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gnome-dictionary(1) |
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gnome-dictionary − Look up words on dictionaries
gnome-dictionary
gnome-dictionary [options]
or select Dictionary from the Accessories submenu of the Applications menu.
GNOME Dictionary provides dictionary definitions of words, using a dictionary source.
For full documentation see the GNOME Dictionary online help.
−−look−up word
Looks up the specified word 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.
−l or −−list−sources
Lists all the sources available.
−n or −−no−window
Using this switch with the −−look−up will print the definitions found on the console without launching the GUI.
−−help |
Display help information. |
All the configuration is handled using GConf.
GNOME 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
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