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 at the same time. Usually it runs over port 2628.
Several free dictionaries are available in the DICT format, many of them as Debian packages:
- Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
- V.E.R.A.
- Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary
- WordNet
- Jargon File
- The Devil's Dictionary (©1911)
- Elements database
- U.S. Gazetteer (1990)
- Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
- CIA World Factbook
- Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary
- Moby Thesaurus
- the freedict bilingual dictionaries
Combined, they make up the Free Internet Lexicon and Encyclopedia.
Other DICT servers:
- Dictionary in Mac OS X v10.4 suppresses proper dict:///word handling by sending all such urls to its own copy of the Oxford English Dictionary
Some DICT protocol clients:
- Kdict, comes with KDE
- gnome-dictionary, comes with GNOME
- dictem, for Emacs editor
- dict.org's dict
- OmniDictionary, for Mac OS X
- MaemoDict, for the Nokia 770
- Fantasdic
- ZopeDictDB for Zope from Pentila
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 reads 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 protocol server list
- RFC 2229 - Definition of the DICT protocol
- wik2dict, a tool to download Wikipedia and Wiktionary database dumps and convert them into the dict format
