findByMeaningfunction

Words found by what they mean in English, the best answers first. The index holds, for each English term, the readings of twenty words: up to ten whose gloss is exactly the term (drink is the first gloss of 飲む, "to drink"), the commonest first, then the commonest that merely have it (every word JMdict ranks has all of its terms; a word it does not rank, only those of its first gloss), so limit words cost the term's piece, about 15 kB gzipped, and at most that many pieces of the dictionary.

A text of several words finds the words whose glosses hold them one after the other (the index has every pair of terms that follow each other in the gloss of a word JMdict ranks, and no more). The words are in the mode asked for, and the block and allow lists are laid over them, as for loadWords. Words every gloss has (to, the, a) are left out of the text. A piece that cannot be fetched rejects with a WordsLoadError.

import { findByMeaning } from "@johnmorrisdotca/jisho/words";

function findByMeaning(text: string, options?: FindOptions): Promise<Word[]>

import { findByMeaning } from "@johnmorrisdotca/jisho/words";

const found = await findByMeaning("water", { limit: 5 });
console.log(found.map((one) => `${one.written} ${one.meaning}`)); // ["水 water; fluid; ...", ...]

[
  '水 water (esp. cool or cold); fluid (esp. in an animal tissue)',
  '水分 water, liquid, fluid',
  "水上 on the water, aquatic; waterside, water's edge",
  '注ぐ to pour (into); to sprinkle on (from above)',
  'お水 water, (drinking) water, (glass of) water'
]