From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: MON KEY Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: English dictionary with definitions Date: Mon, 29 Nov 2010 20:15:22 -0500 Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1291079738 12417 80.91.229.12 (30 Nov 2010 01:15:38 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2010 01:15:38 +0000 (UTC) Cc: sean.sieger@gmail.com, rms@gnu.org, Drew Adams , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: alinsoar@voila.fr Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Nov 30 02:15:32 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PNEoc-0006Ej-Fr for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 30 Nov 2010 02:15:30 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:58419 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PNEob-0006sH-Rq for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 29 Nov 2010 20:15:29 -0500 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=41258 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PNEoX-0006rX-W7 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 29 Nov 2010 20:15:26 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PNEoW-00072q-RS for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 29 Nov 2010 20:15:25 -0500 Original-Received: from mail-ww0-f49.google.com ([74.125.82.49]:51039) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PNEoW-00072l-GI; Mon, 29 Nov 2010 20:15:24 -0500 Original-Received: by wwb13 with SMTP id 13so32396wwb.30 for ; Mon, 29 Nov 2010 17:15:23 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: by 10.216.238.130 with SMTP id a2mr1059510wer.28.1291079722452; Mon, 29 Nov 2010 17:15:22 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: by 10.216.70.212 with HTTP; Mon, 29 Nov 2010 17:15:22 -0800 (PST) X-Google-Sender-Auth: DDI73tlJUblQfzb8QLWL-sGhgj8 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:133245 Archived-At: There is this: http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/google-define.el And my modified version of same: http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/google-define-redux.el But, either of these will return aggregate definitions direct to yoru local emacs. But, they are maybe a kind of SOS (or otherwise a giant GG advert) so it (and those like it) should not IMO be included w/ Emacs. If you can afford it the abridged OED is quite nice They also make a very French/English dictionary as well. The newest version of the latter is interesting because it explored a novel technique for multi-lingual corpus creation w/ KWIC... You might also have luck with one of the Emacs Wordnet interfaces, though i find these to be overkill for routine word lookup. -- /s_P\