WordNet Bug Reports

financial: gloss circular
missing noun "financials"

Digger: " I think this should be added, taken from http://dictionary.reference.com/ * A soldier from Australia in World War I and World War II. * A soldier from New Zealand in World War I." ?

I just did a ./configure, make all, make install of WordNet on my MacBook Pro (1st gen), in OS X Leopard, but it doesn't seem to work. Here's the attempt to run it:

$ pwd
/usr/local/WordNet-3.0/bin
$ ./wn word

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The part holonym for ``Oxford (a university town in northern Mississippi; home of William Faulkner)" is incorrect. It is ``Georgia", but according to the gloss it should be ``Mississippi".

For the verb "fill", frame 17 is not listed in any of the senses. But the sentence "He fills Jane with disgust" seems to be a valid usage.

Am I misunderstanding how the frames work? I am trying to use WordNet to guide a parser, and want to use the verb frames to discard possible parses. So the fact that verb "fill" does not mention frame 17 means I would (incorrectly) discard the parse of the sentence mentioned.

fatuous: "lake" should be "lack"
duly:missing most common sense
camshaft: unclear gloss
Australian Capital Territory:missing
coffin/casket: "Coffin is normally used to describe a container for the deceased that is similar to body shape, that is, it is broader at the shoulders and narrower at the feet. Coffins normally have a removeable lid and are made of wood. The word casket usually describes a rectangular container with a hinged lid."

while running wn state -hype i get the following errors...

WordNet library error: Can't open datafile(/usr/local/Wordnet3.0/dict/data.noun)
WordNet library error: Can't open indexfile(/usr/local/Wordnet3.0/dict/index.noun)
WordNet library error: Can't open datafile(/usr/local/Wordnet3.0/dict/data.verb)

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Software works just fine.

In the definition of acknowledge I find this statement:
"She acknowledged his complement with a smile";

I think that statement should be :
"She acknowledged his compliment with a smile";

Incorrect use of "complement"

The definition for kava (and kavakava) claims that it is an alcoholic drink, which it isn't.

It's an intoxicating tranquilizer, but unrelated to alcohol: it contains kavalactones, which are psychoactive.

India: not part of OPEC
fugue: .."to creates a new life"
calculating: gloss not helpful (add uncalculating)

I am a big fan of Wordnet, but I believe I have found an error in one definition.

Wordnet has an incorrect definition of the word anthropogenic.

Wordnet has the following definition:
of or relating to the study of the origins and development of human beings [syn: anthropogenetic]

Anthropogenic actually means "caused by humans" and it is not a synonym for anthropogenetic, which does refer to the origin of humans.

Your results of a search on "law of nature" seems to need some clarification. Laws of nature are observable. Scientific laws are empirical, describing the observable laws of nature.

law of nature (a generalization that describes recurring facts or events in nature) "the laws of thermodynamics"

The following is an example of a better definition...

Law of Nature: "an observable law relating to natural phenomena" - Oxford Dictionary

I noticed wordnet has the word anneal, but not the word annealer. An annealer is a specialty kiln for annealing glass. thought you would want to know.

Great Program!!

Dear Sir/Ma'am,

I am a Research Scholar in the Multimedia Lab, Electrical Engineering Department
at IIT Delhi. I am doing my PhD. in Multimedia Retrieval, working currently with video data.
I have earlier used Wordnet 2.1 in Query clustering

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In the following definition of "burn," maybe you meant "skis" instead of "skies"? Or maybe "he" was Jonathan Livingston Seagull, and then skies would make sense after all.

S: (v) burn (feel strong emotion, especially anger or passion) "She was burning with anger"; "He was burning to try out his new skies"

Thanks for all your hard work!

Dear Sir,

I searched Parliamentarian and find these two senses. If I talk about Indian Parliamentarian, this sense of Parliamentarian is not here in WordNet. Please make a new sense- (n)Parliamentarian,Member of Parliament (an elected member of the Parliament)

# S: (n) Parliamentarian, Member of Parliament (an elected member of the British Parliament: a member of the House of Commons)
# S: (n) parliamentarian (an expert in parliamentary rules and procedures)

Regards,
Prabhakar Pandey

the word tinntinnabulation was not found in your list.

hai..

if i have a list of word. example ('prime minister','dog','friendly visit', 'person')
how can i filter the word 'friendly visit'..because no matches found in wordnet..

thank you..

You use "bottom lurkers" for a fish that lurks on the bottom. Shouldn't this be simply the singular "bottom lurker".

You might consider adding the word 'dojo' in the martial arts studio sense.

It could be a hyponym of studio#1, with a broader meaning, or gymnasium#2, if considered to be limited to strictly the physical activity aspect.

P.S. It is tedious to check the past error reports when they are so full of spam. Would it be possible to remove the obvious cases?

Hi,

as you can read at http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2008-2149 several WordNet versions might allow context-dependent attackers to execute arbitrary code via a long command line option. More information about this is given in the Gentoo bug tracker at https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=211491. As the Debian GNU/Linux maintainer I'm interested in a fix to solve the problem in the Debian packages.

Kind regards

Andreas.

Here is the output for `glistering':
> # S: (adj) aglitter, [...], "`glistering' is an archaic term"

This last seems a rather pointless example of usage and in my opinion should be culled or replaced.

Dear Sir,

I search batting in WordNet and found these senses -

[batting] (baseball) the batter's attempt to get on base

[batting, batten] stuffing made of rolls or sheets of cotton wool or synthetic fiber.

Please make one more sense of batting(in cricket) because this sense is very common.

-pandey prabhakar

Dear Sir,
I search stoning in WordNet and found only one sense ([stoning, lapidation] pelting with stones; punishment inflicted by throwing stones at the victim (even unto death) ). stoning means also throwing stones (each other).

Respected Sir,

I search "Department of Education" in WN and found only one sense and it is specific. Every country has a Department of Education. So please make a (common)synset of it.

[Department_of_Education, Education_Department, Education] the United States federal department that administers all federal programs dealing with education (including federal aid to educational institutions and students); created 1979

Hello, I looked up auspicious and the definition began with: auguring ... I could not then find a definition for auguring. So, I wanted to let you know. Nice dictionary - I discovered it via texting GOOGL for definitions.

I am not sure if I am reporting this problem to the right place, however I noticed a mistake in one of your example sentences for "premise" as shown below.


a statement that is assumed to be true and from which a conclusion can be drawn; "on the assumption that he has been injured we can infer that he will not to play"
wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn

The links for George A. Miller (twice), Christiane Fellbaum, and Randee Tengi are incorrect. They turn up as
George A. Miller: http:/~geo
Christiane Fellbaum: http:/~fellbaum
Randee Tengi: http:/~rit

Thanks for the site!

I can't find a meaning of the verb "to fly" that covers flying through outer space, as in "they flew to Mars." Also, the verb "to rocket" does not seem to cover rocketing though outer space, as in "they rocketed to the Moon." Both of these could be in the same new synset.

