#ITByte: #Business #Glossary vs #Data #Dictionary vs Data #Catalog.

Definition and comparison of some of the commonly used terms in data #Modelling and management.

https://knowledgezone.co.in/posts/Business-Glossary-vs-Data-Dictionary-vs-Data-Catalog-6278c1e6ab2fa5827bbb3008

Compression Dictionary Transport

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Guides/Compression_dictionary_transport

A Dictionary of the Language of Myst's D'ni

http://www.eldalamberon.com/dni_dict.htm

“Slop” Added to Cambridge #Dictionary, as #AI Redefines #Language https://www.infodocket.com/2025/06/24/dictionaries-slop-added-to-cambridge-dictionary-as-ai-redefines-language/ #technology #dictionaries

#dictionary : a book containing the words of a language, arranged alphabetically, with explanations of their meanings

- French: dictionnaire

- German: das Wörterbuch

- Italian: dizionario

- Portuguese: dicionário

- Spanish: diccionario

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Thank you so much for being a member of our community!

Now that #swad 0.7 is released, it's time to prepare a new release of #poser, my own lib supporting #services on #POSIX systems, following a #reactor with #threadpool design.

During development of swad, I moved poser from using strictly only POSIX APIs (with the scalability limits of e.g. #select) to auto-detected support for #kqueue, #epoll, #eventports, #signalfd and #timerfd (so now it could, in theory(!), "compete" with e.g. libevent). I also fixed quite some hidden bugs, and added more base functionality, like a #dictionary using nested hashtables internally, or #async tasks mimicking the async/await pattern known from e.g, #csharp. I also deprecated two features, the periodic and global "service tick" (superseded by individual timers) and the "resolve hosts" property of a "connection" (superseded by a separate resolve class).

I'll have to decide on a few things, e.g. whether I'll remove the deprecated stuff immediately and bump the major version of the "posercore" lib. I guess I'll do just that. I'd also like to add all the web-specific stuff (http 1.0/1.1 server) that's currently part of the swad code as a "poserweb" lib. This would get a major version of 0, indicating a generally unstable API/ABI as of now....

And then, I'd have to decide where certain utility classes belong to. The rate limiter is probably useful for things other than web, so it should probably go to core. What about url encoding/decoding, for example?

Stay tuned, something will come here, maybe helping you to write a nice service in plain #C :

https://github.com/Zirias/poser

#FTW. The #Sanskrit word "tumula" (तुमुल) can mean "tumult" in #English.

Merriam-Webster mentions the possibility of tumult deriving from Sanskrit but only tentatively. Wiktionary and a few others I have access to make no mention.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/tumult

TIL about the word "calyx" from Robin Wall Kimmerer in her book "The Serviceberry":
"Because I'm a bontanist, my knowledge of economics and finance is about the size of the frilly little cup at the tip of a Juneberry that was once part of the flower. It's called the 'calyx,' in case you were craving a delicious new word, the way some people crave money."

Except due to @calyxinstitute this was not a new word to me, just one that I never thought of otherwise. If, like me, though, reading a gorgeous sentence like that one compels grabbing a dictionary so large it must be opened on a table to dig deeper, then "Hi!" I see you, one of what I would estimate might be a handful of other people, who care about such knowledge and treasure it. May we meet up among the flowers some day. #bookstodon #privacy #dictionary

Does anyone know of a #Swedish #dictionary that can help me find out if words are #slurs in Swedish? I'm quite proficient in Swedish, so it would be fine if they were monolingual.

Came across a single dictionary entry that spans nearly *four full-size pages*.

Whether I can TL;DR it depends on my context being listed before others. In any case, getting some coffee ready.

Present is the moment where 'was' and 'will be' meet.

This definition of 'present' should be in the dictionary.

#present
#philosophy
#dictionary

Still working on #swad, and currently very busy with improving quality, most of the actual work done inside my #poser library.

After finally supporting #kqueue and #epoll, I now integrated #xxhash to completely replace my previous stupid and naive hashing. I also added a more involved #dictionary class as an alternative to the already existing #hashtable. While the hashtable's size must be pre-configured and collissions are only ever resolved by storing linked lists, the new dictionary dynamically nests multiple hashtables (using different bits of a single hash value). I hope to achieve acceptable scaling while maintaining also acceptable memory overhead that way ...

#swad already uses both container classes as appropriate.

Next I'll probably revisit poser's #threadpool. I think I could replace #pthread condition variables by "simple" #semaphores, which should also reduce overhead ...

https://github.com/Zirias/swad

#dictionary #words #books #reading
@merriamwebster

Meghan Houser: The Subtle #Resistance of #Dictionary.com: Can you use "context" in a sentence? "There’s something pretty interesting happening on dictionary.com & its sister site, Thesaurus.com. Scroll down to the example usages of a given word and you’ll see what I mean. Among the example sentences for “democracy” at time of publication:…"

#language
https://contrarian.substack.com/p/the-subtle-resistance-of-dictionarycom?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email

Ein kleines Datenupdate für meine Lexikon-Plug-ins Beolingus Deutsch-Englisch und OpenThesaurus Deutsch. #macOS #Dictionary #Plugins #Apple https://tekl.de/news/update-beolingus-und-openthesaurus-v2025-03-24

I have been using #WordWeb #dictionary software and apps for many years now, and they have never disappointed me.

`Good morning.

3 March 2025

There’s an old paperback Webster's New World Dictionary sitting in the middle of my desk. My wife must have been using it yesterday because I rarely reach for a dictionary anymore—the internet does it for me. This particular edition, printed in 1990, has well-used, yellowed pages. To me, 1990 doesn’t seem that long ago, though it's been over thirty years. The dictionary's cover price is $4.50, while a new version costs over $9. I could have sworn I had two copies, but glancing around, I don't see another one. I probably purchased the dictionary in a Stars and Stripes Book Store overseas. Boring, I know - like reading a dictionary.

"At painful times, when composition is impossible and reading is not enough, grammars and dictionaries are excellent for distraction. " - Elizabeth Barrett Browning