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The xdxf file extension is associated with the XML Dictionary eXchange Format, a universal file format used to store open dictionaries in XML-based format. The repository now stored about 615 dictionaries. Mime types: application/xml. Stardict dictionary is usually composed of 3 files.ifo,.dict (or dict.dz – compressed definition) and.idx. (if.ifo is missing it can be easily recreated – it's text file). One of standard formats is XDXF, which is basically XML with terms/keys and definitions. XDXF site also contains many dictionaries in this format.

  1. Xdxf Dictionaries Word
  2. Xdxf Dictionary
  3. Xdxf Dictionaries English

DICT is a dictionarynetwork protocol created by the DICT Development Group.[1] It is described by RFC 2229, published in 1997. Its goal is to surpass the Webster protocol and to allow clients to access more dictionaries during use. DICT servers and clients use TCP port 2628.

Resources for free dictionaries from DICT protocol servers[edit]

  • A repository of source files for the DICT Development group's dict protocol server (with a few sample dictionaries) is available online.[2]

Xdxf Dictionaries Word

Dictionaries of English[edit]

  • Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856)
  • Easton's Bible Dictionary (1897)
  • Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary[citation needed]
  • The Devil's Dictionary (1911)
  • The U.S. Gazetteer[3] (1990 Census)
  • V.E.R.A.[4] – Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms which are used in the field of computing
  • Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Bilingual dictionaries[edit]

Xdxf Dictionary

  • Big English–Russian Dictionary
  • English–French dictionary
  • Freedict provides a collection of over 85 translating dictionaries, as XML source files with the data, mostly accompanied by databases generated from the XML files in the format used by DICT servers and clients. These are available from the Freedict project web site at.[5]
  • Lingvo English–Russian and Russian–English dictionaries are not free, but when purchased, can easily be converted into DICT format
  • Mueller's English–Russian dictionary
  • Slovak-English legal dictionary
  • Slovak-Italian legal dictionary

DICT servers[edit]

  • dictd (the standard server made by the DICT Development Group)
  • DictD++[6] – modern powerful server written in C++ with heavy usage of STL and boost
  • GNU Dico[7]
  • JDictd[8] – a Java-based DICT server implementation (abandoned)

DICT file format[edit]

The standard dictd server made by the DICT Development Group uses a special DICT file format, although other dictd servers (such as GNU Dico) may optionally use other file formats.

Dictionaries in the standard DICT file format are made up of two files, a .index file and a .dict file (or .dict.dz if compressed). These files are not usually written manually but are compiled by a program called dictfmt. For example, the Unix command:

will compile a Unicode-compatible DICT file called mydict, with heading My Dictionary, from mydict.txt which is in Jargon File format i.e.:

Once the dictionary file has been produced, installing it in the server is normally a matter of typing something like:

DICT clients[edit]

A dictd server can be used from Telnet. For example, to connect to the DICT server on localhost, on a Unix system one can normally type:

and then enter the command 'help' to see the available commands. Focus t25 workout utorrent. The standard dictd package also provides a 'dict' command for command-line use.

More sophisticated DICT clients include:

  • dictc (DICT Client),[9] client for Windows written in Delphi.
  • dict.org's own client (part of the dictd package)
  • dictem,[10] for the Emacstext editor
  • Dictionary, an application included with Mac OS X. Online dictionaries can be accessed by setting it as the helper for 'dict://' URI schemes.
  • GNOME Dictionary, comes with GNOME
  • GNU dico's own client (part of the dico package)
  • Kdict, comes with KDE
  • KTranslator, KDE dictionary
  • MaemoDict,[11] for the Nokia 770
  • MATE Dictionary (with accompanying applet)
  • Mozdev.org's 'dict',[12] a Firefox/Mozilla extension
  • OKDict,[13] an OpenOffice.org extension
  • OmniDictionary, for Mac OS X
  • StarDict[citation needed]
  • ZopeDictDB[14] for Zope[15] from Pentila[16]

There are also programs that read the DICT file format directly. For example, S60Dict,[17] is a dictionary program for Symbian Series 60 that uses DICT dictionaries. Additionally, some DICT clients, such as Fantasdic, are also capable of reading the DICT format directly.

DICT converters[edit]

  • Linguae Software[18] is able to convert from/to wb, dict (stardict and dictd) csv, xdxf, txt, ini and ling (native) file formats, Linux, Windows and Mac OS X.
  • XDXF[19]XML Dictionary Exchange Format converts between various dictionary formats using pluggable codec architecture.

dictzip[edit]

In order to efficiently store dictionary data, dictzip, an extension to the gzip compression format (also the name of the utility), can be used to compress a .dict file.Dictzip compresses file in chunks and stores the chunk index in the gzip file header, thus allowing random access to the data.

