On Tue, 18 Nov 2008 15:17:09 -0800
Gary Kline [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'm looking to write a simple program to extract stuff from Project
Gutenberg's books (--of whivh there are tens ofthousands thanks to
Michael HArt and his volunteers). There is no collection of
metaphors in the public domain, and it wouldn't take that much coding if
there were a database with
[...]
Hi Gary,
I am not *entirely* sure what you are after, but wordnet comes to mind :
[EMAIL PROTECTED] [Wed Nov 19 17:26:26 2008]
/usr/home/betom
$ pkg_info -W `which wn`
/usr/local/bin/wn was installed by package WordNet-3.0
[EMAIL PROTECTED] [Wed Nov 19 17:25:41 2008]
/usr/home/betom
$ wn foot -over
Overview of noun foot
The noun foot has 11 senses (first 7 from tagged texts)
1. (89) foot, human foot, pes -- (the part of the leg of a human being below
the ankle joint; his bare feet projected from his trousers; armored from
head to foot)
2. (81) foot, ft -- (a linear unit of length equal to 12 inches or a third of a
yard; he is six feet tall)
3. (8) foot -- (the lower part of anything; curled up on the foot of the bed;
the foot of the page; the foot of the list; the foot of the mountain)
4. (4) animal foot, foot -- (the pedal extremity of vertebrates other than
human beings)
5. (2) foundation, base, fundament, foot, groundwork, substructure,
understructure -- (lowest support of a structure; it was built on a base of
solid rock; he stood at the foot of the tower)
6. (2) foot, invertebrate foot -- (any of various organs of locomotion or
attachment in invertebrates)
7. (1) foot -- (travel by walking; he followed on foot; the swiftest of
foot)
8. foot -- (a member of a surveillance team who works on foot or rides as a
passenger)
9. infantry, foot -- (an army unit consisting of soldiers who fight on foot;
there came ten thousand horsemen and as many fully-armed foot)
10. metrical foot, foot, metrical unit -- ((prosody) a group of 2 or 3
syllables forming the basic unit of poetic rhythm)
11. foot -- (a support resembling a pedal extremity; one foot of the chair was
on the carpet)
Overview of verb foot
The verb foot has 3 senses (first 1 from tagged texts)
1. (1) foot, pick -- (pay for something; pick up the tab; pick up the burden
of high-interest mortgages; foot the bill)
2. foot, leg it, hoof, hoof it -- (walk; let's hoof it to the disco)
3. foot, foot up -- (add a column of numbers)
HIH,
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