El Grupo de Desarrollo de DICT pretende dar solución a un problema: ¿cómo estandarizar el acceso a los múltiples diccionarios disponibles?
RFC 2229 describe el protocolo DICT como un protocolo de consulta/respuesta sobre TCP que permite a un cliente acceder a un diccionario de definiciones utilizando un conjunto de bases de datos de diccionarios de lenguajes naturales.
El grupo de desarrollo tiene su página en http://www.dict.org. Los servidores y clientes son libres (licencia GPL). Existen diccionarios y tesauros que pueden instalarse localmente. La distribución que utilizo, GNU Debian Woody, incluye los siguientes diccionarios de interés en nuestro campo:
the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English, which is based on the Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (G & C. Merriam Co., 1913, edited by Noah Porter), supplemented by many definitions from WordNet, the Century Dictionary, 1906, and by numerous definitions contributed by volunteers.
WordNet 1.7, A Lexical Database for English from the Cognitive Science Laboratory at Princeton University. WordNet defines only nouns, verbs, adjectives and adverbs. Other parts of speech, such as pronouns and articles, are omitted. Definitions in this dictionary are more concise that in the 1913 Webster. This is a 2001 edition, so it fills in many of the gaps left by the latter.
the Free On-line Dictionary of Computing, and the Hacker's Jargon file. There is a great deal of overlap between the Jargon file and the FOLDOC. Although the FOLDOC is much larger than the Jargon file, there are numerous entries in the Jargon file that are not found in FOLDOC.
a dictionary of acronyms used in the computer field.
diccionario inglés-español de Alfredo Casademunt, a su vez basado en el trabajo de José Luis Triviño.
Además, he añadido
en su versión .dict
descargados de http://www.freedict.d
English-German dictionary ( ftp://ftp.leo.org/pub/comp/doc/dict/ )
Un ejemplo nos mostrará su uso:
[Mi_maquina]$ dict font
da la siguiente salida
8 definitions found
From WordNet (r) 1.7 [wn]:
font
n 1: a specific size and style of type within a type
family [syn: {fount}, {typeface}, {face}]
2: bowl for baptismal water
[syn: {baptismal font}, {baptistry},
{baptistery}]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
[gcide]:
Font \Font\, n. [F. fonte, fr. fondre to melt or cast. See
{Found} to cast, and cf. {Fount} a font.] (Print.)
A complete assortment of printing type of one size,
including a due proportion of all the letters in the
alphabet, large and small, points, accents, and whatever
else is necessary for printing with that variety of types;
a fount.
[1913 Webster]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
[gcide]:
Font \Font\, n. [AS. font, fant, fr. L. fons, fontis, spring,
fountain; cf. OF. font, funt, F. fonts, fonts baptismaux,
pl. See {Fount}.]
1. A fountain; a spring; a source.
[1913 Webster]
Bathing forever in the font of bliss. --Young.
[1913 Webster]
2. A basin or stone vessel in which water is contained for
baptizing.
[1913 Webster]
That name was given me at the font. --Shak.
[1913 Webster]
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (09 FEB 02)
[foldoc]:
font
A set of {glyphs} ({images}) representing the
{characters} from some particular {character set} in a
particular size and {typeface}. The image of each character
may be encoded either as a {bitmap} (in a {bitmap font}) or
by a higher-level description in terms of lines and areas
(an {outline font}).
There are several different computer representations for
fonts, the most widely known are {Adobe Systems, Inc.}'s
{PostScript} font definitions and {Apple}'s {TrueType}.
{Window systems} can display different fonts on the screen
and print them.
[Other types of font?]
(2001-04-27)
From i2e [i2e]:
font : tipo (de letra)
From i2e [i2e]:
font : fuente
From ORCA - Glosario de Informática Inglés-Español
[glosario]:
font
fuente, tipo de letra, (TIPO DE LETRA, fuente, en español,
tiene que ver con agua, no con tipografía)
From LEO ftp collection [leo_ftp]:
font
Schrift
Schriftart