GCIDE is the
GNU
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version of
Collaborative International Dictionary of English, derived from the 1913 edition of
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary and
WordNet
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. The
dictionary
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is released under the
GNU General Public License
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.
It describes itself as "a freely-available set of
ASCII
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files containing the marked-up text of a substantial English dictionary".
See also
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GNU Aspell
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, a spellchecker
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DICT
DICT is a dictionary network protocol created by the DICT Development Group in 1997, described by RFC 2229. Its goal is to surpass the Webster protocol to allow clients to access a variety of dictionaries via a uniform interface.
In section ...
, a protocol for dictionary access
References
External links
GCIDE homepageGCIDE FTP siteGCIDE_XML- An
XML
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version of the dictionary, along with an online search facility.
GNU Dico web search
{{Dictionaries of English
GNU Project
Online English dictionaries