Dictionary Website

Make an online Dictionary that * users can update * with new or alternative definitions of words or phrases or simply with stories, comments, thoughts about the words or phrases.

Include contextual information which provides examples of each idea, and the generic of each. E.g. a "roadster" is a type of car / automobile / etc... and types of roadsters might include "runabout" or "two-seater"

The current version (not updateable) is now at:
http://golovchenko.org/cgi-bin/wnsearch?q=

(now updated to version 2.0 of the WordNet Database) based on
https://wordnet.princeton.edu/ the Princeton Wordnet database.

Also: Natural Language processing. Glossary, Quotes, De fun itions

Mark Twain: "I don't give a damn for a man that can only spell a word one way"

Allowing the user to double click any (non-linked) word to look it up.

HTML: <body ondblclick="lookup()"

Script:

function lookup() {
	if (document.getSelection) {
		t = document.getSelection();
		opennewdictwin(t);
		}
	else {
		t = document.selection.createRange();
		if(document.selection.type == 'Text' && t.text != '') {
			document.selection.empty();
			opennewdictwin(t.text);
			}
		}
	}

function opennewdictwin(text) {
	while (text.substr(text.length-1,1)==' ') 
		text=text.substr(0,text.length-1)
	while (text.substr(0,1)==' ') 
		text=text.substr(1)
	if (text > '') {
		document.location='http://golovchenko.org/cgi-bin/wnsearch?q='+escape(text);
		}
	}

Style:

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CURSOR: url('http://www.massmind.org/images/curs/dclick.cur')

file: /Techref/idea/website/dict.htm, 6KB, , updated: 2020/2/12 21:00, local time: 2024/10/31 17:16, owner: size111-hotmail-,

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Dictionary Website

Allowing the user to double click any (non-linked) word to look it up.

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