define 1.74

Terminal Dictionary

#Define

Define is a terminal dictionary script that uses wordnik for definitions. Supports audio pronunciation

Example:

>$define love

>LOVE:

>A deep, tender, ineffable feeling of affection and solicitude toward >a person, such as that arising from kinship, recognition of >attractive qualities, or a sense of underlying oneness.

#INSTALLATION

Installing define is easy:

Using pip:

>$ sudo pip install define

On Arch:

>$ yaourt -S define

Manual Installation:

>$ sudo python setup.py install ~~You will need an api key from wordnik, get one from developer.wordnik.com and edit the “key” variable inside the script~~ API key is now included in the script

Notes for Ubuntu 15.04 (may apply to other versions):

To enable pip you’ll need to add universe to your sources.

$ echo “deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ vivid universe” | sudo tee -a “/etc/apt/sources.list”

$ sudo apt-get update

$ sudo apt-get install python-pip

To make use of audio feature if you install with pip. You’ll need to install the gstreamer pacakge.

$ sudo apt-get install gstreamer1.0-tools

Using Audio

Audio can be used in define with the -a or –audio flag.

$ define –audio love

LOVE:

A deep, tender, ineffable feeling of affection and solicitude toward a person, such as that arising from kinship, recognition of attractive qualities, or a sense of underlying oneness.

Would you like to hear audio pronunciation? [Y/N] n

FLAGS

Define has the following flags:

-h/–help - Display help and exit.

-a/–audio - Audio pronunciation of keyword.

-t/–thesaurus - Thesaurus results for keyword.

-u/–urban - Search Urban Dictionary for results instead of Wordnik.

-l/–local - Search keywords using local dict and dictd dictionary (NOTE: This currently only works with the gcide dictionary, no other dictionary will work at the moment)