Open-source Free English Dictionary

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1- List Of English Words (479k Words)

This repo offers a text file containing 479k English words for all your dictionary/word-based projects e.g: auto-completion / autosuggestion. The data comes in JSON format, and in text format. It also offers an example as in Python script.

GitHub - dwyl/english-words: :memo: A text file containing 479k English words for all your dictionary/word-based projects e.g: auto-completion / autosuggestion

:memo: A text file containing 479k English words for all your dictionary/word-based projects e.g: auto-completion / autosuggestion - GitHub - dwyl/english-words: :memo: A text file containing 479k…

GitHubdwyl

2- Open-Source English Dictionary (176,023 definitions)

An open source English language dictionary with 176,023 definitions.

This is based on the Source Forge Project: MySQL English Dictionary , which in turn in based on the The Online Plain Text English Dictionary (OPTED) dictionary.

OPTED is a public domain English word list dictionary, based on the public domain portion of "The Project Gutenberg e-text of Webster's Unabridged Dictionary" which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster's Unabridged Dictionary.

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3- List of the Most Common English Words

The Unix dictionary contains far too many ridiculous words that even Google has trouble explaining, such as zuurveldt, cholecystenterorrhaphy and nonly:

$ cat /usr/share/dict/words | wc -l
235886

GitHub - dolph/dictionary: A list of the most popular English words.

A list of the most popular English words. Contribute to dolph/dictionary development by creating an account on GitHub.

GitHubdolph

4- wiktionary-dict

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This project collects bilingual Wiktionary dictionaries in DSL-format, based on the work of Wiktionary User:Matthias_Buchmeier.

The scripts used to convert these dictionaries can be found here, and the original source files and other information can be found on the project homepage on Wiktionary.

GitHub - open-dsl-dict/wiktionary-dict: Offline bilingual dictionaries made using data from Wiktionary

Offline bilingual dictionaries made using data from Wiktionary - GitHub - open-dsl-dict/wiktionary-dict: Offline bilingual dictionaries made using data from Wiktionary

GitHubopen-dsl-dict

5- ipa-dict - Monolingual word lists with pronunciation information in IPA

This project aims to provide a series of dictionaries consisting of wordlists with accompanying phonemic pronunciation information in International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) transcription for as many words as possible in as many languages / dialects / variants as possible.

Supported formats include: Raw data, JSON, CSV, XML and several other formats.

The included languages are: Arabic, German, Esperanto, Finish, Japanese, Khmer, Korea, Dutch, French, Persian, Romanian, Swedish, and many more.

GitHub - open-dict-data/ipa-dict: Monolingual wordlists with pronunciation information in IPA

Monolingual wordlists with pronunciation information in IPA - GitHub - open-dict-data/ipa-dict: Monolingual wordlists with pronunciation information in IPA

GitHubopen-dict-data

6- Syng: Chinese To English

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Syng is a free, cross-platform, open-source, Chinese-To-English and English-To-Chinese dictionary. Syng is your study assistant to help you learn Chinese no matter where you are in your journey.

Syng v2 is now in beta. Please be patient as features get ported over from v1. In addition to a new interface, Syng v2 includes numerous under-the-hood enhancements on top of v1 that enable the possibility of more advanced features.

GitHub - sotch-pr35mac/syng: A free, open source, cross-platform, Chinese-To-English dictionary for desktops.

A free, open source, cross-platform, Chinese-To-English dictionary for desktops. - GitHub - sotch-pr35mac/syng: A free, open source, cross-platform, Chinese-To-English dictionary for desktops.

GitHubsotch-pr35mac

7- Simple Dictionary

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An offline English to English dictionary with spell suggestions using the open source dictionary data. It is built on top of Java, and comes with HTML interface.

GitHub - subhashnottath/dictionary: An offline English to English dictionary with spell suggestions using the open source dictionary data

An offline English to English dictionary with spell suggestions using the open source dictionary data - GitHub - subhashnottath/dictionary: An offline English to English dictionary with spell sugge…

GitHubsubhashnottath

8- Saladict (Google Chrome, and Mozilla Firefox)

Saladict is an all-in-one professional pop-up dictionary and page translator. It supports mixed use of multiple search modes.

