Questions tagged [dictionary]
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Best Dictionary Software for Linux
Can anyone suggest a good "Dictionary" software in Linux. I have artha, but I am actually expecting a better one.
Ok here are things which i look out for in a dictionary:
Good database
Word pronounciation (This is not available in Artha.)
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Where do the words in /usr/share/dict/words come from?
/usr/share/dict/words contains lots of words. How is this list generated? Are its contents the same across different Unices? Is there any standard dictating what it must contain?
All I've been able to turn up so far is that on Ubuntu/Debian the list…
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Vocabulary trainer for Unix
I am looking for a Linux (Ubuntu) software that allows me to take note of new words that I learn online.
I manually add new words, their meaning and usage. The software then displays each item in a nice format and allows me to review them in a…
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Look for English word in a file via terminal
How to find and print out English words contained in a file via linux command line?
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Is there something like google translate but for desktop?
I saw we have freeict-all in debian.
$ sudo aptitude install dict-freedict-all
[sudo] password for shirish:
The following NEW packages will be installed:
dict-freedict-afr-deu{a} dict-freedict-afr-eng{a}…
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How can I export my aspell dictionary?
At the moment, I'm working on a big LaTeX document about mathematics and once in a while I do some spell-checking on it. As you can guess, there are a lot of words which are not in a standard dictionary. But I've added them with aspell with a to the…
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Use multi language dictionary with aspell
I have a large .tex file that contains two languages and I want to spellcheck it without going crazy. So just spellchecking for one language and pressing "ignore" for words from the other language is not an option.
So I read up on aspell and found…
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Which applications use /usr/share/dict/words
I have changed the symlink /usr/share/dict/words to point to my own custom dictionary but it doesn't seem to affect anything.
Chromium and Abiword neither seem to use this dictionary.
Which appilications use words? Do I have to manually configure…
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Where can I find a Welsh word list?
I am looking for a Welsh language word list on my Ubuntu system. apt-file search /usr/share/dict/ doesn't show an option. However aspell-cy does exist. The official description is "This package contains all the required files to add support for the…
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Getting a wordlist from a DICT formatted dictionary
I want a latin word list for research / reference purposes. (Like /usr/share/dict/words)
There would appear to be no such word list (apt-file search /usr/share/dict | sort | uniq | grep latin), but there is a DICT english latin dictionary:…
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Who or what compiled /usr/share/dict/words?
Wikipedia says it's part of the wishlist
Wordlist or Words package
On Debian and Ubuntu, the words file is provided by the wordlist package, or its provider packages wbritish, wamerican, etc. On Fedora and Arch, the words file is provided by the…
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How to list available dictionaries for hunspell?
Is there some way to list all available dictionaries in hunspell? Something like aspell dump dicts. printf | hunspell -D prints too much junk, and I want to query hunspell itself, not do something like find /usr/share/myspell/dicts/ -name '*.dic' |…
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In Fedora, how do I turn off the automatic dictionary suggestions?
I just installed Fedora 19 in VirtualBox using an image from virtualboxes.org. It suggests words from a dictionary wherever I type. It's slow and it won't let me type what I want, since it automatically inserts the topmost dictionary…
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How do I properly convert the file to UTF-16LE encoding without strange characters appearing in the file?
I'm having some peculiarities with the dictionary file of .dsl format I'm trying to convert. It's essentially a text file with the dictionary pairs. The dictionary software I use is GoldenDict. It requires UTF-16 dictionaries so they render…
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dictionaries-common package complains of possible debconf corruption
Upgrading my Debian Stretch distribution, I get the following error message during the configuration of package dictionaries-common:
┌───────────────────┤ dictionaries-common: wordlists ├───────────────────┐
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