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

NAME
     mate-dictionary - 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 dictio-
     nary 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  af-
	    fect 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  af-
	    fect the global settings.

     --help
	    Display help information.

CONFIGURATION
     All the configuration is handled using GSettings.

AUTHOR
     MATE  Dictionary  was  originally	written  by  Spiros Papadimitriou (<spa-
     padim+@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@mathe-
     matik.uni-kl.de>.

SEE ALSO
     dict(1), dictd(8), http://www.dict.org/, RFC 2229

mate-utils 1.10.2		   Jul 11 2015		      mate-dictionary(1)

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