dictionary

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This is a web front-end to the dictionary server dictd. It uses the Perl module Net::Dict, by Dmitry Rubinstein <[email protected]> and Neil Bowers <[email protected]>.

While there are other versions of the Jargon File and The Free On-Line Dictionary of Computing available that have more extensive internal hyperlinking, this cgi generates links that apply to all the dictionaries.

Currently included dictionaries:

• V.E.R.A. -- Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (June 2006)
• Jargon File (4.4.4, 14 Aug 2003)
• The Devil's Dictionary (1881-1906)
• Who Was Who: 5000 B. C. to Date
• The Elements (07Nov00)
• The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (8 July 2008)
• U.S. Gazetteer Places (2000)
• Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
• CIA World Factbook 2006
• Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary
• Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856)
• U.S. Gazetteer Counties (2000)
• U.S. Gazetteer (1990)
• The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
• WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
• Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (late 1800's)
• U.S. Gazetteer Zip Code Tabulation Areas (2000)

Many of the internal hyperlinks are broken. This is either because the dictionary is just like that or because my regular expressions are mangled.

The DICT Development Group, who did all the hard work for this dictionary action, also has a web front-end. I discovered it after I wrote mine...