dictionary question

[Jim Ault]

On 3/27/07 8:28 AM, "Mark Swindell" <mswindel at santacruz.k12.ca.us> wrote:

> Just looking into this, but I'm wondering about architecting a small
> stack that would allow me to input a list of words into a field, and
> then click a button which would return the entire list of words with
> their dictionary definitions.  Ideally these would be drawn from a
> source such as Merriam-Websters student dictionary (online http://
> wordcentral.com/ ), or another student dictionary on the HD....
> 
> How difficult would this be to do in Rev, and what might be an
> efficient way to pull it off?  Or does such a tool already exist
> somewhere?
Basically you get a URL that includes the word in the search string.
Do a few site searches and copy the url that is in the browser, then build
the same string in a repeat loop for each word.

Pretty simple once you get the hang of it.

Jim Ault
Las Vegas