See also[edit]

References[edit]

  1. ^'dict.org'. Dict.org. Retrieved 16 October 2014.
  2. ^'dict.org: Resources'. Dict.org. Retrieved 16 October 2014.
  3. ^[1]
  4. ^'delorie.com'. Delorie.com. Retrieved 16 October 2014.
  5. ^'freedict.org'. FreeDict Project. Retrieved 28 October 2017.
  6. ^'ndl.kie.ua'. Ndl.kiev.ua. Retrieved 16 October 2014.
  7. ^'gnu.org'. Gnu.org. Retrieved 16 October 2014.
  8. ^Ho Ngoc Duc. 'informatik.uni-leipzig.de'. Informatik.uni-leipzig.de. Retrieved 16 October 2014.
  9. ^'DICT Client'. SourceForge. Archived from the original on 5 May 2013.
  10. ^'DictEm - Dictionary client for Emacs download'. SourceForge. Archived from the original on 1 October 2015.
  11. ^'garage: MaemoDict: Project Info'. Garage.maemo.org. Retrieved 2015-03-07.
  12. ^'mozdev.org - dict: index'. Dict.mozdev.org. Retrieved 2015-03-07.
  13. ^'OKDict'. Kilargo. Retrieved 2015-03-07.
  14. ^'Presentation'. Pentila. Archived from the original on 22 October 2008.
  15. ^'Start —'. Zope.org. Retrieved 2015-03-07.
  16. ^'Pentila Néro'. Pentila.com. Retrieved 2015-03-07.
  17. ^Giannakakis, Kostas. 'S60Dict'. Archived from the original on 11 June 2013.
  18. ^'Linguae, gestionnaire de dictionnaires'. Linguae.stalikez.info. Retrieved 2015-03-07.
  19. ^'soshial/xdxf_makedict · GitHub'. Github.com. Retrieved 2015-03-07.

External links[edit]

  • RFC 2229 – Definition of the DICT server protocol
  • dict.org DICT Development Group. A WWW interface to several freely available on-line dictionaries.
Retrieved from 'https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=DICT&oldid=986539242'

So, lately (a couple years ago actually) I have been extremely pissed with the lack of good English dictionaries on the net, and especially on eBook Readers.
See, I used to own an Onyx Boox a long time ago when eReaders were still a novelty. On my defunct Onyx, we could copy/paste dictionaries in StarDict format somewhere in there, and then we could use them while reading a book. Pretty awesome. StarDict dictionaries are lying around on the interwebz and it was easy to grab a few of them 'free of charge.' If you know I mean. Then we could also convert some old Babylon dictionaries to StarDict (that is before Babylon switched to a more locked down format).
Life was almost good. But then lately my Onyx broke the fuck down, and its battery became very erratic. So I bought a PocketBook Lux 3 (626) last week.
This new eReader is pretty awesome. No Android OS there sure, but seriously, this home made Linux OS is very well made. Better than the one from Onyx actually IMHO.
Well anyway, there is only ONE thing that was grinding my gears (and balls):
Even though we can put our own dictionaries in there, it only support ABBYY dictionaries. And these are much less common. So for once in my lifetime, I was ready to BUY a dictionary on their shit Polish platform or whatnot. But the issue is that the available dictionaries are simply SHIT. I mean, they don't have my lovely American Heritage 4th Edition. Therefore, yeah, they are SHIT.
Doesn't matter some Russian dudes made an XDXF to ABBYY converter. It's right there, hosted by me because.. just because.
So.. since I was really pissed lately (for a couple years) because of the lack of availability of various dictionaries -- whether for eReaders or even on the net in general -- I decided to hack something myself.
The idea is the following:
Creating the American Heritage in an XDXF format which can then be converted in any other format by the smart people on the interwebz.
Except that, instead of the AA 4th edition, I simply hacked dictionary.com and transformed it in an offline XDXF version.
Because, as I recall, dictionary.com was using the AA dictionary a long time ago. Then something changed and they moved to the Random House publishing company. But they were still providing the same dictionaries. And then dictionary.com became its own shit, and its own dictionary. So that's the one you will be downloading below.
So I managed to convert dictionary.com to an XDXF. But, I couldn't convert it to the ABBYY format using the Russian's dudes tool. I may work on that later.

Xdxf Dictionaries English


Here is the XDXF file (547,620 KB unpacked):

Xdxf

DICT converters[edit]

  • Linguae Software[18] is able to convert from/to wb, dict (stardict and dictd) csv, xdxf, txt, ini and ling (native) file formats, Linux, Windows and Mac OS X.
  • XDXF[19]XML Dictionary Exchange Format converts between various dictionary formats using pluggable codec architecture.

dictzip[edit]

In order to efficiently store dictionary data, dictzip, an extension to the gzip compression format (also the name of the utility), can be used to compress a .dict file.Dictzip compresses file in chunks and stores the chunk index in the gzip file header, thus allowing random access to the data.

