Take a look at the picture to the right. There's a great preference you can set in your Mac's Dictionary application to achieve that drop-down definition and thesaurus menu. With your Dictionary preference set up properly, you activate it's powerful functions seamlessly, while staying in your current application.
I especially like to use the thesaurus. Gets me out of my rut and makes presentations more compelling.
It's easy to activate that drop-down preference:
- launch the Dictionary application (in the Applications folder on your hard drive)
- go up to the top left, click on Dictionary, choose Preferences
- in the Contextual Menu section at the bottom, choose Open Dictionary Panel
- close the Preferences and quit the Dictionary application
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Now try it out!
- try it out by right-clicking on a word and choose Look Up in Dictionary
- to make the definition go away, simply click away from the word that you were looking up
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★most of your applications are dictionary-enabled
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