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Subject: SQL Dictionary Database wanted for web page
Category: Computers > Software
Asked by: urryan-ga
List Price: $10.00
Posted: 25 Nov 2002 11:34 PST
Expires: 25 Dec 2002 11:34 PST
Question ID: 114347
I'm looking for a dictionary/thesaurus system with pronunciations and
synonyms that we can use on our web page.  I would like the database
to be housed on our own SQL server.  If it is not SQL-based, it would
need to be able to be converted to SQL.

The application of this is for a user "help" system.  When a user
clicks on the "Help ?" button on our web page, the mouse pointer would
then change to a help pointer.  Then the user can simply double-click
on any word on the web page for a definition pop-up, pulling from this
SQL database.

Our web page is www.cloverlink.com.

Where can I find such a database?
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Subject: Re: SQL Dictionary Database wanted for web page
Answered By: sublime1-ga on 25 Nov 2002 21:37 PST
 
urryan...

Meet Chris Knight, a self-described "Trancendental Coder".
He created such a dictionary in SQL in a few hours, and 
now has a site called The Hyper Dictionary, or The 
Exploding Dictionary:
http://www.hyperdictionary.com/

He explains the project here:
http://www.hyperdictionary.com/about.html

Chris notes that he drew from The DICT Development Group:
http://www.dict.org/

The Dict Group has a dictionary here:
http://www.dict.org/bin/Dict

...and a resource page here:
http://www.dict.org/links.html

Chris notes that he has now adopted the DICT database,
but it seems likely that he still has the SQL database
laying around somewhere, and his email is available on
the "about" page at hyperdictionary, above. I believe
he'd be delighted to hear from you.

Here's a pageful of dictionary resources from dmoz.org,
but Chris' site was the only mention I found of an SQL
database (both on that page and in the Google search
just beneath):
http://dmoz.org/Reference/Dictionaries/


Searches done, via Google:

"sql database" thesaurus dictionary
://www.google.com/search?num=50&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&safe=off&q=%22sql+database%22+thesaurus+dictionary

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