See also[edit]

References[edit]

  1. ^'dict.org'. Dict.org. Retrieved 16 October 2014.
  2. ^'dict.org: Resources'. Dict.org. Retrieved 16 October 2014.
  3. ^[1]
  4. ^'delorie.com'. Delorie.com. Retrieved 16 October 2014.
  5. ^'freedict.org'. FreeDict Project. Retrieved 28 October 2017.
  6. ^'ndl.kie.ua'. Ndl.kiev.ua. Retrieved 16 October 2014.
  7. ^'gnu.org'. Gnu.org. Retrieved 16 October 2014.
  8. ^Ho Ngoc Duc. 'informatik.uni-leipzig.de'. Informatik.uni-leipzig.de. Retrieved 16 October 2014.
  9. ^'DICT Client'. SourceForge. Archived from the original on 5 May 2013.
  10. ^'DictEm - Dictionary client for Emacs download'. SourceForge. Archived from the original on 1 October 2015.
  11. ^'garage: MaemoDict: Project Info'. Garage.maemo.org. Retrieved 2015-03-07.
  12. ^'mozdev.org - dict: index'. Dict.mozdev.org. Retrieved 2015-03-07.
  13. ^'OKDict'. Kilargo. Retrieved 2015-03-07.
  14. ^'Presentation'. Pentila. Archived from the original on 22 October 2008.
  15. ^'Start —'. Zope.org. Retrieved 2015-03-07.
  16. ^'Pentila Néro'. Pentila.com. Retrieved 2015-03-07.
  17. ^Giannakakis, Kostas. 'S60Dict'. Archived from the original on 11 June 2013.
  18. ^'Linguae, gestionnaire de dictionnaires'. Linguae.stalikez.info. Retrieved 2015-03-07.
  19. ^'soshial/xdxf_makedict · GitHub'. Github.com. Retrieved 2015-03-07.

External links[edit]

  • RFC 2229 – Definition of the DICT server protocol
  • dict.org DICT Development Group. A WWW interface to several freely available on-line dictionaries.
Retrieved from 'https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=DICT&oldid=986539242'

So, lately (a couple years ago actually) I have been extremely pissed with the lack of good English dictionaries on the net, and especially on eBook Readers.
See, I used to own an Onyx Boox a long time ago when eReaders were still a novelty. On my defunct Onyx, we could copy/paste dictionaries in StarDict format somewhere in there, and then we could use them while reading a book. Pretty awesome. StarDict dictionaries are lying around on the interwebz and it was easy to grab a few of them 'free of charge.' If you know I mean. Then we could also convert some old Babylon dictionaries to StarDict (that is before Babylon switched to a more locked down format).
Life was almost good. But then lately my Onyx broke the fuck down, and its battery became very erratic. So I bought a PocketBook Lux 3 (626) last week.
This new eReader is pretty awesome. No Android OS there sure, but seriously, this home made Linux OS is very well made. Better than the one from Onyx actually IMHO.
Well anyway, there is only ONE thing that was grinding my gears (and balls):
Even though we can put our own dictionaries in there, it only support ABBYY dictionaries. And these are much less common. So for once in my lifetime, I was ready to BUY a dictionary on their shit Polish platform or whatnot. But the issue is that the available dictionaries are simply SHIT. I mean, they don't have my lovely American Heritage 4th Edition. Therefore, yeah, they are SHIT.
Doesn't matter some Russian dudes made an XDXF to ABBYY converter. It's right there, hosted by me because.. just because.
So.. since I was really pissed lately (for a couple years) because of the lack of availability of various dictionaries -- whether for eReaders or even on the net in general -- I decided to hack something myself.
The idea is the following:
Creating the American Heritage in an XDXF format which can then be converted in any other format by the smart people on the interwebz.
Except that, instead of the AA 4th edition, I simply hacked dictionary.com and transformed it in an offline XDXF version.
Because, as I recall, dictionary.com was using the AA dictionary a long time ago. Then something changed and they moved to the Random House publishing company. But they were still providing the same dictionaries. And then dictionary.com became its own shit, and its own dictionary. So that's the one you will be downloading below.
So I managed to convert dictionary.com to an XDXF. But, I couldn't convert it to the ABBYY format using the Russian's dudes tool. I may work on that later.

Xdxf Dictionaries English


Here is the XDXF file (547,620 KB unpacked):


For coders: go there and learn how to do what I did by yourself and get the source code of everything.
For free. So go and do it.

As for the legality of this whole thing, well, it's not. And I don't give a fuck.
So I advise you to download the stuff on this page even faster, and then to hide them somewhere very deep.
Now I need to convert that huge XDXF into an ABBY format.. gotta think about that.
Peace.




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