tip+tricks: fast dictionary. fast thesaurus. Right click on any word★ for a drop-down dictionary and thesaurus!
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
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
★most of your applications are dictionary-enabled
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