Saladict

Saladict is an all-in-one professional pop-up dictionary and page translator which supports multiple search modes, page translations, new word notebook and PDF selection searching.

Saladict

9- FreeDict

The FreeDict project strives to be the most comprehensive source of truly free bilingual dictionaries. They are not just free of charge, but they give you the right to study, change and modify them, as long as you guarantee others these freedoms, too. FreeDict nowadays provides over 140 dictionaries in about 45 languages and thanks to its members, grows continuously.

FreeDict is avaiable to download for Windows, and GNU/ Linux.

Home — FreeDict

10- Dictionary API

A Free headless Dictionary API for developers.  The API usage has been ramping up rapidly, making it difficult for me to keep the server running due to increased AWS costs.

GitHub - meetDeveloper/freeDictionaryAPI: There was no free Dictionary API on the web when I wanted one for my friend, so I created one.

There was no free Dictionary API on the web when I wanted one for my friend, so I created one. - GitHub - meetDeveloper/freeDictionaryAPI: There was no free Dictionary API on the web when I wanted…

GitHubmeetDeveloper

11- English Dictionary (Android)

An open-source free English dictionary for Android, written in Java. It features word search, TextToSpeech option, SQLite database backend, and Search History.

GitHub - ardakazanci/English-Dictionary: English Dictionary Android Mobile App

English Dictionary Android Mobile App. Contribute to ardakazanci/English-Dictionary development by creating an account on GitHub.

GitHubardakazanci

12- En Dictionary

A Web App Dictionary For Getting Word's Meaning / Examples / Pronounciation Using cam-dict. It is an open-source free project that is released under the MIT license.

GitHub - hadiazt/En-Dictionary: English To English Word Meaning and etc. Dictionary

English To English Word Meaning and etc. Dictionary - GitHub - hadiazt/En-Dictionary: English To English Word Meaning and etc. Dictionary

GitHubhadiazt

13- English Idioms for Italian and Spanish People

A collection of the most common English idioms with their related Italian and Spanish translation.

GitHub - tsumarios/English-Idioms: A collection of the most common English idioms with their related Italian and Spanish translation.

A collection of the most common English idioms with their related Italian and Spanish translation. - GitHub - tsumarios/English-Idioms: A collection of the most common English idioms with their rel…

GitHubtsumarios

14- Russian English dictionary

A dynamic web application of English-Russian dictionary with accessibility. Built with React and Skyeng API. I built this project to improve my understanding of React and Redux.

GitHub - domoratskii/english-dictionary: A dynamic web application of English-Russian dictionary with accessibility. Built with React and Skyeng API

A dynamic web application of English-Russian dictionary with accessibility. Built with React and Skyeng API - GitHub - domoratskii/english-dictionary: A dynamic web application of English-Russian d…

GitHubdomoratskii

15- Mercury (iOS)

Mercury is a free iOS English dictionary.

GitHub - SkullMag/Mercury: Mercury is a free iOS English dictionary

Mercury is a free iOS English dictionary. Contribute to SkullMag/Mercury development by creating an account on GitHub.

GitHubSkullMag

16- Dictionary (Vietnamese and Japanese)

This is a responsive single-page-app dictionary using Angular and Bootstrap. Currently, it supports English-Vietnamese dictionary and going to support Japanese-Vietnamese dictionary.

GitHub - hoaftq/Dictionary: A dictionary web app with data automatically collected from other pages

A dictionary web app with data automatically collected from other pages - GitHub - hoaftq/Dictionary: A dictionary web app with data automatically collected from other pages

GitHubhoaftq

17- Acron (Qt)

Acorn is a lightweight and responsive English Dictionary application using the cross-platform Qt toolkit for its interface.

GitHub - jayzsh/Acorn: Acorn is a lightweight and responsive English dictionary app using Princeton’s WordNet lexical database and the Qt5 toolkit

Acorn is a lightweight and responsive English dictionary app using Princeton's WordNet lexical database and the Qt5 toolkit - GitHub - jayzsh/Acorn: Acorn is a lightweight and responsive Engli…

GitHubjayzsh

18- Web English dictionary app

English dictionary app using HTML, CSS, and JS.

