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 (<[email protected]>), Mike Hughes (<[email protected]>) and Bradford Hovinen (<[email protected]>).
Emmanuele Bassi (<[email protected]>) rewrote it from scratch.
This manual page was originally written by Jochen Voss <[email protected]>.