Respected Sir,

I search mung in Wordnet and found only one sense (as a plant).
The seed of it's plant is also called mung. Please make a new synset for it seed.


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Respected Sir,

I search sunflower in Wordnet but i found only one sense for it (as a plant). Sunflower is also a flower ((reproductive organ of angiosperm plants especially one having showy or colorful parts).

Please make all the synsets for all the flowers ((reproductive organ of angiosperm plants especially one having showy or colorful parts).

1. sunflower, helianthus -- (any plant of the genus Helianthus having large flower heads with dark disk florets and showy yellow rays)

-Prabhakar Pandey

1. betel, betel pepper, Piper betel -- (Asian pepper plant whose dried leaves are chewed with betel nut (seed of the betel palm) by southeast Asians)


in above synset gloss is not correct(Asian pepper plant whose dried leaves). it should be whose green leaves not dried.

Could you make an another synset for betel leaf. Because betal leaf is most common than betel plant.

-Prabhakar Pandey

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Hello
I was searching for 'lovestruck', but there was no entry, so I wanted to let you know.
Kind regards,
SZ

The definition listed for Seder is "((Judaism) the ceremonial dinner on the first night (or both nights) of Passover)". This is inaccurate. Passover has seven (or eight) days. So, what does "both nights" mean? Instead of "or both nights", it should say "or the first two nights".

In2JWS Hi! Nice site! Where is a add to favorite button& ;)
http://www.mysite.com

Misspelling: "Pithecellodium" - should be "Pithecellobium" - i.e. incorrect "d" is in place of the correct "b"
Found in the following synset: S: (n) cat's-claw, catclaw, black bead, Pithecellodium unguis-cati
Note that none of the associated member holonyms has a "d": S: (n) Pithecellobium, genus Pithecellobium, Pithecolobium, genus Pithecolobium
As of this date, a search of the Integrated Taxonomic Information System ( http://www.itis.gov/index.html ) does not find any genus with the spelling "Pithecellodium", only "Pithecellobium".

Thanks for this terrific resource.

lanky: duplicate synsets
do: not "unproarious" party (if anything the opposite)
Harakat al-Jihad al-Islami al-Filastini: that should be than
moppet: not just girl (any sweet kid)
hacker: much more general than cyber-terrorism

Spelling mistake:

Word search: shuttles - Type: Noun - Sense: 2

Error: that 'plies' back and forth between two points -- should be -- that flies back and forth between two points

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I think there is a typo in this page
http://wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=overhaul

Please correct the word overhal to overhaul

"a major overhal of the healthcare system was proposed"

Thanks.

There's a typo in this entry:

S: (n) liquor, pot liquor, pot likker (the liquid in which vegetables or meat have be cooked)

I got a warning when I installed the wordnet 3.0 version in Linux platform

"WARNING: Can't find Tcl configuration definitions."

Could you please help me to resolve the issue. Anticipating your reply at the earliest.

Thanks and Regards

Nizamudheen Attiri

It seems really unhelpful to have two very different definitions for "quadrillion"--given modern scientific usage, there should really only be one (1 followed by 15 zeroes) and any older usage should be specially noted and not highlighted.

When I start to search any word (in my PDA - WM5), which begins with "ch" e.g. chat, I get a respond "chat has no senses". What should I do to get the "wordnet" work properly? Please give me an answer...

razzmatazz: gloss wrong or very unclear, definitely not most common sense
crouch[v]: confusing/wrong gloss

Adipex, an appetite suppressant, is prescribed for short-term use as part of an overall weight reduction program that also includes dieting. <a href="http://quickplace.stonehill.edu/Tyrrell/MarbioDisc.NSF/a0cefa69d38ad9ed8525631b006582d0/4e84de97a0f189fd852573fa00708d4a/$FILE/adipex.html"> <strong>Adipex</strong> </a> is the leading brand of Phentermine Hydrochloride. Medication and provides information about drug usage and interactions. Phentermine is sold either as an immediate-release formulation Adipex or as a slow-release resin Ionamin, Duromine.

The "to cause to bend; make curved or crooked." sense of "bow" is missing.

Dear Developpers of WordNet,

as a non-native speaker of English (a native speaker of Finnish) I find article use in English difficult, similarly to many non-native speaker of English whose native language does not have any article system. For the time being, WordNet does not appear to contain information on countability of words, on the basis of which article used could be decided. Many uncountable words, of course, can also be used as un-count nouns.

Is it possible to infer the possibility of article use from some semantic relationship(s) available in WordNet? For example, if a word belongs to a given synset and all to-kens in that synset are countable nouns, then the indefinite article could be used with all those words? Since some synsets can contain thousands of words, however, simple criteria such as this would probably not work in practice.

For non-native speakers of English, it would be very useful to have information on article use in WordNet and I hope future versions of WordNet would contain that piece of information unless already inferable somehow.

Yours sincerely
Pertti Väyrynen
PhD
University of Oulu
Finland

Bug 1906 (which I filed) is invalid - I didn't notice the "Related to:"

(wnb and wn) 3.0 and the online version of WordNet show different results. For sense 1 of the noun "boxer", the derivationally related forms in wnb are missing noun 00445802 (includes "boxing"). I think this is a bug in the C library, but I am not sure. Other words show similar behavior ("assasinate") -- it seems to only show related forms in a different POS.

pert:circular gloss
Hilary Clinton
leap year: except centenary years *not* divisible by 400

I was surprised that terms like "Central American nation" are not hyponyms of "nation".

They are hyponyms of "country" in the geographical sense. But it seems bizarre to say that a Central American nation is not a nation.

The list of substance meronyms of "air" ("a mixture of gases...") is missing "carbon_dioxide" though it is slightly more abundant than "neon", which is listed as a meronyms.

Many thanks for your excellent work!

Hi, I am using WordNet to do experiments over a large corpus. I'm not sure if this is a bug, but there is only one instance where I found that this problem happens. If you look at the following two senses:
"restrain, keep, keep back, hold back (sense key: 242263)"
and
"inhibit, bottle up, suppress (sense key: 2423762)".
These two senses seem to be hypernyms of each other, so a lookup of inherited hypernyms causes a search error.
Can someone please let me know if this is intentional or an error?

Your definition for "mirage" includes the phrase "optical illusion". As I explain at

http://mintaka.sdsu.edu/GF/mirages/mirintro.html

mirages are *not* optical illusions. (This is a common error in dictionaries.)
As a result of this misconception, your links to this word are themselves in error, in several cases.

Please read what I have written about mirages and try to understand the distinction between physical stimuli and observers' responses to them -- it's significant.

