gnome-dictionary

gnome-dictionary(1)                                        gnome-dictionary(1)



NAME
       gnome-dictionary - Look up words on dictionaries

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 dic‐
       tionary 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.

       -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.

CONFIGURATION
       All the configuration is handled using GConf.

AUTHOR
       GNOME Dictionary was originally written by Spiros Papadimitriou  (       padim+@cs.cmu.edu>), Mike Hughes () and Bradford Hovi‐
       nen ().

       Emmanuele Bassi () rewrote it from scratch.

       This manual page was originally written  by  Jochen  Voss         matik.uni-kl.de>.


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



gnome-utils 2.13.4                Jan 2 2005               gnome-dictionary(1)