stardict

This one is a GUI, looks pretty nifty.  The glob pattern matching
is a nice touch, as is the font support:

   http://stardict.sourceforge.net/


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Chris Ahlstrom <ahlstromc@xzoozy.com> writes:

> stardict
>
> This one is a GUI, looks pretty nifty.  The glob pattern matching
> is a nice touch, as is the font support:
>
>    http://stardict.sourceforge.net/

How does it compare to the other ones? Shares resources with other
dictionary apps? What apps does it interface too? What does it do better
or worse then things like ddict?

The GUI is horrible btw.

Once upon a midnight dreary, as I laboured lone & weary, Chris Ahlstrom
on 17/1/2011 11:57 shattered the silence with:

> stardict
>
> This one is a GUI, looks pretty nifty.  The glob pattern matching
> is a nice touch, as is the font support:
>
>    http://stardict.sourceforge.net/

I have GoldenDict installed from the Ubuntu repositories.
http://goldendict.org/screenshots.php


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> Once upon a midnight dreary, as I laboured lone & weary, Chris Ahlstrom
> on 17/1/2011 11:57 shattered the silence with:
>
>> stardict
>>
>> This one is a GUI, looks pretty nifty.  The glob pattern matching
>> is a nice touch, as is the font support:
>>
>>    http://stardict.sourceforge.net/
>
> I have GoldenDict installed from the Ubuntu repositories.
> http://goldendict.org/screenshots.php

Installing as we speak.  Choice is good!

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Chris Ahlstrom <ahlstromc@xzoozy.com> writes:

> William Poaster wrote this copyrighted missive and expects royalties:
>
>> Once upon a midnight dreary, as I laboured lone & weary, Chris Ahlstrom
>> on 17/1/2011 11:57 shattered the silence with:
>>
>>> stardict
>>>
>>> This one is a GUI, looks pretty nifty.  The glob pattern matching
>>> is a nice touch, as is the font support:
>>>
>>>    http://stardict.sourceforge.net/
>>
>> I have GoldenDict installed from the Ubuntu repositories.
>> http://goldendict.org/screenshots.php
>
> Installing as we speak.  Choice is good!


GoldenDict is all over stardict which is amateurish, ugly and
unnecessary.

That said Goldendict uses the notoriously bulky webkit.

I use dictem with Emacs. Fast, configurable and no gui overhead other
than the one I know - Emacs.

http://sourceforge.net/projects/dictem/files/dictem/

Funny how "vi"-boy is now getting all moist about overly feature rich
GUIs now ....

Chris Ahlstrom wrote this copyrighted missive and expects royalties:

> William Poaster wrote this copyrighted missive and expects royalties:
>
>> I have GoldenDict installed from the Ubuntu repositories.
>> http://goldendict.org/screenshots.php
>
> Installing as we speak.  Choice is good!

Nice GUI app, also, while it is running, double-clicking in goldendict
brings up a definition for that word.  The hotkey doesn't seem to work
outside of goldendict, though.

Stardict does something similar -- it brings up a dictionary pop-up with the
definition.

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"Chris Ahlstrom" <ahlstromc@xzoozy.com> schreef in bericht 
news:ih1ao1$t9r$1@news.eternal-september.org...
> stardict
>
> This one is a GUI, looks pretty nifty.  The glob pattern matching
> is a nice touch, as is the font support:
>
>   http://stardict.sourceforge.net/
>
No thanks, I got these:
http://www.urbandictionary.com/
http://dict.tu-chemnitz.de/dings.cgi?o=302;service=deen;iservice=dict-en;query=mutt
;-)

Hadron stated in post ih1k1g$6l9$1@news.eternal-september.org on 1/17/11
7:34 AM:

> Chris Ahlstrom <ahlstromc@xzoozy.com> writes:
> 
>> William Poaster wrote this copyrighted missive and expects royalties:
>> 
>>> Once upon a midnight dreary, as I laboured lone & weary, Chris Ahlstrom
>>> on 17/1/2011 11:57 shattered the silence with:
>>> 
>>>> stardict
>>>> 
>>>> This one is a GUI, looks pretty nifty.  The glob pattern matching
>>>> is a nice touch, as is the font support:
>>>> 
>>>>    http://stardict.sourceforge.net/
>>> 
>>> I have GoldenDict installed from the Ubuntu repositories.
>>> http://goldendict.org/screenshots.php
>> 
>> Installing as we speak.  Choice is good!
> 
> 
> GoldenDict is all over stardict which is amateurish, ugly and
> unnecessary.
> 
> That said Goldendict uses the notoriously bulky webkit.

Webkit is bulky?  I thought it was a pretty minimal web rendering engine
compared to, say, what Firefox uses (or IE).

