gnome-dictionary(1)gnome-dictionary(1)NAMEgnome-dictionary - Look up words on dictionaries
SYNOPSISgnome-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 dic‐
tionary 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 (<spa‐
padim+@cs.cmu.edu>), Mike Hughes (<mfh@psilord.com>) and Bradford Hovi‐
nen (<hovinen@udel.edu>).
Emmanuele Bassi (<ebassi@gmail.com>) rewrote it from scratch.
This manual page was originally written by Jochen Voss <voss@mathe‐
matik.uni-kl.de>.
SEE ALSOdict(1), dictd(8), http://www.dict.org/, RFC 2229
gnome-utils 2.13.4 Jan 2 2005 gnome-dictionary(1)