GitHub - Koshyar-r/dictionary-app: English dictionary app using HTML, CSS and JS.

English dictionary app using HTML, CSS and JS. Contribute to Koshyar-r/dictionary-app development by creating an account on GitHub.

GitHubKoshyar-r

19- Open-source Dictionary for Firefox

GitHub - JonasHogman/firefox-dictionary: WebExtension for Firefox that provides Google Dictionary for Chrome-like functionality (except prettier and with more bugs).

WebExtension for Firefox that provides Google Dictionary for Chrome-like functionality (except prettier and with more bugs). - GitHub - JonasHogman/firefox-dictionary: WebExtension for Firefox that…

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• UKACD (UK Advanced Cryptics Dictionary), about 250000 words, is good for crossword setting and solving
• YAWL (Yet Another Word List), about 250000 words, is a copyright-free American list popular among Unix users
• Moby, about 600000 words, is part of Project Gutenberg
• ABLE (Alternate British LExicon), 200000 words, is a UK-oriented list designed for word puzzles
• SOWPODS, about 270000 words, is a standard word list used for Scrabble and other word games all over the world
• TWL, about 180000 words, is a standard word list used for Scrabble and other word games in the United States and elsewhere
• PDL, a public domain word list originally called PUBLIC.DICT.LARGE containing about 37000 reasonably common words with a slight academic bias
• BNC, a word list derived from the British National Corpus containing about 470000 strings, the great majority of which are words
• Broda, a list of about 390000 words aimed at US puzzlers

Create permanent BASH aliases in Linux

When creating an alias, for example
alias la="ls -la"
it exists until the terminal session is killed. When starting a new terminal window, the alias does not exist any more. The question is, how to create a "permanent" alias, one that exists in every terminal session?
Such aliases can be stored in the ~/.bash_aliases file.
 

That file is loaded by ~/.bashrc. The following lines need to be uncommented or added to enable the use of the ~/.bash_aliases file:

if [ -f ~/.bash_aliases ]; then
    . ~/.bash_aliases
fi
 

The aliased command will be available on any new terminal. To have the aliased command on any existing terminal one need to source ~/.bashrc from that terminal:
source ~/.bashrc
A one liner would be:
echo "alias la='ls-la'" >> ~/.bash_aliases && source ~/.bash_aliases

 

Another option would be to add the alias line into ~/.bashrc or into ~/.profile / ~/.bash_profile for remote logins. If the command should be executed for all users, put it into /etc/bash.bashrc.

 

The function below can be added to the .bashrc file.

function permalias () 
{ 
  alias "$*";
  echo alias "$*" >> ~/.bash_aliases
}

Then open a new terminal or run source ~/.bashrc in your current terminal. You can now create permanent aliases by using the permalias command, for example permalias cls=clear.

~/.bashrc is run every time you open a new terminal, whereas ~/.bash_profile is not.

In order to update the file, run . ~/.bashrc or source ~/.bashrc

Function from askubuntu.com:

# -----------------------------------
#  Create a new permanent bash alias
#
#  @param $1 - NAME
#  @param $2 - DEFINITION
# -----------------------------------
new-alias () { 
  if [ -z "$1" ]; then
    echo "alias name:" && read NAME
  else
    NAME=$1
  fi

  if alias $NAME 2 > /dev/null > /dev/null; then
    echo "alias $NAME already exists - continue [y/n]?" && read YN
    case $YN in
      [Yy]* ) echo "okay, let's proceed.";;
      [Nn]* ) return;;
      * ) echo "invalid response." && return;;
    esac
  fi

  if [ -z "$2" ]; then
    echo "alias definition:" && read DEFINITION
  else
    DEFINITION="$2"
  fi

  if [ -f ~/.bash_aliases ]; then
    echo "alias $NAME=\"$DEFINITION\"" >> ~/.bash_aliases
  else
    echo "alias $NAME=\"$DEFINITION\"" >> ~/.bashrc
  fi

  alias $NAME="$DEFINITION"
}

Frequently Used Linux Commands

 

