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Nigant
A Thesaurus for the Terminal
Etymology
Nigant
comes the Sanskrit word निघण्टु
(Nighaṇṭu), meaning a glossary or a partial lexicon.
Usage
with Cargo
You can install Nigant
using Cargo
.
Nigant
relies on the Oxford Developer API. Generate your API ID
& API KEY
, and place it in a nigant.ini
file as NIGANT_APP_ID
& NIGANT_APP_KEY
.
$ cat nigant.ini
NIGANT_APP_ID=<YOUR_APP_ID>
NIGANT_APP_KEY=<YOUR_APP_KEY>
$ cargo install nigant
$ nigant <word>
by Building
You can build Nigant
from source-code before use. Refer section on Building for build instructions. Generate your API ID
& API KEY
, and place it in a nigant.ini
file as NIGANT_APP_ID
& NIGANT_APP_KEY
.
$ cat nigant.ini
NIGANT_APP_ID=<YOUR_APP_ID>
NIGANT_APP_KEY=<YOUR_APP_KEY>
$ ./target/release/nigant <word>
Example
$ nigant pastiche
pastiche
Definitions:
- an artistic work in a style that imitates that of another work, artist, or period
- imitate the style of (an artist or work)
Synonyms:
imitation, parody, take-off, parody, take off, burlesque, pastiche, make fun of
Etymology:
- late 19th century: from French, from Italian pasticcio, based on late Latin pasta‘paste’
Building
Nigant
is written in Rust, so you'll need to grab a Rust installation in order to compile it. In general, Nigant
tracks the latest stable release of the Rust compiler.
To build Nigant
:
$ git clone https://github.com/twinair/nigant
$ cd nigant
$ cargo build --release
Dependencies
~19–33MB
~572K SLoC