1gnome-dictionary(1)         General Commands Manual        gnome-dictionary(1)
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NAME

6       gnome-dictionary - Look up words on dictionaries
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SYNOPSIS

9       gnome-dictionary
10       gnome-dictionary [options]
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12       or  select  Dictionary from the Accessories submenu of the Applications
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DESCRIPTION

16       GNOME Dictionary provides dictionary definitions of words, using a dic‐
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19       For full documentation see the GNOME Dictionary online help.
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OPTIONS

23       --look-up word
24              Looks  up  the  specified  word using the pre-defined dictionary
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27       -s source or --source source
28              Uses the specified source for looking up words.  This  does  not
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31       -l or --list-sources
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34       -n or --no-window
35              Using  this  switch with the --look-up will print the defintions
36              found on the console without launching the GUI.
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38       --help Display help information.
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CONFIGURATION

41       All the configuration is handled using GConf.
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AUTHOR

44       GNOME Dictionary was originally written by Spiros Papadimitriou  (<spa‐
45       padim+@cs.cmu.edu>), Mike Hughes (<mfh@psilord.com>) and Bradford Hovi‐
46       nen (<hovinen@udel.edu>).
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48       Emmanuele Bassi (<ebassi@gmail.com>) rewrote it from scratch.
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50       This manual page was originally written  by  Jochen  Voss  <voss@mathe‐
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SEE ALSO

55       dict(1), dictd(8), http://www.dict.org/, RFC 2229
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