NAME

       translate - looks up for words in a dictionary

SYNOPSIS

       translate [options] words

DESCRIPTION

       translate  looks up for words in a dictionary and translates them.  It can handle multiple
       dictionaries and charsets.  It comes with an english-german  dictionary  and  is  able  to
       translate in both directions.

OPTIONS

       -n     non-interactive (don't prompt if no matches found)

       -i     invers lookup (from second to first language)

       -l     languages to translate between

       -v     display version and exit

       -w     searches only whole words

       -h display help

EXAMPLE

       translate -l en-de simplest

SEE ALSO

       xtranslate

FILES

       translate  preferred  language  and  is  stored  in /etc/translate.conf You can store your
       private configuration file in ~/.translate.  If there are no options in the commandline it
       uses the default values de-en.

       It can also create a private dictionary in ~/.translate

AUTHOR

       Jochem  Huhmann <jochem@revier.com> wrote translate.  This manual page was written for the
       Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others).

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