thesaurus (and also dictionary)
Project description
Thesaurus-Rex
Thesaurus tool that fetches a word's homonyms, synonyms, and antonyms from Thesaurus.com. It's also a dictionary tool that fetches definitions from Webster. It fetches etymology information from etymonline.
Installation
- from PyPI:
pip install thesr
- from GitHub:
pip install "git+https://github.com/treatmesubj/Thesaurus_Rex"
Usage
python -m thesr.thesr [-h] [--word WORD] [--define] [--etymology] [--antonyms] [--verbose]
Common English phrases & idioms such as toungue-and-cheek
or dime-a-dozen
sometimes work as well
john@spectre:~
$ python -m thesr.thesr -w purport -v
_____ _
|_ _| |
| | | |__ ___ ___ __ _ _ _ _ __ _ _ ___
| | | '_ \ / _ \/ __|/ _` | | | | '__| | | / __|
| | | | | | __/\__ \ (_| | |_| | | | |_| \__ \
|_| |_| |_|\___||___/\__,_|\__,_|_| \__,_|___/ Rex
[purport!]
---Synonyms-------------------------------------------------------------------
{ noun: meaning, implication } == ['acceptation', 'aim', 'bearing', 'burden', 'connotation', 'core', 'design',
'drift', 'gist', 'heart']
{ verb: assert, mean } == ['imply', 'pose as', 'pretend', 'profess', 'allege', 'betoken', 'claim', 'convey',
'declare', 'denote']
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---Definitions-------------------------------------------------------------------
{ verb: to have the often specious appearance of being, intending, or claiming (something implied or inferred) }
{ verb: claim }
{ verb: intend, purpose }
{ noun: meaning conveyed, professed, or implied : import }
{ noun: substance, gist }
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---Etymology-------------------------------------------------------------------
purport (n.)
early 15c., "meaning, tenor, the surface or expressed meaning of a document, etc.; that which is conveyed or
expressed," from Anglo-French purport (late 13c.), Old French porport "contents, tenor," back-formation from
purporter "to contain, convey, carry; intend," from pur- (from Latin pro- "forth;" see pur-) + Old French porter "tocarry," from Latin portare "to carry" (from PIE root *per- (2) "to lead, pass over"). Meaning "that which is to be done or effected" is from 1650s.
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purport (v.)
1520s, "indicate, express, set forth, convey to the mind as the meaning or thing intended," from the noun in Englishand from Anglo-French purporter (c. 1300), from Old French purporter "to contain, convey, carry; intend," from pur- (from Latin pro- "forth;" see pur-) + Old French porter "to carry," from Latin portare "to carry" (from PIE root
*per- (2) "to lead, pass over"). Related: Purported; purporting.
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---Antonyms-------------------------------------------------------------------
{ noun: meaning, implication } =/= ['exterior', 'exteriority', 'insignificance', 'meaninglessness', 'outside',
'surface']
{ verb: assert, mean } =/= ['conceal', 'deny', 'disclaim', 'hide']
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