mate-dictionary(1) General Commands Manual mate-dictionary(1)
NAME
mate-dictionary - Look up words on dictionaries
SYNOPSIS
mate-dictionary
mate-dictionary [options]
or select Dictionary from the Accessories submenu of the Applications
menu.
DESCRIPTION
MATE Dictionary provides dictionary definitions of words, using a dic-
tionary source.
For full documentation see the MATE Dictionary online help.
OPTIONS
--look-up word
Looks up the specified word using the pre-defined dictionary
source.
--match word
Matches one or more words using the pre-defined dictionary
source.
-s source or --source source
Uses the specified source for looking up words. This does not
affect the global settings.
-n or --no-window
Using this switch with the --look-up will print the definitions
found on the console without launching the GUI.
-D database or --database database
Use the specified database for looking up words. This does not
affect the global settings.
--help Display help information.
CONFIGURATION
All the configuration is handled using GSettings.
AUTHOR
MATE Dictionary was originally written by Spiros Papadimitriou (<spa-
padim+@cs.cmu.edu>), Mike Hughes (<mfh@psilord.com>) and Bradford Hovi-
nen (<hovinen@udel.edu>).
Emmanuele Bassi (<ebassi@gmail.com>) rewrote it from scratch.
This manual page was originally written by Jochen Voss <voss@mathe-
matik.uni-kl.de>.
SEE ALSO
dict(1), dictd(8), http://www.dict.org/, RFC 2229
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