mate-dictionary - Look up words on dictionaries

MATEDictionary 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>.

       All the configuration is handled using GSettings.

MATEDictionary provides dictionary definitions of words, using a dictionary source.

       For full documentation see the MATEDictionary online help.

       mate-dictionary - Look up words on dictionaries

--look-upword
              Looks up the specified word using the pre-defined dictionary source.

       --matchword
              Matches one or more words using the pre-defined dictionary source.

       -ssource or --sourcesource
              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.

       -Ddatabase or --databasedatabase
              Use the specified database for looking up words. This does not affect the global settings.

       --help Display help information.

dict(1), dictd(8), http://www.dict.org/, RFC2229

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mate-dictionarymate-dictionary[options]

       or select Dictionary from the Accessories submenu of the Applications menu.