gnome-dictionary(1) General Commands Manual 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 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.
--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.
-D database or --database database
Use the specified database for looking up words. This does not affect the global settings.
-S strategy or --strategy strategy
Use the specified strategy for looking up words. This does not affect the global settings.
--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 Hov-
inen (<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
gnome-utils 2.13.4 Jan 2 2005 gnome-dictionary(1)
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gnome-dictionary - look up words in an online dictionary
SYNOPSIS
gnome-dictionary [gnome-std-options]
DESCRIPTION
The Dictionary application enables you to look up an online dictionary for the definitions and correct spelling of words.
OPTIONS
The following options are supported:
gnome-std-options Standard options available for use with most GNOME applications. See gnome-std-options(5) for more information.
OPERANDS
None.
EXAMPLES
Example 1: Launching Dictionary
example% gnome-dictionary
EXIT STATUS
The following exit values are returned:
0 Application exited successfully
>0 Application exited with failure
FILES
The following files are used by this application:
/usr/bin/gnome-dictionary Executable for Dictionary.
ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
| ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
|Availability |SUNWgnome-dictionary |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
|Interface stability |External |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
SEE ALSO
Dictionary Manual
Latest version of the GNOME Desktop User Guide for your platform.
gnome-std-options(5)NOTES
Written by Glynn Foster, Sun Microsystems Inc., 2003.
SunOS 5.10 30 Sep 2003 gnome-dictionary(1)
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