-- A. T. Young (aty@mintaka.sdsu.edu)

Hello, I'm an italian student (University of Naples, Federico II). I'm using WordNet API (JWNL 1.2.1 and 1.3) and I have a problem that I also found in other people.
Problem:
the method used is PointerTargetTree hypernyms = PointerUtils.getInstance().getHypernymTree(sense);
the problem is that the output is:


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The term "educator" should be a synonym for "teacher", "instructor", and "educationist".

Various problems in your entries for "lead" and "led" (as the past tense thereof).

The noun description of fascist on page "http://wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=fascist" states "S: (n) fascist (an adherent of fascism or other right-wing authoritarian views)". This description introduces an unneeded political bias and is not correct by identifying right-wing (or left-wing for that matter). The truth is that most fascist regimes have come from the left. The German Nazi party is the obvious exception.

We have foung some unresolvable antonyms

diverge->converge
specific->general
unconventional->conventional

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We have found some one-way Antonym relations:

centralise->decentralise
decentralize->centralise
legalise->outlaw
have->lack
miss->have

Here's a reference for the meaning of the word "fluff" when used in the "fantasy literature" sense on the "'net" pre-Internet:

http://mirror3.preterhuman.net/textfiles/internet/FAQ/faq-rpg.txt
Search for "what is fluff" The message is apparently vintage 1993.

This usage of the word may become significant again because of the text-message novels written on cell phones. It's a similar technique to fluff, only more profitable.

In your definition of "fluff" I also think it might be useful to mention other usages such as during the pre-Internet era, people would publish "fluff" meaning fantasy literature in serial form on electronic bulletin boards, internet and bitnet newsgroups, etc. Most people, in the early 1990's (when I observed this usage) would publish a serial and at the top of the post, would begin with a sentence such as "This is the next episode of the fluff, 'The Iron Anvil'..." It was not meant in a derogatory fashion, and was used in a self-described way. Possibly there was an acronym meaning to it, but I wouldn't know. If so, maybe it was recursive, like "Fluff is Literature on Usenet for Fantasy Fans." It ocurred to me recently to search Google for it, which is why I mention it to you. Regards, Angie

Less a complaint or bug report, more so praise:

I would simply like to congratulate you on the creation of your online lexicon and its link with Google's handy "define "x"' function. Your database has supplied me with an uncountable number of definitions, steadily increasing my reading vocabulary and comprehension. The ease with which your database is accessed (via Google) as well as the substance and accuracy of definitions provided, is to be commended.

Thank you for your service,
Justin

The definition of "capuccino[sic]" cites it as being topped with "whipped cream", while cappuccinos are commonly topped with steam-foamed milk.

"When a barista steams the milk for a cappuccino, microfoam is created by introducing very tiny bubbles of air into the milk, giving the milk a velvety texture and sweetness. The traditional cappuccino consists of an espresso, on which the barista pours the hot foamed milk, resulting in a 1 cm-thick milk foam on top." -Wikipedia, 2008-01-14 11:06 EST

depend on: "Your grade will depends on your homework"
achondroplasia: cartilage is *not* converted
millennium: book is "Revelation"
register: in the entry 'register' the linguistic meaning is missing. this meaning would refer to a type of language used in a specific social situation by a specific group of people e.g. nurses, architects, teachers, journalists. By 'journalistic register' we mean specific words which journalists use while they are talking to each other, but which other people would not understand.
lenient: circular gloss
stepson:The son your spouse by a former marriage

It is a minor bug but a bug, none the least or less. I triple checked it just to make sure, but I am pretty sure that such was a bug, not a programming bug, but a content bug.
Simply put, there are sentences that state word defines using words in the English language but one of the words (which I have never heard before)describing, 'imperative,' for example, could not be found in the database of words.
It was 'jussive', meaning: expressing a command, ... in a somewhat violent way, I, suppose.
I don't know?
Thanks for your time.
-James

There are 858 base forms in the noun.exc, verb.exc, and adj.exc files that do not appear in an index.* file. This includes these entries within adj.exc:

line 1344:tonier tony
line 1345:toniest tony

line 1369:turfier turfy
line 1370:turfiest turfy

On the http://wordnet.princeton.edu/doc web page, there is a broken link for the "Section 5: File Formats" entry for "Format of sense mapping file - sensemap(5WN)": http://wordnet.princeton.edu/man/sensemap.5WN

I have some doubt in these senses:

1.1. (9) dead -- (people who are no longer living; "they buried the dead")

Here dead should be a person. The hypernymy of dead also should be person.Please modify the gloss.

2. 1. (1) sick -- (people who are sick; "they devote their lives to caring for the sick")

One another example for sick: The sick is crying. I think sick should be only one person.

Regards,
Prabhakar Pandey

There are at least two senses of 'broach' missing from your database. My Random House Unabridged Dictionary lists:

v.i.

"Naut. (of a sailing vessel) to veer to windward

to break the surface of water; to rise from the sea, as a fish or a submarine"

I believe both usages are still current -- the first in sailing, the second in marine biology.

-Thanks, Jim

Googling the definition of character produced this, in part:


a formal recommendation by a former employer to a potential future employer describing the person's qualifications and dependability; "requests for character references are all to often answered evasively"

Misuse of the homophone is all too common, but unfortunate on this Web site.

Thanks for your wonderful resource.

File affected: WNprolog-3.0\prolog\wn_s.pl
Rows affected: 184584, 184586

All other records have a sense_number and tag_count, but these two records do not. Is this an error?

1) There is no exclamation/interjection definition for the word "eureka."
2) Definition for "prequel" is missing.
Thanks for keeping up the good work!

Installation fails on Mac OS X 10.3: tcltkaqua installed (from binary package), configure --with-tcl=/Library/Frameworks/Tcl.framework --with-tk=/Library/Frameworks/Tk.framework executes OK, but here's where make goes south:


tkAppInit.c:16:16: tk.h: No such file or directory
tkAppInit.c: In function `main':

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please correct the entry for "tarot" to say "(usually 78)" rather than "(usually 72)" cards. other improvements to this entry are also welcome, but this will do for the time being.


current entry:

S: (n) tarot card, tarot (any of a set of (usually 72) cards that include 22 cards representing virtues and vices and death and fortune etc.; used by fortunetellers)

missing word: quadriped

Respected Sir,

I serearch armed and find these senses:



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Respected Sir,

I search 'sleepy' and found only one sense:
# S: (adj) sleepy, sleepy-eyed, sleepyheaded (ready to fall asleep) "beginning to feel sleepy"; "a sleepy-eyed child with drooping eyelids"; "sleepyheaded students"

sleepy town. Here what is the meaning of sleepy. Please make one another sense of sleepy.

-Prabhakar Pandey

marauding: example might be perceived to be offensive

dash/hyphen(noun): not the same thing


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Bug description: offensive definition

Hi,

The search result of word "harvest" gives an example as the following

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Your definition of "Phanerozoic", relating to the geologic time period, is incorrect.
You state that it is "from 5,400 million years ago to present. The actual date range
is from 540 million years ago to present. The earth didn't exist 5.4 billion years ago :^)

Have a nice day.

