From 6c27d23e1987eedd9f773d559dd87e730773b188 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Michael Angerman <1809991+stormasm@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Wed, 9 Feb 2022 21:28:21 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] port dict.nu over to engine-q/cool_oneliners

---
 engine-q/cool_oneliners/dict.nu | 14 ++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 engine-q/cool_oneliners/dict.nu

diff --git a/engine-q/cool_oneliners/dict.nu b/engine-q/cool_oneliners/dict.nu
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..5f5aa30
--- /dev/null
+++ b/engine-q/cool_oneliners/dict.nu
@@ -0,0 +1,14 @@
+# Function querying free online English dictionary API for definition of given word(s)
+def dict [...word #word(s) to query the dictionary API but they have to make sense together like "martial law", not "cats dogs"
+] {
+	let query = ($word | str collect %20)
+  let link = (build-string 'https://api.dictionaryapi.dev/api/v2/entries/en/' ($query|str find-replace ' ' '%20'))
+  let output = (fetch $link |
+  rename word)
+  let w = ($output.word | first)
+
+  if $w == "No Definitions Found" {echo $output.word} else {echo $output |
+  get meanings.definitions |
+  select definition example
+  }
+}