.\" mate-dictionary.1 - a online dictionary client .\" Copyright 2005 Emmanuele Bassi .\" Copyright 2001 Jochen Voss .TH mate-dictionary 1 "Jan 2 2005" "mate-utils 2.13.4" .SH NAME mate-dictionary \- Look up words on dictionaries .SH SYNOPSIS .nf .BI mate-dictionary .br .BI mate-dictionary " [options]" .fi .sp or select .B Dictionary from the .B Accessories submenu of the Applications menu. .SH DESCRIPTION .B MATE Dictionary provides dictionary definitions of words, using a dictionary source. For full documentation see the .B MATE Dictionary online help. .SH OPTIONS .TP .BI \-\-look\-up " word" Looks up the specified word using the pre-defined dictionary source. .TP .BI \-s " source\fR or " \-\-source " source" Uses the specified source for looking up words. This does not affect the global settings. .TP .BR \-l " or " \-\-list\-sources Lists all the sources available. .TP .BR \-n " or " \-\-no\-window Using this switch with the \-\-look\-up will print the definitions found on the console without launching the GUI. .TP .B \-\-help Display help information. .SH CONFIGURATION All the configuration is handled using Gsettings. .SH AUTHOR .B 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>. .SH SEE ALSO .BR dict (1), .BR dictd (8), .BR http://www.dict.org/ , .B RFC 2229