dictionary

if you want to look something up, type it in...

This is a web front-end to the dictionary server dictd. It uses the Perl module Net::Dict, by Dmitry Rubinstein <dimrub@wisdom.weizmann.ac.il> and Neil Bowers <neil@bowers.com>.

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:

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...


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