File Viewing
Command	Function
cat	Display the contents of file
less	Page through files
head	show the top portion of a file
more	display screenfuls of a file
tail	display bottom portion of a file
nl	count the number of lines in a file
wc	count the number of lines, words and characters in a file
od	View a binary file
tee	display output on stdout and write it to a file simultaneously

File Management
Command	Function
ls	display file attributes
stat	display file attributes
wc	count the number of lines, words and characters in a file
file	identify file types
touch	set the time stamp of a file or directory
chgrp	change the group of a file
chmod	change the permissions (mode) of a file
chown	change the owner of a file
chattr	change advanced file attributes
lsattr	display advanced file attributes

File Manipulation
Command	Function
awk	pattern-matching, programming language
csplit	split a file
cut	display columns of a file
paste	append columns in a file
dircmp	compare two directories
find	find files and directories
perl	scripting language
sed	Stream Editor
sort	sort a file
tr	translate chracters in a file
uniq	find unique or repeated lines in a file
xargs	process multiple arguements

File Editing
Command	Function
vi	text editor
emacs	text editor
sed	Stream Editor

Locate Files
Command	Function
find	find files and directories
which	locate commands within your search path
whereis	locate standard files

File Compression and Archiving
Command	Function
gzip	compress a file using GNU Zip
gunzip	uncompress a file using GNU Zip
compress	compress a file using UNIX compress
uncompress	uncompress a file using UNIX compress
bzip2	compress a file using block-sorting file compressor
bunzip2	uncompress a file using block-sorting file compressor
zip	compress a file using Windows/DOS zip
unzip	uncompress a file using Windows/DOS zip
tar	read/write (tape) archives
cpio	copy files to and from archives
dump	dump a disk to tape
restore	restore a dump
mt	tape control programm

File Comparison
Command	Function
diff	find differences in two files
cmp	compare two files
comm	compare sorted files
md5sum	compute the MD5 checksum of a file
sum	compute the checksum of a file

Disks and File Systems
Command	Function
df	display free space
du	display disk usage
mount	mount a filesystem
fsck	check aand repair a filesystem
sync	Flush disk caches

Printing
Command	Function
lpr	print files
lpq	view the print queue
lprm	Remove print jobs
lpc	line printer control program

Process Management
Command	Function
ps	list processes
w	list users’ processes
uptime	view the system load, amount of time it has been running, etc.
top	monitor processes
free	display free memory
kill	send signals to processes
killall	kill processes by name
nice	set a processes nice value
renice	set the nice value of a running process.
at	run a job at a specific time
crontab	schedule repeated jobs
batch	run a job as the system load premits
watch	run a programm at specific intervals
sleep	wiat for a specified interval of time

Host Information
Command	Function
uname	Print system information
hostname	Print the system’s hostname
ifconfig	Display or set network interface configuration
host	lookup DNS information
nslookup	lookup DNS information (deprecated)
whois	Lookup domain registrants
ping	Test reachability of a host
traceroute	Display network path to a host

Character based web-browser

Networking Tools
Command	Function
ssh	Secure remote access
telnet	Log into remote hosts
scp	Securely copy files between hosts
ftp	Copy files between hosts
wget	Recursively download files from a remote host
lynx

File and Directory Basics
Command	Function
cd	change directory
cp	copy files
file	determine a file’s contents
ls	list files or directories
ln	make a link to a file
mkdir	make a directory
mv	move (rename) a file
rm	remove a file
rmdir	remove a directory

http://www.linux-tutorial.info

Soffice from Command Line - MAN Pages

 

Name

libreoffice - LibreOffice office suite

SYNOPSIS

libreoffice [--accept=accept-string] [--base] [--calc] [--convert-to output_file_extension[:output_filter_name] [--outdir output_dir] file]... [--display display] [--draw] [--global] [--headless] [--help|-h|-?] [--impress] [--invisible] [--infilter="<filter>"] [--math] [--minimized] [-n file]... [--nodefault] [--nolockcheck] [--nologo] [--norestore] [-o file]... [-p file...] [--print-to-file [--printer-name printer_name] [--outdir output_dir] file]... [--pt printername file...] [--show Impress file]... [--unaccept=accept-string] [--terminate_after_init] [--view file]... [--web] [--writer] [file...]
lobase
localc
lodraw
lofromtemplate
loimpress
lomath
loweb
lowriter

DESCRIPTION

LibreOffice (LO for short) is a multi-platform office productivity suite. It was derived from OpenOffice.org 3.3 Beta on September 28, 2010.

libreoffice is a shell script that sets up the environment and passes the command line arguments to the soffice.bin binary.

