NAME
gnome-dictionary - Look up words on dictionaries
SYNOPSIS
I gnome-dictionary
I 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
I --look-up word
Looks up the specified word using the pre-defined dictionary source.
I -s source or --source source
Uses the specified source for looking up words. This does not affect the
global settings.
R -l or --list-sources
Lists all the sources available.
R -n or --no-window
Using this switch with the --look-up will print the defintions 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),
R http://www.dict.org/ ,
RFC 2229