[boffinAudio]

Excellent project, and like many here I have also considered writing such a dictionary app for my own personal purposes - precisely because nothing out there does what I really want: give me the ability to easily change dictionary databases and work with the entire corpus in productive ways.

For example, I would LOVE to have a dictionary app that allows me to paste in some text, and have it build a custom dictionary that defines every single word in that text - with the option to do it recursively so that the user ends up with a dictionary containing all the definitions for all the words in the dictionary - that is, the user can construct a complete dictionary, rather than a partial one, for any particular text - which, when used with the text, will allow the user to understand any word in the original text, plus any they encounter in the definitions themselves.

This would be immensely useful for technical documentation writers and other authors for whom it is necessary to use uncommon terms.

Anyway, off to parse the rest of the thread to discover everyone elses' dictionary projects before I .. start my own .. ;)