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Dictionary.Com App Plus Specialty DictionariesI could drag it to the left side of the Dock to make it a little more easily accessible if I want to.Now the basics are pretty simple. Just the first couple letters is all I need and I can launch it that way. I'm going to do Command Space and search for dictionary. You can launch it by using Spotlight. It has a lot of different functionality. If an app is on the Mac App Store, it is in one of the 21 categories that Apple has listed.So when it comes to the Dictionary app on your Mac there are some users that don't know it's there and others that take it for granted. Get microsoft access for a macNow whether you're looking at dictionary definitions or in the Thesaurus you can click on most things in here. So you search for a word and then go to that and then get different synonyms for it. Of particular use is the Thesaurus or synonym finder. You probably see some others here as well. So you have the regular dictionary which will give you a definition. Now you should see here a list of dictionaries that you have enabled. For instance if you hear some term and you're not sure what it is you can look it up here and find out that definition according to Apple. It's very useful for looking up things that have to do with Apple computers and devices. So you could look it up in the dictionary but clicking on Apple will give you a definition from a custom Apple dictionary. Apple is particularly useful if you want to look up a tech term. You can see Apple and Wikipedia. You can switch between dictionaries and keep the same word.Now what about these other dictionaries here. Then you're going to see things like Dictionary, Thesaurus, Wikipedia and anything you've got here. Not something stored on your computer.So you can view more than one dictionary source at a time by selecting All. So you're getting the most up-to-date versions. It's actually pulling these definitions live from Wikipedia. So instead of going to wikipedia.word search wikipedia you can do it right here in the Dictionary app. So here in the US I have the New Oxford American Dictionary for American English. The ones that you have selected at the beginning depends on your country. You're going to have a lot of these that come installed on your Mac. You can set which dictionaries you've got by going to Dictionary Preferences which is basically a big list of dictionaries. For Wikipedia I can select language. For instance I can choose the type of pronunciation marks that are shown in the definition here for the American Dictionary. Notice that when I select some of these there are options. So put your most important source first. When you select All you're going to get them in the order that they appear here. So now I've switched Wikipedia and Apple. You can drag and drop anyone of these to change the order. The order here is important. You could see now that dictionary as well. So, for instance, I can Control click here and you could see I could select Look Up in New Tab or Window. You also can open up links in New Tabs or Windows. So you can go back to the previous definition after exploring a new one. There are also Forward and Backward buttons just like in a web browser. If it's too small for you to read you can make it larger and you can also make it smaller. I also have a Plus button here to open up even more tabs.Now if you don't understand these cryptic little pronunciation guides here you also can have your Mac speak the word to you. I can even go to File and start a New Window or New Tab without actually clicking on another word. So I can move them around. You control these tabs just like tabs in any other app. ![]() This is from the Dictionary app but it appears in a separate window. You're going to get this window that gives you the dictionary definition. So you could select a word and then Control click on it and select Look Up. One is to simply look up a word. So it looks like the pronunciations can be pretty trusted.There are several other ways to access the Dictionary without even opening the Dictionary app. This one it gets right as well. ![]() You can see it's the definition from the Dictionary app. Now you can just use the word and it should look it up and give you a definition here. Command Space to bring up Spotlight. This will actually go right to the Dictionary app so it's different than the standard Look Up shortcut which opens up that special window.Now you can also use Spotlight to look up words. It also appears under the Application Menu, Services, Searching. Now when I select a word I can try to use this. ![]() So here I have the dictionary selected. You actually have that with some of the dictionaries here. Things about languages and history and all sorts of things. Or the History of English. So I could jump to things like the Key to Pronunciations for instance. If I do Go, Front/Back Matter it actually takes me to a list of all of this information from that dictionary. This will open up the Home Folder Library Dictionary Folder. But if you do find one the way to add it is to go to File, then Open Dictionaries folder. Now they are kind of difficult to find and sometimes you find ones that just don't work because they are other formats as well that call themselves dictionary formats. You can actually find them online and add them. It will use any standard dictionary file. So now I can look up a word and go to this translation dictionary and get a translation there. I'll select that and now you could see it in here. There it is all the way at the bottom. Now when I go to Preferences I should be able to find that in here. Now I'm going to Quit the Dictionary app and run it again. So for instance here I've got one that translates from English to Esperanto. Cleaning your dictionary up a bit. So that will eliminate some words from the dictionary that are considered explicit.
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