SYNOPSIS
gnome-dictionary
gnome-dictionary [options]
or select Dictionary from the Accessories submenu of the Applications menu.
DESCRIPTION
GNOME Dictionary provides dictionary definitions of words, using a dictionary source.For full documentation see the GNOME 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.
- -D database or --database database
- Use the specified database for looking up words. This does not affect the global settings.
- -S strategy or --strategy strategy
- Use the specified strategy for looking up words. This does not affect the global settings.
- --help
- Display help information.
CONFIGURATION
All the configuration is handled using GConf.AUTHOR
GNOME 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]>.