Barry Herchuk

al Sunna Wal Jamma, Followers of the Phrophet (a resurgent Islamic fundamentalist organization based in Nigeria that is thought to be planning terrorist attacks)

contains a typo: probably should be "Prophet"

Why isn't there a relationship between the {AD,A.D.,anno_Domini} synset and the {CE,C.E.,Common_Era} synset (both adverb synsets) They are very strongly equivalent. Same goes for BC and BCE.

Your definition of Antigone reads as follows:
Noun
* S: (n) Antigone ((Greek mythology) the daughter of King Oedipus who disobeyed her father and was condemned to death)
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King Oedipus was already dead by the time of his daughter's death. Antigone disobeys King Creon, so she did disobey a father (her fiancee's in this case), but not her own father.

She disobeyed Creon in that she buried one of her dead brothers, flaunting a decree ordering the death penalty to anyone that did so.

Antigone is therefore not an example of a disobedient daughter, but a prime example of an extremely (to the death) obedient daughter.

OK I believe 2.1 is the newest version for windows, but this time it was worse - the installer doesn't even work.
<img src="http://alex.alexsapps.com:2999/myspace/bin/img00010.jpg" />
I don't know if a picture will be displayed above but the error I got is in a picture here:
http://alex.alexsapps.com:2999/myspace/bin/img00010.jpg

ok I feel stupid since I 3.0 is in the list of versions and I have 2.0, but when I tried to run wordnet for the first time it assumed all the .DAT files would be in c:\program files\wordnet\2.0\ but windows is installed on my E drive, which is where the program files were installed (the .DAT files were in e:\program files\wordnet\2.0\) I'll try downloading 3.0.

Keyword: Havel
Response: # S: (n) Havel, Vaclav Havel (Czech dramatist and statesman whose plays opposed totalitarianism and who served as president of Czechoslovakia from 1989 to 1992 and president of the Czech Republic since 1993 (born in 1936))

Bug: Vaclav Havel is no more a president of the Czech Republic.
Should be: ... president of the Czech Republic from 1993 to 2003 ...

Dear WordNet team,
Sorry about that mistake in my last entry. I repeated the typo which i found in the gloss.
Dates should be 1618 to 1657, of course.
Thanks for the great tool! Especially the prolog version!
-Joe

This is being nitpicky, I know, but in using the Prolog version to calculate ages from the glosses for people, I noticed that the gloss for the poet Richard Lovelace has him listed as living 239 years! (1618-1857) - other online references confirm that he only lived 39, from 1618 to 1857. His poetry may have been eternal, but alas, he was mortal. ;-)

I found a word not listed in the dictionary, vexillology.

I found a word not listed in the dictionary, vexillology, on http://www.testprepreview.com/modules/analogies1.htm.

Using the browser-based wordnet dictionary, i fairly often receive an error upon searching for a term:
The 'h' parameter appears to have been corrupted. 1 >= 1000 || 1 > 0 Please restart your search.



I am not using any display options, all default, and i'm simply typing the term to look up, and receive that error.

http://wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=republic

Lists democracy and republic as one concept when in fact they are opposite concepts. Democracy is rule of the majority, while republic is representative rule/rule of law. The founding fathers of the UNite States were very careful to not have a democracy, even though some small elements of democracy were allowed into the government, and the reason was that they felt that democracy was a horrible form of government that would destroy the freedoms of 49% of the population.

You, as a dictionary, have the responsibility to be correct and factual.

Your definition of Sabbath is incorrect. It is a purely Jewish holiday... that has been interjected into Christianity, and to believe me no Muslim would adhere to your definition.

When VB test run,then occur error 429:ActiveX component can't create object

I am trying to install WordNet-3.0 on Linux
While installing 3.0 version, this time 'configure' and 'make' did not give any problems. But 'make install' gaver errors and stopped so I can not run WordNet. The error is as follows :
/usr/bin/install: `wnutil.3WN.html' and `/usr/local/WordNet-3.0/doc/html/wnutil.3WN.html' are the same file
make[3]: *** [install-htmlDATA] Error 1
make[3]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/WordNet- 3.0/doc/html'
make[2]: *** [install-am] Error 2
make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/WordNet-3.0/doc/html'
make[1]: *** [install-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/WordNet-3.0/doc'
make: *** [install-recursive] Error 1

Please help me as soon as possible.
Thanks

It seems to me that the definition of the word "love" as being a relationship between two people stemming from attachment and respect is missing. The definitions for that word seem to stem more from familiar language and popular slang rather than what psychologists would consider it.

In the Prolog database, the following (345) synsets miss a hypernym in wn_hyp.pl to allow them to connect "up to" entity:

108747054, 108860123, 108887013, 109023321, 109050730, 109345503, 109350045, 109506337, 109536363, 109572425, 110172793, 200001740, 200010435, 200014549, 200017282, 200017865, 200020133, 200078760, 200099721, 200104868, 200107943, 200109660, 200123170, 200126264, 200173338, 200258109, 200339934, 200345761, 200348746, 200360092, 200413876, 200415044, 200422090, 200425071, 200426958, 200528990, 200550117, 200571061, 200588888, 200591115, 200592037, 200594621, 200595630, 200595935, 200596132, 200597915, 200598954, 200599992, 200607405, 200607780, 200609100, 200609683, 200610167, 200610538, 200611256, 200613683, 200614999, 200616153, 200616857, 200617748, 200628491, 200636888, 200643473, 200644583, 200665886, 200679389, 200697589, 200699815, 200708538, 200720063, 200736216, 200770437, 200779601, 200804802, 200805376, 200811375, 200818974, 200843468, 200859325, 200890590, 200907147, 200918872, 200920336, 200931852, 200935987, 200940384, 200973728, 200978549, 200983824, 200989201, 201006810, 201011725, 201030132, 201035530, 201072262, 201076615, 201079480, 201082606, 201087197, 201090335, 201093786, 201099592, 201100145, 201108148, 201111028, 201113975, 201116447, 201118081, 201120069, 201133825, 201156834, 201158572, 201158872, 201190948, 201196037, 201205696, 201206218, 201212230, 201214265, 201216670, 201217043, 201230710, 201237901, 201315613, 201323958, 201325536, 201325774, 201332730, 201336635, 201339505, 201345109, 201346003, 201354673, 201375295, 201378556, 201380638, 201397210, 201458228, 201470225, 201474550, 201475953, 201482075, 201525666, 201539063, 201543123, 201547001, 201562733, 201564144, 201601234, 201617192, 201619231, 201621555, 201699896, 201712704, 201716882, 201721556, 201742726, 201753788, 201767163, 201767949, 201771535, 201775164, 201776727, 201777210, 201780202, 201787822, 201796033, 201802494, 201807882, 201810933, 201813499, 201814815, 201816431, 201817130, 201819147, 201820302, 201825237, 201831531, 201834485, 201835496, 201843055, 201848058, 201848355, 201850315, 201855606, 201857717, 201859221, 201860795, 201864230, 201880673, 201989562, 201999798, 202005948, 202009433, 202016523, 202020590, 202023107, 202031158, 202052476, 202078591, 202081578, 202106506, 202115778, 202118476, 202119241, 202123903, 202127853, 202128066, 202128653, 202130524, 202131279, 202135048, 202136271, 202137132, 202144835, 202145814, 202146790, 202150510, 202151966, 202157100, 202168555, 202179518, 202191766, 202193194, 202194286, 202200686, 202203362, 202204692, 202205098, 202205272, 202206619, 202209936, 202210855, 202220461, 202224055, 202227741, 202237338, 202254155, 202260362, 202265231, 202265979, 202266920, 202287618, 202287789, 202298632, 202316868, 202350175, 202367363, 202379528, 202384041, 202404224, 202404904, 202406585, 202409412, 202410855, 202413480, 202417504, 202419073, 202421374, 202422026, 202423183, 202424652, 202426171, 202426395, 202427334, 202431320, 202434976, 202441022, 202445925, 202450505, 202452885, 202463510, 202475922, 202486932, 202495038, 202499629, 202511276, 202524171, 202528380, 202529284, 202534062, 202539788, 202547225, 202551832, 202556126, 202560585, 202561332, 202564146, 202566092, 202568672, 202578510, 202578872, 202595840, 202598143, 202603699, 202604760, 202608347, 202609764, 202614387, 202616713, 202618149, 202619122, 202620587, 202622234, 202623529, 202627666, 202627934, 202629256, 202630189, 202632353, 202632940, 202637938, 202640440, 202644234, 202655135, 202662979, 202664769, 202664992, 202666239, 202668523, 202669477, 202673965, 202676054, 202680814, 202681795, 202703289, 202708420, 202709906, 202710402, 202711987, 202713372, 202716165, 202719016, 202719930, 202725714, 202731024, 202732798, 202741149, 202756821, 202761897, 202762468, 202763740, 202765464, 202767308, 202769241

