A long sought program: StarDict etc
A long sought program: StarDict - 6:18 PM 8/15/2006
StarDict is a free (as in beer)/open source/libre/GPL offline dictionary written in GTK. It is only a frontend, so depending on the installed data it can be an English to English dictionary, Japanese to English dictionary, or anything else.
Everything needed to get StarDict up and running on Windows is on its website, http://stardict.sourceforge.net (it is actually cross-platform so a Linux version is also available). First, download install the GTK+ runtime environment linked from the front page. After that download and install the Windows version of StarDict. The last step is to download at least one dictionary from StarDict’s dictionary page.
I downloaded the tarballs of “Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English”, “Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary”, and “dictd_www.dict.org_gcide”. To install the dictionaries, just extract them to “dic” folder inside the StarDict installation folder (e.g. “C:\Program Files\StarDict\dic”).
Some screenshots:
The dictionary can search for “dictionary”. I just had to confirm it.
StarDict supports search using ? and *.
StarDict can do Fuzzy search (start the search term with “/”). This will search for a “closest” word (whatever that means). Very useful if we aren’t sure of the correct spelling for a word.
Because the data of “Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary” is available for StarDict, there is no reason to reinstall “Oxford Advanced Genie”, my previous dictionary program.
Word dump: random - 6:16 PM 8/15/2006
Here are 30 words I’ve gathered from various sources:
| Kanji | Kana | English |
|---|---|---|
| 明日 | あす | tomorrow |
| 父さん | とうさん | father |
| とうさん | (corporate) bankruptcy | |
| 大家さん | おおやさん | landlord, landlady |
| あい | indigo | |
| えにし | fate | |
| 出合う | であう | to come across |
| 出合い | であい | an encounter |
| メモリ | memory | |
| 一人 | いちにん | one person |
| ロード | road | |
| ハッピー | happy | |
| エンド | end | |
| ストーリ | story | |
| セクシー | sexy | |
| アイランド | island | |
| ひとり | alone | |
| 切り | きり | limits |
| おばあちゃん | grandma | |
| あまい | naïve | |
| きず | wound | |
| だれか | someone | |
| かまう | to care about | |
| とつげき | assault | |
| まつり | festival | |
| ぴったり | exactly | |
| しゃべる | to talk | |
| ついに | finally | |
| けってい | decision | |
| さいしゅう | last |
Now my word count is 1343.
September 5th, 2006 at 9:11 am
[...] A feature in Oxford Advanced Genie not found in Stardict (a free/open source dictionary) is the sound. With Oxford Advanced Genie, we can hear how every word is pronounced. For some words, both the English and American pronunciation are available. [...]
February 6th, 2007 at 2:37 pm
Numpang nimbrung nih Mas…
Daku barusan selesai install dan berhasil dengan sukses. Dapet dictionary dari mas fuad.
Biar pun minim fasilitas, tapi overall kan lumayan. Atau mau ikut mengembangkan dengan menjadi penerjemah (salah satunya)?
February 6th, 2007 at 5:43 pm
Selamat
Minim fasilitas? Wong ada regex sama fuzzy search kok… Program kamus lain yang pernah kupakai mana ada yang bisa begitu…
March 25th, 2007 at 10:06 am
[...] but enough as a pointer to get more information elsewhere. If I’m not online, my next stop is Stardict, which gives more detail such as “a climbing plant with purple or white flowers”. At [...]
June 6th, 2008 at 11:06 am
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June 27th, 2008 at 1:12 pm
[...] The data is from the Indonesian dictionary for OpenOffice.org, kindly provided by Benitius Brevoort. I searched for it a long time ago for my program WordFinder which is used to find suitable words for mnemonics. For English words, I could just use the regex in Stardict. [...]