{"id":701,"date":"2014-02-04T10:00:07","date_gmt":"2014-02-04T16:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/keithcchan.com\/?p=701"},"modified":"2014-02-03T23:24:46","modified_gmt":"2014-02-04T05:24:46","slug":"i-investigated-the-mac-dictionary-what-i-found-blew-my-mind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.keithcchan.com\/wordpress\/2014\/02\/i-investigated-the-mac-dictionary-what-i-found-blew-my-mind.html","title":{"rendered":"I Investigated the Mac Dictionary. What I Found Blew My Mind"},"content":{"rendered":"

As I was writing the previous post about multiple language spellchecking in Mac OS X, I wondered what if there was a similar option for the built-in dictionary. In case you didn’t know, you can right-click a selectable word, choose the first menu item (“Look Up”) and it will show a pop-up with the definition.<\/p>\n

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{ Goldin and Rouse (2000). Note that I selected a word from an image of a word, which is pretty impressive. }<\/p><\/div>\n

Right-clicking on a Spanish word yielded no results, so I went straight to the source: the Dictionary app. Select Preferences from the Dictionary menu in the app and you get a rather impressive list of dictionaries to use:<\/p>\n

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Checking the dictionary you want not only enables it in the app, but it instantly makes the right-click pop-up work:<\/p>\n

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{ Benfer et al. (2007) }<\/p><\/div>\n

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Granted, the app has a purely Spanish dictionary, and not a Spanish-English dictionary, but it’s a start. The East Asian dictionaries do give definitions in English.<\/p>\n

Next: document management!<\/p>\n

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References<\/strong><\/p>\n

Benfer Jr, R. A., Ojeda, B., Duncan, N. A., Adkins, L. R., Lude\u00c3\u00b1a, H., Vallejos, M., . . . Villarreal, G. (2012). La tradici\u00c3\u00b3n religioso-astron\u00c3\u00b3mica en buena vista. Bolet\u00c3\u00adn De Arqueolog\u00c3\u00ada PUCP<\/i>, (11), 53-102. Retrieved from Google Scholar.<\/p>\n

Goldin, C., & Rouse, C. E. (2000). Orchestrating impartiality : The impact of “blind” auditions on female musicians. The American Economic Review<\/i>, 90<\/i>(04), 715-741.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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