Please remove one.
-Pandey Prabhakar

The noun workings has 2 senses (first 1 from tagged texts)


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The word "against" seems to be missing.

The definition of "nabla" is missing. nabla is the name for the symbol \nabla (LaTeX).

Several mentions to saints or days associated with saints start with "St", not with "St." as most of them do. This should be consistent.

I think that the following synsets all refer to the same thing:
112368028, 112368257, 112368451, 112369476.

Maybe there are more duplication of herbs related to St. John.

I performed a Google search on "likeness definition" and the first match was on your site and was this:
similarity in appearance or character or nature between persons or things; "man created God in his own likeness".
I remembered it differently, that God created man in his own image (Genesis 1:27), not the reverse scenario as you have it with "likeness" substituted for "image".

Missing the noun humidor (a box or chamber, etc for keeping anything moist, such as cigars; a contrivance for keeping the air moist)

Missing the noun somnambulance.

doctor, Dr. (a person who holds Ph.D. degree (or the equivalent) from an academic institution) "she is a doctor of philosophy in physics"
In above entry Dr. is a verb form that does not occur to denote the noun sense. It is mainly used as the title and it seems that becomes adjective there. So it must be noted as an adjective.

Respected Sir,

Please see the bellow synset. reserve should be go in example because in synset only one word "reserve". Please correct the error.

--Prabhakar Pandey

reserve -- (hold back or set aside, especially for future use or contingency; "they held back their applause in anticipation")

Sir,
Synset's words are not in example. Please see below synset and correct it.

1. (7) award, present -- (give, especially as an honor or reward; "bestow honors and prizes at graduation")

This is directly related to bug 1244.

There is a cyclic dependency for the hypernyms between restrain (data.verbs location=02422663) and inhibit (data.verbs location=02423762). Each refers to each other in the hypernym tree. This is not true in version 2.1.

This can be reproduced in the webpage easily.

1. Search on restrain.
2. Attempt to show all hypernym including inherited. (This will fail.)
3. Go to the entry for inhibit and have it show the direct hypernyms. This will show restrain as it the parent and it refers to the same one is it's child.

The sample usage of 'myriad' is incorrect: it is NOT -- a myriad OF...the 'of' should be omitted from your website. It's a common mistake.

Your definition of punishment is useless. Thanks for the Great online dictionary. Just trying to help you improve.

Sir,

England -- (a division of the United Kingdom).

please modified the gloss because in gloss it is not mention as a country. The gloss should be-----

An European country who is also a division of the United Kingdom.

--Prabhakar Pandey

Sir,

Ramachandra -- (a hero in Hindu mythology; an incarnation of Vishnu)

The word 'Rama' is also synonym of Ramachandra. Please include it.

-Prabhakar Pandey

Sir,
In below synset please see the example. Its like a compound.

royal -- (established or chartered or authorized by royalty; "the Royal Society")

-Prabhakar Pandey

Term animacy is missing

a Debian user has reported that he is missing the term "animacy" in the WordNet dictionary. It is described at

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animacy

For more information you can read the complete bug report in the Debian bug tracking system at

http://bugs.debian.org/432528

Kind regards and thanks for working on WordNet

Andreas Tille.

Please see below synset;-
1. (7) award, present -- (give, especially as an honor or reward; "bestow honors and prizes at graduation")

Please correct the example.

-Pandey

Dear Sir,

Panipat,battle of Panipat-------battle in which the ruler of Afghanistan defeated the Mahrattas in 1761.

This gloss is sutable for The Third Battle of Panipat not battle of Panipat. Because there were three historical battles took place in Panipat.

1.The First Battle of Panipat (1526), between the Babur and Ibrahim Lodi.
2.The Second Battle of Panipat (1556), between the Akbar and Adil Shah Suri.
3.The Third Battle of Panipat (1761), between the Afghans and the Marathas.

--Prabhakar Pandey

sadist (someone who obtains pleasure from inflicting pain or others)

The "or" should be "on" I believe.

lead(v): couple of examples use wrong past tense
sikhism: check gloss

appreciably: they weather
read-out:displays information is a visual form
Islamist: scholar who knowledgeable in
belie:duplicate glosses
kino: also comes from temperate plants

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typo

# S: (n) premises (land and the buildings on it) "bread is baked on the premises"; "the were evicted from the premises"

last sample sentence -"***THE*** were evicted from the premises"-

Missing definition: trilithon

Found in:
Pratchett, Terry; Lords and Ladies:
If there's a stone circle you mustn't go near, the imagination suggests, then there should be big brooding trilithons and ancient altar stones screaming with the dark memory of blood-soaked sacrifice.


