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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).