{"id":2682,"date":"2003-04-16T18:46:52","date_gmt":"2003-04-16T18:46:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/?p=2682"},"modified":"2003-04-16T18:46:52","modified_gmt":"2003-04-16T18:46:52","slug":"dictarycom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/?p=2682","title":{"rendered":"Dictary.com"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I saw this site called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dictary.net\/\">Dictary<\/a> mentioned over on <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/red\/\">another blog<\/a> and had to make mention of it because it looks pretty cool.  What is a Dictary?<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Probably the best and simplest answer is, a dictary is a search engine whose corpus is composed of literary texts instead of webpages. I don&#8217;t know why this description never occurred to me while I was developing this thing.<\/p>\n<p>Another good answer is: a dictary is like a good dictionary, but without the definitions, and with access to a great many quotations which can be selected based on various criteria&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Another pretty decent answer is: a dictary is like a concordance, but encompassing many texts and authors instead of just one. The ideal dictary contains everything that has ever been written &#8211; this one isn&#8217;t quite there yet! [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.dictary.net\/what.html\">What&#8217;s a Dictary?<\/a>]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Let&#8217;s see if I can explain it some.  It searches texts for words you input.  But you can say things like, show me where I can find these words within 4 lines of each other. Heck, even better, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dictary.net\/\">go there<\/a> and check it out.  It makes a bit more sense when you look at it and try it out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I saw this site called Dictary mentioned over on another blog and had to make mention of it because it looks pretty cool. What is a Dictary? Probably the best and simplest answer is, a dictary is a search engine whose corpus is composed of literary texts instead of webpages. I don&#8217;t know why this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2682","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2682","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2682"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2682\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}