In Linux, how does one query dictionaries?

Most people query Google when they encounter a word they are not familiar. Or they use a favorite online dictionary to provide answers. What if you have no network connection? Or do you have only one old Linux release and you do not have a GUI? Tag: Linux command if you need to search offline

Most people query Google when they encounter a word they are not familiar. Or they use a favorite online dictionary to provide answers. What if you have no network connection? Or do you have only one old Linux release and you do not have a GUI? If you need to search offline, here is a good method.

First, you need to set dictd locally. Dictd is a dictionary database server. It allows you to access online dictionaries. But wait, aren't we going to use it offline? This is why we want to install it locally. It has a command line client.

To install it on Ubuntu or Debian, enter:

 
 

  
  
___FCKpd___0nbsp;sudo apt-get install dictd 
 
 

This is simple. Now you need to install the dictionary. After each dictionary plug-in is installed, dictd automatically reloads its database. Let's install the English dictionary and the English dictionary.

Input:

 
 

  
  
___FCKpd___1nbsp;sudo apt-get install dict-gcide 
  
  
___FCKpd___1nbsp;sudo apt-get  install dict-moby-thesaurus 
 
 

If you want to query other languages that can be queried, you can enter:

 
 

  
  
___FCKpd___2nbsp;sudo apt-cache search “dict package” 
 
 

This will list the following:

 
 

  
  
dict-freedict-eng-ara - Dict package for English-Arabic Freedict dictionary 
  
  
dict-freedict-eng-cro - Dict package for English-Croatian Freedict dictionary 
  
  
dict-freedict-eng-cze - Dict package for English-Czech Freedict dictionary 
  
  
dict-freedict-eng-deu - Dict package for English-German Freedict dictionary 
  
  
dict-freedict-eng-fra - Dict package for English-French Freedict dictionary 
 
 

Now that you have successfully installed dictd, you can find the dictionary.

First, let's check whether the dictd service is running and what database is installed:

 
 

  
  
___FCKpd___4nbsp;dict -I 
 
 

Sample output:

 
 

  
  
dictd 1.12.0/rf on Linux 3.2.0-29-generic-pae 
  
  
On my_host: up 95.000, 2 forks (75.8/hour) 
  
  
Database      Headwords         Index          Data  Uncompressed 
  
  
gcide              203645       3859 kB         12 MB         38 MB 
  
  
moby-thesaurus      30263        528 kB         10 MB         28 MB 
 
 

To query a word, you can specify the dictionary to be queried. Let's query the English one Dictionary (gcid ):

 
 

  
  
___ FCKpd ___ 6 nbsp; dict-d gcide [the words you want to query]
 
 

If you do not use the-d parameter, dictd searches for all the installation dictionaries and returns matching results.