{"id":4719,"date":"2013-01-07T02:19:29","date_gmt":"2013-01-07T02:19:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zerokidz.com\/ideas\/?p=4719"},"modified":"2014-06-17T23:52:57","modified_gmt":"2014-06-18T03:52:57","slug":"merriam-webster-api","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reactivemusic.net\/?p=4719","title":{"rendered":"Merriam Webster API"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"lead\">Dictionary and Thesaurus.<\/p>\n<p>Get a developer API key from here:\u00a0<a style=\"line-height: 1.6;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.dictionaryapi.com\">http:\/\/www.dictionaryapi.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"line-height: 1.6;\">example of a request to the Thesaurus API<\/span><\/p>\n<pre class=\"brush: actionscript3; gutter: true\">curl http:\/\/www.dictionaryapi.com\/api\/v1\/references\/thesaurus\/xml\/cheese?key=ee2466d2-07a0-40af-b959-abcdeb125f0ca<\/pre>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the XML response &#8211; filled with synonyms:<\/p>\n<pre class=\"brush: xml; gutter: true\">&lt;?xml version=&quot;1.0&quot; encoding=&quot;utf-8&quot; ?&gt;\r\n&lt;entry_list version=&quot;1.0&quot;&gt;\r\n\t&lt;entry id=&quot;cheese&quot;&gt;&lt;term&gt;&lt;hw&gt;cheese&lt;\/hw&gt;&lt;\/term&gt;&lt;fl&gt;noun&lt;\/fl&gt;&lt;sens&gt;&lt;mc&gt;that which is of low quality or worth&lt;\/mc&gt;&lt;vi&gt;you wouldn&#039;t believe the &lt;it&gt;cheese&lt;\/it&gt; that the movie studio puts out&lt;\/vi&gt;&lt;syn&gt;cheese, crapola [&lt;it&gt;slang&lt;\/it&gt;], dreck (&lt;it&gt;also&lt;\/it&gt; drek), muck, rubbish, sleaze, slop, slush, trash, tripe&lt;\/syn&gt;&lt;rel&gt;camp, kitsch; claptrap, humbug, nonsense; bomb, clinker, clunker, dud, lemon, stinker, turkey; mess, muddle, shambles&lt;\/rel&gt;&lt;\/sens&gt;&lt;\/entry&gt;\r\n\t&lt;entry id=&quot;big cheese&quot;&gt;&lt;term&gt;&lt;hw&gt;big cheese&lt;\/hw&gt;&lt;\/term&gt;&lt;fl&gt;noun&lt;\/fl&gt;&lt;sens&gt;&lt;mc&gt;one of high position or importance within a group&lt;\/mc&gt;&lt;vi&gt;thinks he&#039;s a &lt;it&gt;big cheese&lt;\/it&gt; just because he&#039;s got a business card&lt;\/vi&gt;&lt;syn&gt;big, big boy, big cheese, bigfoot, biggie, big gun, big leaguer, big-timer, big wheel, bigwig, fat cat, heavy, heavy hitter, heavyweight, high-muck-a-muck (&lt;it&gt;or&lt;\/it&gt; high-muckety-muck), honcho, kahuna, kingfish, kingpin, major leaguer, muckety-muck (&lt;it&gt;also&lt;\/it&gt; muck-a-muck &lt;it&gt;or&lt;\/it&gt; mucky-muck), nabob, nawab, nibs, nob [&lt;it&gt;chiefly British&lt;\/it&gt;], pooh-bah (&lt;it&gt;also&lt;\/it&gt; poo-bah), wheel&lt;\/syn&gt;&lt;rel&gt;baron, czar (&lt;it&gt;also&lt;\/it&gt; tsar &lt;it&gt;or&lt;\/it&gt; tzar), king, lion, magnate, mogul, prince, tycoon; VIP&lt;\/rel&gt;&lt;near&gt;inferior, subordinate, underling; mediocrity, obscurity&lt;\/near&gt;&lt;ant&gt;lightweight, nobody, nonentity, nothing, shrimp, twerp, whippersnapper, zero, zilch&lt;\/ant&gt;&lt;\/sens&gt;&lt;\/entry&gt;\r\n&lt;\/entry_list&gt;<\/pre>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dictionary and Thesaurus. Get a developer API key from here:\u00a0http:\/\/www.dictionaryapi.com example of a request to the Thesaurus API curl http:\/\/www.dictionaryapi.com\/api\/v1\/references\/thesaurus\/xml\/cheese?key=ee2466d2-07a0-40af-b959-abcdeb125f0ca Here&#8217;s the XML response &#8211; filled with synonyms: &lt;?xml version=&quot;1.0&quot; encoding=&quot;utf-8&quot; ?&gt; &lt;entry_list version=&quot;1.0&quot;&gt; &lt;entry id=&quot;cheese&quot;&gt;&lt;term&gt;&lt;hw&gt;cheese&lt;\/hw&gt;&lt;\/term&gt;&lt;fl&gt;noun&lt;\/fl&gt;&lt;sens&gt;&lt;mc&gt;that which is of low quality or worth&lt;\/mc&gt;&lt;vi&gt;you wouldn&#039;t believe the &lt;it&gt;cheese&lt;\/it&gt; that the movie studio puts out&lt;\/vi&gt;&lt;syn&gt;cheese, crapola [&lt;it&gt;slang&lt;\/it&gt;], &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/reactivemusic.net\/?p=4719\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Merriam Webster API&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[143],"tags":[161,46,6,25,12],"class_list":["post-4719","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-interactive-media-art","tag-api","tag-connections","tag-interactive-media","tag-programming","tag-web-development"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Merriam Webster API - reactive music<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/reactivemusic.net\/?p=4719\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Merriam Webster API - reactive music\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Dictionary and Thesaurus. 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