1mate-dictionary(1) General Commands Manual mate-dictionary(1)
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6 mate-dictionary - Look up words on dictionaries
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10 mate-dictionary [options]
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12 or select Dictionary from the Accessories submenu of the Applications
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16 MATE Dictionary provides dictionary definitions of words, using a dic‐
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23 --look-up word
24 Looks up the specified word using the pre-defined dictionary
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27 --match word
28 Matches one or more words using the pre-defined dictionary
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31 -s source or --source source
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39 -D database or --database database
40 Use the specified database for looking up words. This does not
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43 --help Display help information.
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49 MATE Dictionary was originally written by Spiros Papadimitriou (<spa‐
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53 Emmanuele Bassi (<ebassi@gmail.com>) rewrote it from scratch.
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60 dict(1), dictd(8), http://www.dict.org/, RFC 2229
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