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
