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Oh wow. I just discovered this dictionary recently myself, via the GNU Collaborative International Dictionary of English [0]. It turns out that this is the pri
by xelxebar 8y ago
Oh wow. I just discovered this dictionary recently myself, via the GNU Collaborative International Dictionary of English [0].
It turns out that this is the primary default for the cli dictionary tool `dict` [1], which has happily become my go-to.
[0]:http://gcide.gnu.org.ua/ http://gcide.gnu.org.ua/
[1]:http://sourceforge.net/projects/dict/ http://sourceforge.net/projects/dict/
- jimbosis 8y agoThe Dictionary [1] program included with MATE also defaults to giving definitions from Webster's 1913. This is because it is using dict.org [2], which serves _The Collaborative International Dictionary of English_ v.0.48 (GCIDE) as it's default dictionary [3]. [1] https://github.com/mate-desktop/mate-utils/tree/master/mate-dictionary https://github.com/mate-desktop/mate-utils/tree/master/mate-... [2] http://www.dict.org/bin/Dict http://www.dict.org/bin/Dict [3] http://www.dict.org/bin/Dict?Form=Dict3&Database=gcide http://www.dict.org/bin/Dict?Form=Dict3&Database=gcide edit: Newline formatting.