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robinson · 06-22-2013, 05:17 PM

A follow up! I have several dictionary apps; one of my favorites is WordBook. it's based upon Princeton's Word Net, semantic network system, but with the addition of etymology for the words.

One of the thing I had forgotten is that, in WB, you can set up web links for external dictionary sources. I created one to The ARTFL Project at the University of Chicago, a wonderfully powerful, searchable set of databases/dictionaries. You can specify Webster's 1913 (and 1828) and then, from within WordBook, a single tap on an always available icon, fetches you the definition from the old classic unabridged! It displays The ARTFL's web page results for the word.

While that doesn't solve my off-line problem/preference, it does make the old unabridged dictionaries readily available through a dictionary app.

For those who might be interested, the web link you'd use in Word Book (or WB XL) is this:

http://machaut.uchicago.edu/?resourc...on&use1828=on]

I see that it doesn't display all the letters of the URL, so here they (just needs the http:// before it; it's all entered on one line).

machaut.uchicago.edu/?resource=Webster%27s&word=@&use1913=on&use1828=on

The elements include:

the university-- uchicago.edu
the resource-- Webster, with 1913 and 1828 on
and the key part
the placeholder, the at sign @, which represents any word that you are searching for in WordBook (word = @)

You only have to enter that URL once in the WordBook or WB XL settings, and then you're all set.

Even more fantastic, the web page from Chicago that appears within WordBook is fully clickable (!!)-- meaning that any word in the old dictionary definition can be tapped and Word Book will look it up in its built-in modern database.

Pretty spiffy!
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Now, I need to contact the WB folks and see if they'd be game to provide an option for downloading the 1913 dictionary to the i-device, directly accessible, offline from within WordBook!

06-22-2013, 05:17 PM	#9
robinson Zealot Posts: 142 Karma: 997293 Join Date: Jan 2003	WordBook to the rescue... A follow up! I have several dictionary apps; one of my favorites is WordBook. it's based upon Princeton's Word Net, semantic network system, but with the addition of etymology for the words. One of the thing I had forgotten is that, in WB, you can set up web links for external dictionary sources. I created one to The ARTFL Project at the University of Chicago, a wonderfully powerful, searchable set of databases/dictionaries. You can specify Webster's 1913 (and 1828) and then, from within WordBook, a single tap on an always available icon, fetches you the definition from the old classic unabridged! It displays The ARTFL's web page results for the word. While that doesn't solve my off-line problem/preference, it does make the old unabridged dictionaries readily available through a dictionary app. For those who might be interested, the web link you'd use in Word Book (or WB XL) is this: http://machaut.uchicago.edu/?resourc...on&use1828=on] I see that it doesn't display all the letters of the URL, so here they (just needs the http:// before it; it's all entered on one line). machaut.uchicago.edu/?resource=Webster%27s&word=@&use1913=on&use1828=on The elements include: the university-- uchicago.edu the resource-- Webster, with 1913 and 1828 on and the key part the placeholder, the at sign @, which represents any word that you are searching for in WordBook (word = @) You only have to enter that URL once in the WordBook or WB XL settings, and then you're all set. Even more fantastic, the web page from Chicago that appears within WordBook is fully clickable (!!)-- meaning that any word in the old dictionary definition can be tapped and Word Book will look it up in its built-in modern database. Pretty spiffy! --------------------- Now, I need to contact the WB folks and see if they'd be game to provide an option for downloading the 1913 dictionary to the i-device, directly accessible, offline from within WordBook! Last edited by robinson; 06-22-2013 at 05:22 PM.