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mate-dictionary(1) FreeBSD General Commands Manual mate-dictionary(1) NAME mate-dictionary - Look up words on dictionaries SYNOPSIS mate-dictionary mate-dictionary [options] or select Dictionary from the Accessories submenu of the Applications menu. DESCRIPTION MATE Dictionary provides dictionary definitions of words, using a dictionary source. For full documentation see the MATE 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. -n or --no-window Using this switch with the --look-up will print the definitions found on the console without launching the GUI. -D database or --database database Use the specified database for looking up words. This does not affect the global settings. --help Display help information. CONFIGURATION All the configuration is handled using GSettings. AUTHOR 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>. SEE ALSO dict(1), dictd(8), http://www.dict.org/, RFC 2229