languages, I would |
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> suggest StarDict. |
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> Also, you can just look into the portage tree under app-dicts and |
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> app-text |
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> HTH, |
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> W |
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Thanks for your reply! |
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Yeah, I am looking for an English to English dictionary. I already tried |
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all available dictionaries in portage however nothing really satisfied |
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my needs ... |
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Does anybody know something similar to the Cambridge dictionary? Because |
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this is really a great monolingual dictionary only available for |
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Windows, tough ... |
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Cheers, |
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Jakob |
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