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 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 (<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>.

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