NAME

       ding - dictionary lookup program for Unix

SYNOPSIS

       ding [options] [phrase]

DESCRIPTION

       ding  is  a  dictionary lookup program for X Windows/Unix. It comes with a German-English dictionary with
       about 345,000 entries.

       It is based on Tk version >= 8.3 and uses the agrep(1) or egrep(1) tools for searching.

       In addition to this ding can also search using ispell(1) and dict(1).

       It has many configuration options, such as search preferences, interface language  (English  or  German),
       colors. It has history and help functions and comes with useful key and mouse bindings for quick and easy
       lookups.

       If you enter some word or phrase as command line argument, ding will start up with a translation of  this
       word/phrase.

OPTIONS

       -x, --selection
              Start searching for selected word (X selection).

       -m, --mini
              Start with minimal size (search form only).

       -r, --remote
              Start search in an already running program.

       -R, --remote-new
              Start search in an already running program or start a new program.

       --noconf
              Do not save preferences

       -D #, --debug #
              Start with debug output, # = number (1..15).

USAGE

       It's  very  simple:  Start  ding  (via  KDE menu "Tools" or via command line), type in search word, press
       ENTER, read results. Search further by double-clicking a word, or select a word  in  another  window  and
       drop  it  by  clicking  with  mouse  button 2 over the "ding window". For further information consult the
       program help by pressing F1.

SEE ALSO

       agrep(1), egrep(1), ispell(1), ding(1).
       http://www.tu-chemnitz.de/~fri/ding/
       /usr/share/doc/ding/html/index.html

AUTHOR

       ding was written by Frank Richter <frank.richter@hrz.tu-chemnitz.de>.

       This manual page was written by Roland Rosenfeld <roland@spinnaker.de>, for the Debian  GNU/Linux  system
       (but may be used by others).