GNOME-DICTIONARY(1)

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💖 GNOME-DICTIONARY(1) 💖

ok so real talk — this is the gnome-dictionary page from the User Commands manual, and it is genuinely the easiest glow-up in the whole GNOME lineup. like, you want to look up a word? bestie. that's it. that's the whole vibe. 🦋

✨ NAME ✨

gnome-dictionary — go look up words in online dictionaries. literally that's the job. 🎀

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

gnome-dictionary [[--look-up WORD] | [--match WORD]] [--source NAME]
                 [--database NAME] [--strategy NAME] [--help]

look at her. she's beautiful. yes, --look-up and --match are in their own little bracket group together, so it's one or the other, iykyk 👑

💜 DESCRIPTION 💜

gnome-dictionary looks up words in online dictionaries using the DICT protocol. that's the whole thing! you give it a word, it goes and finds the word, you feel smart. no cap. 🔥

🫶 OPTIONS 🫶

  • --look-up WORD — looks up the specified WORD using the default dictionary source, or the one you specified with the --source command line option. so if you didn't pick a source, it just uses the default one, and honestly? respect. ✨
  • --match WORD — lists all the entries in the dictionary source that match the specified WORD. not just one entry — all the matches. she's thorough. 💅
  • --source=NAME, -s NAME — specifies the dictionary source to be used for looking up or matching words. translation: which dictionary are we even talking to. 💖
  • --database=NAME, -D NAME — specifies the database in the dictionary source to be used for looking up or matching words. yes, sources have databases inside them, it's lore 🧚
  • --strategy=NAME, -S NAME — specifies the matching strategy in the dictionary source to be used for looking up or matching words. this is the how of the matching, and it only really matters when you're matching, yk? 🦋
  • --help — shows the help. classic. iconic. we love her. ⭐

👑 AUTHOR 👑

Emmanuele Bassi

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Copyright © 2012 Emmanuele Bassi

ngl bestie, every single one of these flags is about pointing at the right dictionary before you yell a word at it. source, database, strategy — that's the holy trinity here. don't stress, just pass the ones you actually need. 🙈

ok that's the page!! this one comes to you from GNOME (yes, the GNOME, no date given, she's timeless 💀), part of the GNOME-DICTIONARY(1) manual — go forth and look up words, you gorgeous nerd, mwah 🫶💜🎀

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