From: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: <alinsoar@voila.fr>, <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: RE: English dictionary with definitions.
Date: Mon, 29 Nov 2010 07:07:54 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <85E794E5C8254A249DDA9726115FB34B@us.oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3244976.3153221291021573445.JavaMail.www@wwinf4629>
> > > I wish to ask you what is the best choice for an English
> > > dictionary with definitions.
> >
> > There probably is no "best choice".
> >
> > For American English, "American Heritage Dictionary" is
> quite good, especially
> > its comparative treatment of usage for synonyms and other
> related words.
> >
>
> Where can I find it in emacs ?
Dunno; you probably cannot. (You didn't mention anything about that.) I
thought you were just looking for a (physical book) dictionary.
But on Emacs Wiki I believe there are several Emacs commands (libraries) that
let you get to online dictionaries.
----
If you want access to a thesaurus within Emacs, you can use synonyms.el. I use
it with an English thesaurus, but I know that it is also used with a German
thesaurus by some. The Emacs library is separate from the thesaurus file, which
needs to be plain text, comma-separated.
http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/Synonyms
http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/synonyms.el
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-11-29 15:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-11-29 9:06 English dictionary with definitions A. Soare
2010-11-29 15:07 ` Drew Adams [this message]
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2010-12-11 0:28 A. Soare
2010-12-08 21:33 A. Soare
2010-12-10 0:12 ` Richard Stallman
2010-12-10 17:07 ` Bernardo Barros
2010-11-30 1:15 MON KEY
2010-11-29 9:05 A. Soare
2010-11-29 20:43 ` Richard Stallman
2010-11-28 11:10 Alin Soare
2010-11-28 16:39 ` Drew Adams
2010-11-28 17:02 ` Sean Sieger
2010-11-28 21:00 ` Richard Stallman
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