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authorJoe Robinson <joe@mumsnet.com>2014-09-19 14:34:59 +0100
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bladictionary2 can get definitions from a number of sources
-WordNet - Dictionary of English words created by Princeton University
-Website - http://wordnet.princeton.edu/
-SQL Database of words from http://wnsql.sourceforge.net/
+WordNet - Dictionary of English words created by Princeton University
+Website - http://wordnet.princeton.edu/
+SQL Database of words from http://wnsql.sourceforge.net/
License: http://wordnet.princeton.edu/wordnet/license/
+A script is provided to convert the WordNet MySQL database into a
+simpler, faster format in sqlite3. Alternatively this can be downloaded
+from http://www.blaupload.co.uk/wordnet.db
-Urban Dictionary - Online dictionary of slang and colloqual words
-Website - http://www.urbandictionary.com/
-Unofficial API - http://urbanscraper.herokuapp.com/
+Urban Dictionary - Online dictionary of slang and colloqual words
+Website - http://www.urbandictionary.com/
+Unofficial API - http://urbanscraper.herokuapp.com/
Note: Urban Dictionary currently provides no API for accessing its
content programatically, and the urbanscraper API uses screen scraping
to obtain data. This is not explicitly forbidden by Urban Dictionary's
terms of service at this time, but is also not officially supported.
-Oxford English Dictionary - English Dictionary published by Oxford University Press
-Source - https://github.com/sujithps/Dictionary/
+Oxford English Dictionary - English Dictionary published by Oxford University Press
+Source - https://github.com/sujithps/Dictionary/
Note: No license or copyright information was given with the copy of OED
used here and is provided as is, please contact me if it violates
either.