mate-dictionary - Look up words on dictionaries

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mate-dictionary − Look up words on dictionaries

mate-dictionary
mate-dictionary [options]

or select Dictionary from the Accessories submenu of the Applications menu.

MATE Dictionary provides dictionary definitions of words, using a dictionary source.

For full documentation see the MATE Dictionary online help.

−−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.

All the configuration is handled using GSettings.

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]>.