$word = "book";
// initialise the session, this time with no URL
$ch = curl_init();
// Set the URL, which includes $word, and is of the dict protocol
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, "dict://dict.org/d:($word)");
// Return the output from the cURL session rather than displaying in the browser.
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
//Execute the session, returning the results to $definition, and close.
$definition = curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);
//display the results - I'll leave the formatting to you
print "Definition of $definition: $definition";
var_dump($definition);