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I like CMD + CTRL + D while hover your cursor over any word in a Cocoa app. This brings up the dictionary entry for that word. You can also access the Thesaurus
by nirmal 18y ago
I like CMD + CTRL + D while hover your cursor over any word in a Cocoa app. This brings up the dictionary entry for that word. You can also access the Thesaurus this way and click "More..." to get the full Dictionary app to load.
Very useful when reading long academic papers outside of my field.
- GHFigs 18y agoIf you hold Cmd+Ctl after that, you can mouse over other words and the panel will follow. Also, for those that like the panel but can't always remember the shortcut, in the Dictionary app's preferences you can set the "Look Up in Dictionary" context menu item to open as a panel instead of opening the app. Having a system-wide Dictionary is something I would not have thought anywhere as valuable as it has turned out to be.
- nickb 18y agoI use this all the time. Incidentally, if you open up the Dictionary app itself, you have access to complete Wikipedia as well. I really like the way Apple formats Wikipedia's pages... they're much cleaner than Wikipedia.org. And yes, the pages are current... it's just that Dictionary app uses a different CSS sheet.