Look Up Term on dictionary.com

getDefinition() sends a query to dictionary.com to look up the definition of a word.

This script was posted by Eric A. Folley to the Frontier Community mailing list. It's actually a straightforward use of the webbrowser verbs:

on getDefinition (term = "") << By Eric A. Folley if term == "" frontier.bringToFront () if not dialog.ask ("Enter a word or phrase:", @term) return (false) webbrowser.bringtofront () webbrowser.openURL ("http://www.dictionary.com/cgi-bin/dict.pl?db=*&term=" + term)

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