{"id":1349,"date":"2009-02-27T10:22:20","date_gmt":"2009-02-27T15:22:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/?p=1349"},"modified":"2009-02-27T10:22:20","modified_gmt":"2009-02-27T15:22:20","slug":"dictionary-data-for-mysql","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/archives\/2009\/02\/27\/dictionary-data-for-mysql","title":{"rendered":"Dictionary data for MySQL?"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m told WordWeb<\/a>, a dictionary application for Windows, allows you to find words, quite unlike the MacOSX dictionary. I’ve never even found a usable dictionary when I use Linux, that doesn’t require me to go online.<\/p>\n

The whole idea is that if I search for the phrase cure all<\/i>, I get back a thesaurus entry that suggests the word panacea<\/i>. OK, that example alone wasn’t so great, because cure-all tends to be a word in these dictionaries. WordWeb Online allows me to have a “reverse dictionary” result, which I think is just fabulous (as long as I have access to an Internet connection).<\/p>\n

Does such a Mac app exist? Seems WordWeb exists for the iPhone, but their Java app, requires an Internet connection.<\/p>\n

What’s interesting is that they sell the dictionary data. They are powered by MySQL, and if you’re wanting to grab their dictionary data<\/a> in either tab separated plain text files or a MySQL database, you fork out a mere USD$999.<\/p>\n

That’s a lot of money for a database file. I have no intention of spending that much money, considering the restrictive licensing on their site. So I searched, and found GCIDE_XML<\/a> – described as “The GNU version of The Collaborative International Dictionary of English, presented in the Extensible Markup Language”. I tried to see if it had reverse dictionary search results, but it didn’t.<\/p>\n

So, does anyone know if there’s English dictionary data out there, for MySQL, that doesn’t cost a bomb and is comparable, to WordWeb? Of course, it also comes with sensible licensing, will be an added bonus.<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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