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Elena Piersanti
I'm looking for an offline dictionary for my smartphone - Windows Phone - for, preferably, English-Esperanto. I've seen a few in the store, but I'm not sure about the quality (as in, are the words actually correct)... Could anyone give advice on the best app?
Further, you can search for the dictionaries in the StarDict format on the internet. For example, I'm using a german-esperanto dictionary pair for both directions, which is quite good. I've also seen esperanto-russian, esperanto-swedish, esperanto-chinese pairs.
For what it's worth, I'll point out that most of the automated translation software out there regardless of the platform ranged from horrible to barely tolerable. I use Google Translate on Android from time to time. It has an offline Esperanto-English dictionary. It still needs work, but it's an acceptable mobile dictionary. However, if that's what you want, PReVo is a better choice. It's based on the Reta Vortaro, ReVo.
Now I've been using something simply called the "Esperanto dictionary". It isn't awesome, because there are no explanations. There is just a word - and this gives you another word in Esperanto. It is bidirectional, though, so that's good.
The gtongue offline dictionary offers a number of dictionaries that you have to look up yourself. Not all of them seem trustworthy (Engligh idioms, for example). There is an Esperanto-Russian dictionary among them, but I can't say much about the quality. I like that they offer the Devil's Dictionary as well. (So random!)
Unlike the previous one, Advance English Dictionary focuses on the dictionary part. It not only shows you the word definition but also, pronunciation both in the UK and US English, figures of speech, etymology, and even an image for word definitions. It also has an intra-word search feature, i.e, you can click on any word in the app and find a meaning for it.
If you are not a native English speaker then just an English dictionary might not suffice. For example, if you want to compliment someone in Hindi or give feedback to a French-speaking user, you must have another dictionary with a foreign language. The same goes for subject-specific dictionaries for certain professions that can come in handy on your office PC. Some of them are listed below.
I want a great offline dictionary that has etymologies and complete definitions. I can't find one! I used to use the OED CD-ROMs that were amazing! But now the OED only offers a subscription model online and it's annoying to get to -- I even have free access to it. (I tried to install via virtualbox but I can't figure it out.)
Proper Japanese dictionary for Windows?2012/12/18 00:58 I've been using a couple of Android apps on my phone to help translating english word to kanji/kana/romaji, and to look up kanji. I'm looking for something similar that I can run on Windows (regular computer, no tablet/phone/mobile). I also need it to run entirely offline.
On Android, I've been using these:
* JED: =com.umibouzu.jed
* Obenkyo: =com.Obenkyo
* KanjiRecognizer: =org.nick.kanjirecognizer
The last one is probably going to be a hard call on windows, since it requires drawing kanji, and that's hard to do with a mouse :)
But what I'm really looking for is something like the first mentioned app (JED). This is "just" a dictionary, but one that's loaded with information and has many ways to search.
Now to find something that runs on a computer...
I've searched google for a while, but all I could find is BS software and a windows8 app (which I cannot run). Lots of stuff that looks like adware and other BS, and maybe one or two that were way too expensive in comparison.
I already do have Human Japanese on my computer, but it doesn't have much of a dictionary.
Any help will be greatly appreciated.by thany
Re: Proper Japanese dictionary for Windows?2012/12/18 18:32 Thanks for the links, I'll check them out.
Jim Breen's page looks daunting O.o
As for ZKanji, how stupid of me that I didn't think of looking at SF.net, there's always some interesting/promising project going on. Thanks for finding that for me ;)by thanyrate this post as useful
Re: Proper Japanese dictionary for Windows?2012/12/19 00:12 Apologies if it's a repeat from some link on Jim Breen's page, but I have this page bookmarked for good reason:
It's even more fun with a touchpad!by Pirilamporate this post as useful
Re: Proper Japanese dictionary for Windows?2012/12/19 03:04 builds on the Edict files as kept by Jim Breen but as you asked for an offline dictionary, this might be of interest although I hven't used it myself:
If you use Firefox, Rikachan ( ) will be worth looking intoby Hoshisatorate this post as useful
Re: Proper Japanese dictionary for Windows?2012/12/19 20:22 Again, thanks :) I already found Tagaini in the mean time. It was on a blog posting somewhere with a whole bunch of windows software like this (nog Breen's page, tho). I forgot where I found it :/
The firefox and Chrome plugins might be helpful at some point, but not for now. I was actually looking for a dictionary where I can type in kanji/yomi/romaji/english and find their meaning or translation. That's a slightly different use case.