Alternatively, the following helper scripts start the respective module:

sbase, scalc, sdraw, simpress, smath, sofficerc, swriter

OPTIONS

--accept=accept-string

Specify a UNO connect-string to create a UNO acceptor through which other programs can connect to access the API.

--base

Starts the wizard for a new Base document.

--calc

Starts with a new Calc document.

--convert-to output_file_extension[:output_filter_name] [--outdir output_dir] file...

Batch converts files. If --outdir is not specified then the current working directory is used as the output directory for the converted files. It implies --headless.

Examples:

--convert-to pdf *.doc

Converts all .doc files to PDFs.

--convert-to pdf:writer_pdf_Export --outdir /home/user *.doc

Converts all .doc files to PDFs using the settings in the Writer PDF export dialog and saving them in /home/user.

--display display

This option specifies the X server to use; see X(7)

--draw

Starts with a new Draw document.

--global

Starts with a new Global document.

--headless

Starts in "headless mode", which allows using the application without user a interface.

This special mode can be used when the application is controlled by external clients via the API.

It implies --invisible and strictly ignores any GUI environment. --quickstart does not work with this parameter.

--help|-h|-?

Lists LibreOffice command line parameters.

--impress

Starts with a new Impress document.

--invisible

Starts in invisible mode.

Neither the start-up logo nor the initial program window will be visible. LO can be controlled and documents and dialogs can be opened via the API.

When started with this parameter, it can only be quit using the taskmanager (Windows) or the kill command (UNIX based systems).

--quickstart does not work with this parameter.

--infilter="<filter>"

Force an input filter type if possible. For example --infilter="Calc Office Open XML" only

--math

Starts with a new Math document.

--minimized

Keeps the splash screen minimized.

-n template...

Creates the a new document from the given templates.

--nodefault

Starts LO without creating a new document. The next time you start LO, the welcome screen is shown.

It's used together with --nologo by quick starters. Note that --quickstart has no longer been supported since OpenOffice.org 2.0.0.

--nolockcheck

Disables the check for remote instances using the installation.

--nologo

Disables the splash screen at program start.

--norestore

Disables restart and file recovery after a system crash. It is possible that LO will try to restore a file it keeps crashing on, if that happens --norestore is the only way to start LO.

--nosplash

Disables the splash screen at program start.

-o file...

Opens the given files for editing, even templates.

Without -o a template file would create a new document derived from that template.

-p file...

Prints the given files to the default printer and ends. The splash screen does not appear.

If the file name contains spaces, then it must be enclosed in quotation marks.

--print-to-file [--printer-name printer_name] [--outdir output_dir] file...

Batch print files to file. If --printer-name is not specified the default printer is used. If --outdir is not specified then the current working directory is used as the output directory for the converted files.

Examples:

--print-to-file *.doc

Prints all .doc files to the current working directory using the default printer.

--print-to-file --printer-name nasty_lowres_printer --outdir /home/user *.doc

Prints all .doc files to /home/user directory using the nasty_lowres_printer.

--pt printername file...

Prints the given files to the printer printername and ends. The splash screen does not appear.

If a file name contains spaces, then it must be enclosed in quotation marks.

--quickstart --quickstart=no

Starts LO with it's quick starter. --quickstart disable the quick starter.

Does not work with --invisible or --headless.

--show Impress file...

Opens the given Impress files, starts the presentation and quits after they have finished.

--unaccept=accept-string

Closes an acceptor that was created with --accept option.

Use --unaccept=all to close all open acceptors.

--terminate_after_init

Starts LO and terminates after it registers some UNO services. Doesn't show the splash during startup.

--view file...

Opens the given files read-only creating a temporary copy of them at $TMPDIR.

--web

Starts with a new HTML document.

--writer

Starts with a new Writer document.