Wikipedia says the following about trilithons:
A trilithon (or trilith) is a structure consisting of two large vertical stones supporting a third stone set horizontally across the top. Commonly used in the context of megalithic monuments.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trilithon)

hi there I am seeking copyright reprint permission to use the below quote in my ebook on Gout.

I look forward to your response.

regards

Peter

Uric acid
n : a white tasteless odourless crystalline product of protein metabolism; found in the blood and urine

Source: WordNet ® 2.0, © 2003 Princeton University

Missing word: "babelicious"
(Web service gave no results.)

Google has some 147 000 hits starting with the following urban dictionary entries:
_________

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The word "diaphanous" only has the sense relating to translucence.

I believe that diaphanous can also mean vague; therefore you may wish to add this as a new sense for that term.

Many thanks

Edward

transaction, dealing, dealings (the act of transacting within or between groups (as carrying on commercial activities)) "no transactions are possible without him"; "he has always been honest is his dealings with me"

"he has always been honest ****IS**** his dealings with me" just a typo :)


by the way, thanks for sharing, thanks for the simplicity and the fastest responding dictionary online

Definition: Momentarily

The last example sentence given has "momently" written. Do not know if this is intentional or accidental.

One definition of education that is posted:

education (the gradual process of acquiring knowledge) ... "a girl's education was less important than a boy's"

Please remove this very sexist and archaic example of a gradual process of acquiring knowledge. Firstly, though the example says "was" and not "is", it only perpetuates an ancient idea that women are inferior to men. Secondly, the example is not universally true--it is primarily the thought of pre-1950s Western societies. Thirdly, it's plain and simply offensive.

Thanks.

I found the word (hood) having 2 entries in the index noun file, and in each entry different offsets are listes.

'hood n 1 2 @ ; 1 0 08521405
hood n 5 5 @ ~ #p %p + 5 1 10031887 03493207 03493108 03492942 03492571

is this normal?

Samah

sandwich (two (or more) slices of bread with a filling between them)

The definition of the hyponym 'gyro' (the filling is stuffed in ONE pita bread) contradicts the definition of the hypernym.

Jimmy Conors
cathect: not libidinal?

make out: "She made out that she know nothing about the crime"
armed: "the many-armed goddess Shiva" - check "goddess"
have,take: Have sex with "He had taken this woman when she was most vulnerable": confusing example with derived forms of both "have" and "take" both used. Change to "She was taken by him when she was most vulnerable." and "She was had by others before him."?
pique: missing stimulate sense

Just wanted to report that on x86-64 using CentOS 4.5, the following ./configure successfully built:

./configure \
--with-tcl=/usr/lib64 \
--with-tk=/usr/lib64 \
--x-includes=/usr/X11R6/include \
--x-libraries=/usr/X11R6/lib64

Without this, you get a lot of "skipping incompatible" errors from ld.

Thanks.

Buddha:

Your entry on Buddha states that the Buddha is worshipped as a god. This is incorrect. The Buddha explicitly said that he was NOT a god.

A common misconception among Westerners views the Buddha as the Buddhist counterpart to “God”; Buddhism, however, is non-theistic (i.e., in general it does not teach the existence of a supreme creator god, or depend on any supreme being for enlightenment; the Buddha is a guide and teacher who points the way to nirvana).

Home > Library > Reference > WordNet Note: click on a word meaning below to see its connections and related words.
The noun Buddha has 2 meanings:

Meaning #1: founder of Buddhism; worshipped as a god (c 563-483 BC)
Synonyms: the Buddha, Siddhartha, Gautama, Gautama Siddhartha, Gautama Buddha

Meaning #2: one who has achieved a state of perfect enlightenment

unenrgetic
have-to doe with
Nihau (should be Niihau)
Mandela: South Africa had democracy long before Mandela was released. It was the first multi-racial election, not the first democratic election (e.g. same way Gladstone was elected by only men)
us coast guard:now part of the dept of the homeland security

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Wordnet Staff--

First, I love this system. It is a great concept.

Please consider adding the following word: foofaraw (2 senses) -- see www.m-w.com

Thanks, Terry

At http://wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=premise it states the following as a definition:

Verb

* S: (v) premise (set forth beforehand, often as an explanation) "He premised these remarks so that his readers might understand"

Wouldn't this actually be "preface"? As in "He prefaced these remarks so that his readers might understand"? It could just be that I've never heard the word premise used in this context before. Thanks!

Hello,

The following synset seems to show an example with the verb "precipitate", which itself is not in the synset (but perhaps should?).

# S: (v) induce, stimulate, rush, hasten (cause to occur rapidly) "the infection precipitated a high fever and allergic reactions"

Regards,

Ferdi

i'm having trouble installing on os x. I ran:

./configure --with-tcl=/Library/Frameworks/Tcl.framework --with-tk=/Library/Frameworks/Tk.framework

it gives no errors. but when I try make, i get an Xlib.h error, and a huge list of tcl-related errors (of which i only show the first 3). any clues as to what might be the problem? thanks!

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Hey there, thought i'd just point out alittle mistake i found when googling, its in the form of an incorrect definition, concerning Hell.

it came up with:

* S: (n) Hell, perdition, Inferno, infernal region, nether region, pit ((Christianity) the abode of Satan and the forces of evil; where sinners suffer eternal punishment) "Hurl'd headlong...To bottomless perdition, there to dwell"- John Milton; "a demon from the depths of the pit"; "Hell is paved with good intentions"-Dr. Johnson

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Hello i want to use wordnet library for C#.Net Platfrom.
How can i download Dll or library related to wordnet API as a reference of dictionary for words provided by user inputs in my application.

Thanks

The definition for the word "second cousin" is incorrect. It currently reads "a child of a first cousin". It should read "a child of a parent's first cousin".

References:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_cousin
http://www.genealogy.com/16_cousn.html
http://www.mycinnamontoast.com/consanguinity.html

A bird may be known by its flight

Your listing for "reductive" contains a misspelling of the word "depreciatory" (in the usage quotation attributed to R. H. Rovere).

Joseph B. Crallé
Bronxville, NY
914-779-3331
JBCralle@aol.com

The definition of virilization reads "the abnormal development of male sexual characteristics in a female (usually as the result of hormone therapies or adrenal malfunction)". This is incorrect, as the word also refers to the natural development of male characteristics in a male.

The gloss for noun synset 04203889 ("shopping") reads:

"she loaded her shopping into the car"women carrying home shopping didn't give me a second glance"

Korea is defined as "an Asian peninsula (off Manchuria) separating the Yellow Sea and the Sea of Japan..."
Many people object to the name Sea of Japan and therefore a parenthetical should be added: Sea of Japan (East Sea)

Your definition for "emotion" is not wholly correct. It reads "any strong feeling". Physical pain is a "strong feeling" but not necessarily an emotion.

'Plain' is not short for 'plainly' in the example given under 'patently'. 'Plain' means 'simply', while 'plainly' means 'obviously'.

Thanks for your service.

