mate-dictionary
Section: User Commands (1)
Updated: Jul 11 2015
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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 dictionary 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 (<spapadim+@cs.cmu.edu>), Mike
Hughes (<mfh@psilord.com>) and Bradford Hovinen (<hovinen@udel.edu>).
Emmanuele Bassi (<ebassi@gmail.com>) rewrote it from scratch.
This manual page was originally written by Jochen Voss
<voss@mathematik.uni-kl.de>.
SEE ALSO
dict(1),
dictd(8),
http://www.dict.org/,
RFC 2229
Index
- NAME
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- SYNOPSIS
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- DESCRIPTION
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- OPTIONS
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- CONFIGURATION
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- AUTHOR
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- SEE ALSO
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