> I use dictem with Emacs. Fast, configurable and no gui overhead other
> than the one I know - Emacs.
> 
> http://sourceforge.net/projects/dictem/files/dictem/
> 
> Funny how "vi"-boy is now getting all moist about overly feature rich
> GUIs now ....
> 
> 
> 
> 



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> "Chris Ahlstrom" <ahlstromc@xzoozy.com> schreef in bericht 
> news:ih1ao1$t9r$1@news.eternal-september.org...
>> stardict
>>
>> This one is a GUI, looks pretty nifty.  The glob pattern matching
>> is a nice touch, as is the font support:
>>
>>   http://stardict.sourceforge.net/
>>
> No thanks, I got these:
> http://www.urbandictionary.com/

Nice, thorough.

> http://dict.tu-chemnitz.de/dings.cgi?o=302;service=deen;iservice=dict-en;query=mutt

Not so nice.  Barebones definition.  These are all better:

$ dictionary mutt  (a wrapper for 'dict')
3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  mutt \mutt\ n.
     An dog that is of inferior quality or of mixed breed.

     Syn: cur, mongrel.
          [WordNet 1.5]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  mutt
       n : an inferior dog or one of mixed breed [syn: {cur}, {mongrel}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  29 Moby Thesaurus words for "mutt":
     asshole, blockhead, boob, booby, chump, cur, dimwit, ding-a-ling,
     dingbat, dingdong, dolt, dope, dumbbell, galoot, goof, idiot,
     ignoramus, jerk, jerk-off, klutz, lurcher, mongrel, numskull,
     pariah dog, prize sap, sap, saphead, sawney, schlemiel

$ wiktionary mutt
1 definition found

From en.wiktionary.org [en]:

  mutt

    English

      Pronunciation

        * {{audio|en-us-mutt.ogg|Audio (US)}}
        * : {{rhymes|ʌt}}

      Noun

        {{en-noun}}

        1. A mongrel dog; a dog of mixed breed or uncertain origin.
        2. {{figuratively|sometimes|pejorative}} A person of diverse ancestry.

      See also

        * bitsa, bitser
        * cur
        * mongrel
        * Mutt and Jeff

Ref: http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/mutt

$ aiksaurus mutt
=== goof =====================
asshole, blockhead, boob, booby, breast, chump, dingdong, dolt, dunce, fathead, galoot, goof, idiot, jerk, klutz, lunkhead, mutt, oaf, schlemiel

$ stardict

mutt
mutt(1)                           User 
NAME
       mutt - The Mutt Mail User Agent

<man page snipped>

$ goldendict

Fromm WordNet 3.0 (En-En)
mutt
noun
an inferior dog or one of mixed breed
 Syn: cur, mongrel
 Derivationally related forms: mongrelize (for: mongrel)
 Hypernyms: dog, domestic dog, Canis familiaris
 Hyponyms: feist, fice, pariah dog, pye-dog, pie-dog

From English Wikipedia
   Look up mutt in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
Mutt may refer to:
Contents
1 Animals
2 People
3 Music
4 Comics
5 Other uses
[edit]Animals
Mixed-breed dog, a dog of unknown mixed ancestry
[edit]People
Rodney Mullen (born 1966), skateboarder
Robert John "Mutt" Lange (born 1948), music producer
[edit]Music
MUTT, an album by Roots music group, Lost Dogs
"Mutt", a song from blink-182's 1999 album Enema of the State
[edit]Comics
Mutt, a character in the Mutt and Jeff (comic strip)
Mutts, a daily comic strip by Patrick McDonnell
Mutt (G.I. Joe), a character from the G.I. Joe universe
[edit]Other uses
M151 MUTT or (Military Utility Tactical Truck), a US military vehicle
Mutt (e-mail client), a terminal-based e-mail client for Unix-like systems
Mutt, alternate spelling for Matha, a Hindu or Jain religious establishment
   This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the same title.
If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article.

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>> "Chris Ahlstrom" <ahlstromc@xzoozy.com> schreef in bericht
>> news:ih1ao1$t9r$1@news.eternal-september.org...
>>> stardict
>>>
>>> This one is a GUI, looks pretty nifty.  The glob pattern matching
>>> is a nice touch, as is the font support:
>>>
>>>   http://stardict.sourceforge.net/
>>>
>> No thanks, I got these:
>> http://www.urbandictionary.com/
>
> Nice, thorough.

The derived meaning on the left are funny:
lol , MUTT MUTT FLAPS,
FRUMPY HOO LIPS,PUFFY MEAT CURTAINS THAT DANGLE FREELY

>
>> http://dict.tu-chemnitz.de/dings.cgi?o=302;service=deen;iservice=dict-en;query=mutt
>
> Not so nice.  Barebones definition.  These are all better:
>
Yeah, a limited one, Answers.com offers more translations: 
http://www.answers.com/topic/mutt