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 dictionary 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 (<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