DICT
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DICT is a dictionary network protocol created by the DICT Development Group. It is described by RFC 2229. Its goal is to surpass the Webster protocol and to allow clients to access more dictionaries during use. Dict servers and clients use TCP port 2628.
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[edit] Free dictionaries available in the DICT format:
[edit] English dictionaries:
- Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
- Oxford Advanced Learners' dictionary
- Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
- V.E.R.A. — Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms which are used in the field of computing
- FREELANG Dictionary
- Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary
- WordNet
- Jargon File
- The Devil's Dictionary (1911)
- Elements database
- The U.S. Gazetteer (1990 Census)
- CIA World Factbook
- Easton's Bible Dictionary (1897)
- Moby Thesaurus
- the freedict bilingual dictionaries
Combined, they make up the Free Internet Lexicon and Encyclopedia.
[edit] Dictionaries for other lanuages:
- English-French dictionary
- Mueller's English-Russian dictionary
- Big English-Russian Dictionary
- Lingvo English-Russian and Russian-English dictionaries are not free, but when
purchased, can easily be converted into DICT format
[edit] DICT servers:
- dictd (the standard server made by the DICT Development Group)
[edit] DICT clients:
- Kdict, comes with KDE
- KTranslator, KDE dictionary
- gnome-dictionary, comes with GNOME
- dictem, for the Emacs text editor
- dict.org's own dict client
- OmniDictionary, for Mac OS X
- Dictionary, an application included with Mac OS X. Online dictionaries can be accessed by setting it as the helper for 'dict://' URI schemes.
- MaemoDict, for the Nokia 770
- Fantasdic
- ZopeDictDB for Zope from Pentila
- Sdcv -- fast command-line version of Stardict
- StarDict
StarDict is a desktop dictionary. It doesn't support the DICT protocol directly. Instead, it provides a converter, which would imply that you need to store data twice if you want to use it both with the DICT protocol and with StarDict.
There are also programs that read the DICT file format directly. For example, S60Dict is a dictionary program for Symbian Series 60 that uses DICT dictionaries.
[edit] See also
[edit] External links
- dict.org DICT Development Group. A WWW interface to several freely available on-line dictionaries.
- Aioe.org hosts a large collection of free ready to use DICT dictionaries and a free DICT server
- A collection of free dictionaries in DICT format at the StarDict home page
- Another collection of dictionaries in DICT format
- A collection of English-Russian dictionaries in DICT format
- A collection of French dictionaries in DICT format
- yet another collection of dictionaries
- DICT protocol server list
- RFC 2229 — Definition of the DICT server protocol
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