Next: Overview, Previous: Dico Manual, Up: Dico Manual [Contents][Index]
A dictionary server is a program that provides dictionary services to other computers using the client-server model. The dictionary services include listing the available databases, searching for a specific term in one or more databases, displaying the definitions found, etc.
GNU Dico is an implementation of dictionary server, which supports a
wide variety of database formats and is easily extensible using
several scripting languages. Apart from the server itself, the package
contains a console dictionary client program (see Dico — a client program.),
a web interface for the server (dicoweb
), and a window-based
browser for GCIDE dictionary (see GCIDER). A sister project
dicodock
provides containerized environment for running the server and web
interface for it.