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mate-dictionary(1) FreeBSD General Commands Manual mate-dictionary(1)

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 (<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>.

dict(1), dictd(8), http://www.dict.org/, RFC 2229
Jul 11 2015 mate-utils 1.10.2

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