Sending information to a website

[Alex Bryan]

Okay, so what I want to do is connect to dictionary.com and send the  
website a word, and later receive the definition. But for now, I want  
to focus on sending the word. A good guy from this mailing list said I  
should look into the code and then figure out what the word you want  
to be defined is called by the website. In other words, what is the  
name of the word the user inputs. Okay, so using the firebug extension  
I got the code that the search field on the website uses. here is that  
code.

<div id="search">
	<form onsubmit="return formcheck();" action="/search" method="get"  
name="search_form">
		<input id="search-terms" class="text" type="text" maxlength="256"  
value="" name="q"/>

Anyway, not to get to complicated. How would any of you suggest I send  
this word to the site. While bearing in mind that I will need to  
return it if it matters for this step.