mate-dictionary(1) 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]>.