Dictionaries (Dutch: Woordenboeken) have an important meaning to me.
To be able to express yourself in yoor own and foreign languages is great fun.
To make the various entries more open to all people the native language us used for the Country subjects.
Many software for dictionaries and translations are available. Some examples:
- Babylon, expensive and not very good.
- StarDict, Sourceforge, free. Uses dict-files [1]
Apple Dictionary
Apple Dictionaries are part of the OSX system. The location to add third party libraries is
~/Library/Dictionaries
The structure of the library files is for example for the freedict file for German to Dutch (dictd_www.freedict.de_deu-nld.dictionary) :
$ pwd
~/Librabrydictd_www.freedict.de_deu-nld.dictionary/Contents/Body.data
~/Library/Dictionaries/dictd_www.freedict.de_deu-nld.dictionary/Contents/Body.data
$ ls
DefaultStyle.css
EntryID.data
EntryID.index
Info.plist
KeyText.data
KeyText.index
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English
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| Keyword
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URL
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Description
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| Webster
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http://www.webster.com
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Merriam Webster is America's foremost publisher of language-related reference works. The company publishes a diverse array of print and electronic products, including Merriam-Webster's Collegiate® Dictionary
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General
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| Keyword
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URL
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Description
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| Babelfish
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http://babelfish.altavista.com
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Altavista Text Translation service
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| Free Dictionary
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http://www.tfd.com
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The Free Dictionary is the most comprehensive dictionary: English, Spanish, German, French, Italian, Chinese, Portuguese, Dutch, Norwegian, Greek, Arabic, Polish, Turkish, Russian, Medical, Legal, and Financial Dictionaries, Thesaurus, Acronyms and Abbreviations, Idioms, Encyclopedia, a Literature Reference Library, and a Search Engine all in one!
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| Google
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http://translate.google.com
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Google Text Translation service
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German
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See also
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References
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- ↑ SourceForge StarDict, is a Cross-Platform and international dictionary Software. It has powerful features such as "Glob-style pattern matching", "Scan selection word," "Fuzzy query," etc. Stardict Version 3.0 has developed a lot of new functions, such as Full-text translation, Net Dict.
