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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  pro-
	      gram.

       --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 dou-
       ble-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 infor-
       mation consult the program help by pressing F1.

SEE ALSO
       agrep(1), egrep(1), ispell(1), ding(1).
       https://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).

Debian Project			  October 2005				DING(1)
