From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
DICT is a
dictionary
network protocol created by the
DICT Development Group. It is described by
RFC 2229. Its goal is to surpass the
Webster protocol and to allow clients to access more
dictionaries at the same time. Usually it runs over port 2628.
Several free dictionaries are available in the DICT format,
many of them as
Debian packages:
-
Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
-
V.E.R.A.
-
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary
-
WordNet
-
Jargon File
-
The Devil's Dictionary (©1911)
-
Elements database
-
U.S. Gazetteer (1990)
-
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
-
CIA World Factbook
-
Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary
-
Moby Thesaurus
- the
freedict bilingual dictionaries
Combined, they make up the
Free Internet Lexicon and Encyclopedia.
Other DICT servers:
- Dictionary in
Mac OS X Tiger suppresses proper dict:///word
handling by sending all such urls to its own copy of the
Oxford English Dictionary
Some DICT protocol clients:
-
Kdict, comes with
KDE
-
gnome-dictionary, comes with
GNOME
-
dictem, for
Emacs editor
- dict.org's
dict
-
OmniDictionary, for
Mac OS X
-
MaemoDict, for the
Nokia 770
-
Fantasdic
-
ZopeDictDB for
Zope from
Pentila
StarDict is a desktop dictionary. It doesn't support the
DICT protocol directly. Instead, it provides a converter, which
would imply that you need to store data twice if you want to use
it both with the DICT protocol and with StarDict.
There are also programs that reads the Dict file format
directly, for example
S60Dict, is a dictionary program for Symbian Series 60 that
uses DICT dictionaries.
See also
External links
-
dict.org
-
DICT protocol server list
-
RFC 2229 - Definition of the DICT protocol
-
wik2dict, a tool to download Wikipedia and Wiktionary
database dumps and convert them into the dict format
Category:
Internet protocols