we need some data on line

[parag_paul]

hi All,
We are trying out our access algorithms ( retrieval ) for a dictionary
code, Now , we need some where on the net a list of 50K words and
there corresponding meanings. Can anybody please point me to some
place where I can get that. Or at least I can extract that data
I need the word and the meaning.
We need to test our individual algos
-Parag

[Richard Heathfield]

pa********@hotmail.com said:

hi All,
We are trying out our access algorithms ( retrieval ) for a dictionary
code, Now , we need some where on the net a list of 50K words and
there corresponding meanings. Can anybody please point me to some
place where I can get that. Or at least I can extract that data
I need the word and the meaning.
We need to test our individual algos

http://downloads.sourceforge.net/wordlist/scowl-6.zip contains various word
lists, ranging in counts from ~5,000 to ~190,000.

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[Bartc]

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pa********@hotmail.com said:

>hi All,
We are trying out our access algorithms ( retrieval ) for a dictionary
code, Now , we need some where on the net a list of 50K words and
there corresponding meanings. Can anybody please point me to some
place where I can get that. Or at least I can extract that data
I need the word and the meaning.
We need to test our individual algos

http://downloads.sourceforge.net/wordlist/scowl-6.zip contains various
word
lists, ranging in counts from ~5,000 to ~190,000.

These look like just words to me.

I'd be interested too in a list of words + meanings. (For free of course.)

--
Bart

[Richard Heathfield]

Bartc said:

>
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>pa********@hotmail.com said:

>>hi All,
We are trying out our access algorithms ( retrieval ) for a dictionary
code, Now , we need some where on the net a list of 50K words and
there corresponding meanings. Can anybody please point me to some
place where I can get that. Or at least I can extract that data
I need the word and the meaning.
We need to test our individual algos

http://downloads.sourceforge.net/wordlist/scowl-6.zip contains various
word
lists, ranging in counts from ~5,000 to ~190,000.

These look like just words to me.

Oops, my mistake. I read the article too quickly.

I'd be interested too in a list of words + meanings. (For free of
course.)

My pleasure:

C - average student grade.
C - Calorie.
C - Cape.
C - carbon.
C - Celsius.
C - century.
C - Conservative.
C - note in the musical scale.
C - programming language.
C - third letter of the modern English alphabet.

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Email: -http://www. +rjh@
Google users: <http://www.cpax.org.uk/prg/writings/googly.php>
"Usenet is a strange place" - dmr 29 July 1999

[Bartc]

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Bartc said:

>>
"Richard Heathfield" <rj*@see.sig.invalidwrote in message
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>>pa********@hotmail.com said:

hi All,
We are trying out our access algorithms ( retrieval ) for a dictionary
code, Now , we need some where on the net a list of 50K words and
there corresponding meanings. Can anybody please point me to some
place where I can get that. Or at least I can extract that data
I need the word and the meaning.
We need to test our individual algos

http://downloads.sourceforge.net/wordlist/scowl-6.zip contains various
word
lists, ranging in counts from ~5,000 to ~190,000.

These look like just words to me.

Oops, my mistake. I read the article too quickly.

>I'd be interested too in a list of words + meanings. (For free of
course.)

My pleasure:

C - average student grade.
C - Calorie.
C - Cape.
C - carbon.
C - Celsius.
C - century.
C - Conservative.
C - note in the musical scale.
C - programming language.
C - third letter of the modern English alphabet.

OK, thanks. That's a start.

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Bart