gnome-dictionary(1) [redhat man page]

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

NAME

       gnome-dictionary - GNOME client for MIT dictionary server

SYNOPSIS

       gnome-dictionary

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

DESCRIPTION

       GNOME  Dictionary  provides  dictionary	definitions  of  words, using any server that supports the dict protocol, an Internet standard for
       client/server dictionary applications.

       For full documentation see the GNOME Dictionary online help.

AUTHOR

       GNOME Dictionary was written by Spiros Papadimitriou (<spapadim+@cs.cmu.edu>), Mike Hughes (<mfh@psilord.com>) and Bradford Hovinen (<hovi-
       nen@udel.edu>).

       This manual page was written by Jochen Voss <voss@mathematik.uni-kl.de>.

SEE ALSO

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

gnome-utils 2.0.0						    Aug 8 2002						       gnome-dictionary(1)

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

NAME

       gnome-dictionary - Look up words on dictionaries

SYNOPSIS

       gnome-dictionary
       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

       --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.

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

       -S strategy or --strategy strategy
	      Use the specified strategy for looking up words. This does not affect the global settings.

       --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 Hov-
       inen (<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

gnome-utils 2.13.4						    Jan 2 2005						       gnome-dictionary(1)