There’s a fine collection of freeware dictionaries on clasqm’s virtual home page. Some other dictionaries offer other options, such as the system for indicating pronunciation, and display orientation.Īlthough there are other commercial dictionary apps, and some apps which work with the Dictionary app itself, I’m not aware of any commercial dictionaries which extend the Dictionary app. Note that Wikipedia is available in many different languages too: choose your options from the lower section when Wikipedia is selected above. There’s even a menu command in the Dictionary app which opens the latter folder for you in the Finder, to make this simpler.Īpple offers an extensive set covering quite a few languages and subjects, which you can select from and order in its Preferences dialog. Local dictionaries, which must be in Apple’s standard DICT format, can be installed in /Library/Dictionaries for all users, or in ~/Library/Dictionaries for just the current user.
It also provides access to internet sources such as Wikipedia, which are pulled in and rejigged for Dictionary’s interface using Java and style sheets (CSS).Īlthough you can add local dictionaries, there doesn’t appear to be any way of adding online sources, other than those provided for in Dictionary’s Preferences. For local dictionaries, which are indexed and compiled into DICT format, it searches and loads entries from local XML pages. These include ⌃⌘D (control-command-D), three-finger tap on a Trackpad, drag and drop, the Services menu, the Finder contextual menu, dict:/// in a browser, and Spotlight search.ĭictionary combines two functions.
There’s also a multitude of different ways in which you can look words up in Dictionary.
The great advantages of Dictionary are that most of its sources are stored locally, and that they’re reputable and completely free. It’s quite an old corner of macOS, dating back to 10.4 in 2005, and for many may seem a relic long superseded by online services. The WordFinder section of word lists has been fully revised and reorganized with its own quick-reference index and includes topics from clothes and food, to medicine and music, with new lists of foreign words and phrases, archaic words, imitative words, British and American equivalents, and more.Like a lot of the accessory apps provided with macOS, Dictionary may be something you’re constantly using, or hardly ever touch.
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