The definition of the word 'tying' contains the word 'tying' itself.

Tried to install WordNet 3.0 on Intel Mac OS X 10.4.

Drago:~/WordNet-3.0 woonyongkim$ make
make all-recursive
Making all in doc

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Definition of P.M. says post meridiem. I believe it should be "meridian" instead. (tried to look up meridiem and couldn't find such a word, but didn't have time to spend a lot of effort on this)

Thx for your nice site by the way.

amd64 x86-64linux kde scim

./configure --with-tcl=/usr/lib64 --with-tk=/usr/lib64 --x-includes=/usr/X11R6/include --x-libraries=/usr/X11R6/lib64

Configured, compiled, and installed. The console modole seems ok, however, the scim can not input any character. The scim can work with vim, openoffice and other programs. Why? And the resolution?

Thanks!

Kitten is listed as a young mammal but not as a cat

In the Sense Mappings released with each version I seem to have stumbled across a discrepancy in the way the lines are ordered (I've checked three versions). I hope this hasn't been already documented somewhere because I wasn't able to find anything about it in the past reports. From what I can tell the "*.verb.mono" and "*.noun.mono" files are sorted in a strict ASCII fashion, but the "*.verb.poly" and "*.noun.poly" are sorted ignoring the punctuation (-_' etc.). Here's the quick and dirty showing this phenomenon on the command line:

prompt$ ls
2.1to3.0.noun.mono 2.1to3.0.verb.mono COPYING README
2.1to3.0.noun.poly 2.1to3.0.verb.poly INSTALL doc/

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hello..

i need yor help..

i have a big database, i want to convert it to wordNet database.
is there any tool that, i can do that conversion?

How can i do it?

thanks a lot...

In the definition of poison there is possibly a grammatical error under Verbs;

# S: (v) poison (kill by its poison) "This mushrooms can poison"


shouldn't it be "These mushrooms can poison" or "This mushroom can poison" ?

hope this helps :)

Thanks,
Darrell

dar es salaam/Dodoma: Capital status now changed
Jacques Costeau: should be Jacques Cousteau
expect: "the are expecting"
turban: not only Muslim
Tel Aviv-Yalo: should be Tel Aviv-Yafo
crazy glue: not epoxy
earnest: (circular gloss)

There are currently 117 missing reflexive pointers. These are all sense pointers (as opposed to synset pointers). 112 of them are missing "Derivationally Related" pointers and 5 are missing "Antonym" pointers. Please contact me if you are interested in the list of senses. P.S. Thank you for an amazing resource.

Tried to install WordNet 3.0 on Intel Mac OS X 10.4. Similar to bug 1134 for WordNet 2.1, make fails:

/usr/local/include/tkDecls.h:996: error: parse error before '*' token
/usr/local/include/tkDecls.h:996: error: 'Font' declared as function returning a function
/usr/local/include/tkDecls.h:998: error: parse error before '*' token

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I looked op 'Aruba' using wordnet. It says it is 'a popular island resort in the Netherlands Antilles'. This is wrong. Aruba used to be part of the Netherlands Antilles but isn't anymore since 1986. It is still part of the Kingdom of the Netherlands. FYI the Netherlands Antilles stop to exist in a few years time.

there is a probleme with the second sens of the verb muzzle when you reach the hypernym " restrain, keep, keep back, hold back" i found that this hypernym inherit from "inhibit, bottle up, suppress"and this one also inherit from " restrain, keep, keep back, hold back" so when i use the JWNL to search the hypernyms of muzzle the program stops, because he can't get an answer

You're missing an entry for the adjective "capital" as in "capital crime", "capital defendant", "capital offense", "capital murder". It relates to the possibility of the death penalty as a punishment.

This is not a defect report, but a suggestion about the data. Why not classify "spam" as a kind of "drivel", since drivel is said to encompass all worthless communication.

The Prolog file wn_s.pl has errors.

I'm using it for a computational linguistics class here at the University of Arizona.

For marine and aerial, they have the wrong number of arguments.

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Searching for the word Kaaba returns this result:

Kaaba, Caaba ((Islam) a black stone building in Mecca that is shaped like a cube and that is the most sacred Muslim pilgrim shrine; believed to have been given by Gabriel to Abraham; Muslims turn in its direction when praying),

That is wrong. I am a Muslim and I know enough to know that the Ka'aba was not given by Gabriel to Abraham: Abarham built this structure with his son Ishmail with guidance from Gabriel who was sent by god.

The Kaaba has been rebuilt a few times, from stones from this earth.

I am trying to use WordNet 2.1 with Visual Studio 2005 Express. I am getting a linker error on libc.lib. I need a version of wn.lib that is built with 2005. I need this for a project that I am doing for school, I hope that you can help.


Thanks,
Jason Joyce

I looked up the word "internship" in WordNet 3.0 (online) and found the following definition that limits it to a medical context:

"S: (n) internship (the position of a medical intern)".



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For the word curtailment --
Says:
S: (n) retrenchment, curtailment, downsizing (the reduction of expenditures in order to become financial stable)
Should say:
S: (n) retrenchment, curtailment, downsizing (the reduction of expenditures in order to become financially stable)

I downloaded 3.0 for Linux. When I compile I get the following message
(please note that this is the same as the bug 799 reported for Wordnet 2.1;
see http://wordnet.princeton.edu/cgi-bin/bugquery.pl?requested=799):

tkAppInit.c:16:16: tk.h: No such file or directory

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In the prolog version, there are exactly two word senses that don't specify sense numbers and tag counts. They are:

s(301380267,1,'aerial',s).
s(301380721,1,'marine',s).

Maybe this is also causing the other person's bug about missing 'marine'?

In the prolog distribution of WordNet (which is a great idea by the way) many (maybe all?) adverbs have duplicate entries. This isn't a disaster as long as they agree, but it is weird. Maybe there's something wrong with the construction of the prolog files?

Here's an example grep (include line numbers):

wn_s.pl:201399:s(400001740,1,'a cappella',r,1,0).

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Subject : conflict in two senses ??
Dear Sir/Madam,
I noticed the following adjective sense of 'hard' is being used only in the noun sense "hard drink". Both the senses are mentioned below.
Does the adjective sense needed to be in lexicon? If yes, please give your justification.
{01158974} S: (adj) hard, strong (being distilled rather than fermented; having a high alcoholic content) "hard liquor".
{07901587} S: (n) liquor, spirits, booze, hard drink, hard liquor, John Barleycorn, strong drink (an alcoholic beverage that is distilled rather than fermented)

Regards,
Ashish Almeida
CFILT, IIT Bombay

The defiinition for "widget" says "Meaning #1: a device that very useful for a particular job." You are missing the word "is" after "that."

The example sentence for the second definition of "dote" appears to contain a typographical error.

dote (shower with love; show excessive affection for) "Grandmother dotes on her the twins"

Grammatically, either the pronoun "her" or the definite article "the" should be omitted.


