Thing: dictionary lookup
| Thing: dictionary lookup
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| developer | Frank Richter |
| Current version | 1.8.1 (September 6, 2016) |
| operating system | Unix-like ( Linux , Mac OS , ...) |
| category | dictionary |
| License | GPL ( Free Software ) |
| German speaking | Yes |
| www-user.tu-chemnitz.de/~fri/ding | |
Ding ( Di ctionary N ice G rep) is free dictionary search software . It is a Tk- based graphical frontend to command line programs such as a grep / egrep, aspell / ispell and fortune , with which it scans local text files , or DICT , with which it can also access data sources via the Internet via the DICT protocol. Ding already contains a German-English dictionary with around 340,000 word groups. The program has many configuration options, such as search settings, language (German or English) and colors. It has history and auxiliary functions. It can be set to automatically look up words that are highlighted in any application.
Ding was first released in February 1999.
See also
Web links
Descendants:
- MacDing (for Mac OS X)
- MobileDing for Java-enabled cell phones
- GNOME thing
- yaDing for Java-compatible operating systems
- DingMee for MeeGo Harmattan (Nokia N9 / N950) and Android
Dictionaries:
- Spanish – German dictionary for thing
- Norwegian – German dictionary for thing
- Portuguese-German dictionary compatible with Ding (can be exported from browser window to ding-compatible text file using copy-and-paste)
- dict.cc English-German dictionary compatible with Ding
- English-Finnish, -French, -Italian, -Spanish and many more dictionaries from the English Wiktionary
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- ↑ http://linux-user.de/ausgabe/2003/12/044-ding/
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