I think Tagaini pretty much covers my use case. Its interface is a little too bloated (not in a bad way tho) for my purposes, but it will do perfectly fine nonetheless. I just hope that whatever dictionary it is built on top of, is a good one :)by thanyrate this post as useful
Hi, I'm currently in China and the Netherlands. How can I use this functionality? (currently I'm using MS Edge legacy for PDF reading). When I re-installed this newest version, I still can't find dictionary function in the menu.
Adobe Document Cloud font pack and spelling dictionary pack enable you to display and interact with documents authored in languages other than those supported in your native Acrobat Reader. It is needed to correctly display a document when an author does not embed the appropriate font into the document. It is also needed when the author does embed the font, but the document reader wishes to interact with the content somehow, for example, by collaborating, commenting, or filling out forms.
On Mac OS X, its native dictionary application works well for me (especially the added Japanese dictionary in Leopard). I am looking for an equivalent English dictionary software on Windows. I have tried online solutions such as "define:Google" in Google and other websites but my internet connection doesn't allow prompt result, so an offline solution is better for me.
The first entry in our list is WordWeb. A well-known name in the dictionary world, this app has over 85,000+ meanings of words and phrases. WordWeb not only lets you find the meanings of words, you can also check out synonyms, related words, and parts of speech.
Alternately, you can open the dictionary itself to search for words, so no matter what you need to look up, you'll be able to get the definition in seconds. Best of all, if you're not certain of a word's spelling, you can flip though the dictionary like you would a paper dictionary.
The only SCRABBLE dictionary app approved by Hasbro, this version is based on the complete content from The Official SCRABBLE Players Dictionary, Fifth Edition enhanced with up to 15-letter words and an updated "Word Finder" tool to help you find words that can be formed from available letters.
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This article describes installing a local server (Kiwix-serve) and a dictionary (Wiktionary) in Windows, providing an offline local dictionary server that may be queried with a web browser or any software that has a Dictionary Lookup command that outputs an http URL. The specific case here is to use it for lookups from the Calibre e-book software when the Internet is not available for online lookups.
There are several ways to do this. The first thing I found when searching is to use WordWeb or TheSage. These are free Windows dictionary programs that allow you to look up words from within most Windows programs. But their dictionaries are rather limited, and insufficient if you frequently look up scientific, technical, archaic, or foreign words.
To query it with http URLs that Calibre can send, you need to run the kiwix server (called kiwix-serve.exe). You can start it from within Kiwix (menu Tools > Server), or you can run the server directly from a command line, and not run the Kiwix program at all, except for downloading, indexing, and setting up; or just using it as a stand-alone dictionary.
Now that you have Kiwix and an offline Wiktionary, you may want to add others. Given enough time and space, you can even install Wikipedia (52GB), Wikipedia for Schools, Wikipedia Simplified English, Wikipedia Medical, WikiBooks, WikiQuotes, WikiVersity, TED Talks, Project Gutenberg (40GB), and more. Some of those (Wikipedia and Gutenberg) will take like three days (each) to download, so you should do them manually, and use a download manager with auto-recovery. But most ZIMs are just a gig or so.
Perfect Dictionary should be your choice if you are looking for an offline dictionary that supports more than 50 languages. You can search for terms and find meanings in various languages, including English, French, German, Italian, Greek, Spanish, Persian, Irish, and more.
This dictionary suggests the words while you type them into the search bar. You can also pin the words as favorites and see them from the Favorite section. The app also plays the audio pronunciation of the words you are searching for.
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