This is still present in the latest version, as well as previous versions.
http://wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=dote

Below is your definition of "shank's mare". Please note that the letter R is missing from the word you; 'tis meant to read YOUR.

you own legs; "I traveled on shank's mare"
wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn

Regards,

Jordi Grimwood

hello
after i installed WordNet 3.0 under Linux Mandriva, i get the error messages
WordNet library error: Can't open datafile(:/usr/local/WordNet-3.0/:/usr/local/WordNet-3.0/dict/data.noun)
WordNet library error: Can't open indexfile(:/usr/local/WordNet-3.0/:/usr/local/WordNet-3.0/dict/index.noun)
WordNet library error: Can't open datafile(:/usr/local/WordNet-3.0/:/usr/local/WordNet-3.0/dict/data.verb)
and so on when i query a word in the bash-shell

the files are in the right place and the permissions are set.
the WordNet browser opens but i cannot query a word

To the wordnet 2.1 for windows,the parse_index() function in the WordNet\2.1\src\lib\search.cpp has a bug.
In this function,all the ptrtok=strtok(line," \n") shoud be replaced by the ptrtok=strtok(line," ").

freethinker: a person who believes that God created the universe and then abandoned it.

free thought: the form of theological rationalism that believes in God on the basis of reason without reference to revelation.

I am not sure where you got these definitions but they are the only ones of their kind I have come across. I consider myself a freethinker and as a result of free thought I do not possess a belief in a god including the Christian one. Do some research for yourself. Check out other dictionaries or even google it. Sure, it is possible that a freethinker could come to some kind of belief in a god but the chance is small, really small. I think the vast majority if not all freethinkers (including those that do hold a belief in a god) would find these definitions highly offensive. They imply the reliance on dogma, tradition, and authority that freethinkers so eagerly aim to avoid when drawing conclusions. They also clearly state that a freethinker is a Christian. Thanks for your time.

Four synsets that are instances of noun synsets are in error, having both hypernyms and instance hypernyms. They are:
1) Enlightenment (8472590)
2) Alabama (9053185)
3) Isle of Wight (9479238)
4) Logrono (9026499)

In each case, the correction is obvious.
Thank you for all of your wonderful efforts!

Hiya,

Wordnet is missing the adjective "unsourced".

While few other dictionaries appear to include this word, as of this writing an English-language-only Google search for "unsourced" shows about 1,180,000 hits. The word appears to be particularly commonly used among Wikipedia contributors and in the business world. Its meaning is:

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"venom (toxin secreted by animals; secreted by certain snakes and poisonous insects (e.g., spiders and scorpions))"

Spiders and scorpions are arachnids, not insects.

A-theism (a lack of belief in the existence of God or gods) is an incorrect definition. The etymologically correct word is Athe-ism. The A- wasn't applied to the word Theism, the -ism was applied to the word Atheos. Just like Amoral-ism. The -ism making it a belief or doctrine.

WordNet includes one sense of the abstract noun "solipsism" and it is correct, but there is a second sense referring to extreme self-absorption and egocentrism. This second sense is commonly meant by the concrete noun "solipsist," adjective "solipsistic," and adverb "solipsistically," none of which are found in WordNet 3.0.

Please consider the noun synsets, that I have encountered recently - "basketball coach", and "tutor".
The hypernyms of the former are as following in version 3.0.
"basketball coach" isA "coach, manager, handler" isA "trainer" isA "leader" isA "person"
While the hypernyms of the latter are:
"tutor" isA "teacher" isA "educator" isA "professional" isA "adult" isA "person"

The least common subsumer for these two synsets is "person", while both seem to share more than that in common.
Perhaps, "basketball coach" (along with "baseball coach" and so forth), and "tutor" are all kind of trainers or instructors.
It seems to me that further fine graining for this branch in the hypernym-hyponym hierarchy is needed.
A similar problem occurs also in version 2.1

Thank you very much,
Vera

dear sir or madam
I typed "Tabriz" in wordnet textbox part and i see this phrase;
1. Tabriz -- (an ancient city in northwestern Iran; known for ht springs)
i am iranian and I know tabriz is one of the most cold cities n iran and doesn't have hot springs,in most of time its temperature average is below 10.
thanks,

I downloaded the WordNet 3.0 version, as I have fedora 5 running on a 64-bit x86 machine.
While installing 3.0 version, this time 'configure' and 'make' did not give any problems. But 'make install' gaver errors and stopped so I can not run WordNet. The error is as follows :
/usr/bin/install: `wnutil.3WN.html' and `/usr/local/WordNet-3.0/doc/html/wnutil.3WN.html' are the same file
make[3]: *** [install-htmlDATA] Error 1
make[3]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/WordNet-3.0/doc/html'
make[2]: *** [install-am] Error 2
make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/WordNet-3.0/doc/html'
make[1]: *** [install-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/WordNet-3.0/doc'
make: *** [install-recursive] Error 1

pls help soon.

I have a 300MHZ workstation running fedora core 5.
While installing WordNet 2.1, configure works alright, but make gives an error as follows :

stubs.c:17: error: initializer element is not computable at load time
make[2]: *** [wishwn-stubs.o] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/WordNet-2.1/src'
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/WordNet-2.1'
make: *** [all] Error 2

Please explain what this error is, and how to resolve it

The version information (which appears in the comments) in the data files has not been updated from 2.1 to 3.0.
WordNet::QueryData extracts this information from the data files and provides it via the version() method.
The WordNet::Similarity modules use this information to ensure compatibility between data files generated from different versions of WordNet.

au pair: often does childcare
splinter: small thin sharp bit or wood

cycle in hyperonyms for restrain:

S: (v) restrain, keep, keep back, hold back (keep under control; keep in check) "suppress a smile"; "Keep your temper"; "keep your cool"
direct troponym / full troponym
direct hypernym / inherited hypernym / sister term
S: (v) inhibit, bottle up, suppress (control and refrain from showing; of emotions, desires, impulses, or behavior)
direct troponym / full troponym
direct hypernym / inherited hypernym / sister term
S: (v) restrain, keep, keep back, hold back (keep under control; keep in check) "suppress a smile"; "Keep your temper"; "keep your cool"

There is information missing for the noun 'marine' in wn_s.pl:

bos@visitatori3:~/WNprolog3.0> cat wn_s.pl | head -184590 | tail -n 10
s(301379988,1,'lamented',a,1,0).

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have-to doe with
emptor?
causa?
assumption: "on the assumption that he has been injured we can infer that he will not to play"
florist's chrysanthemum:unhelpful gloss

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There seems to be some problem in hypernymy relations of few, where I think, instead of plant, wood have been placed. I have shown it by marking *.

Sincerely
Laxmi


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hi
while instaling WordNet
i am geting this problem
[root@localhost WordNet-3.0]# ./configure
checking for gcc... gcc

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