[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: WordNet-2.1

Fri Feb 17 20:28:00 GMT 2006

"Dr. Volker Zell" <dr.volker.zell@oracle.com> wrote in 
news:announce.82zmkr3sii.fsf@vzell-de.de.oracle.com:
> Hi
>> A new version of 'WordNet' has been uploaded to a server near you.
>This has defied my Googling Powers. But I have found out a few things
You call it from the command line as wn (not wordnet)
> wn

> man wn

The online interface is very useful at
http://wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn
But further have I got NOT.
Could the literati , cognoscenti or any other well disposed Cygwin 
glitterati please advise?
I have found much documentation but not a single example
Ha! Sussed it, you put the parameters AFTER the word eg
$ wn philosophy -over
Overview of noun philosophy
The noun philosophy has 3 senses (first 3 from tagged texts)
1. (12) doctrine, philosophy, philosophical system, school of thought, 
ism -- (a
 belief (or system of beliefs) accepted as authoritative by some group or 
school
)
2. (8) philosophy -- (the rational investigation of questions about 
existence an
d knowledge and ethics)
3. (1) philosophy -- (any personal belief about how to live or how to 
deal with
a situation; "self-indulgence was his only philosophy"; "my father's 
philosophy
of child-rearing was to let mother do it")

A super tool thanks to those involved!!!
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