24 Hours of Leopard: Dictionary

Feature: Dictionary

How it works: Find a word you don't know the meaning of, launch the app, find the meaning, and rejoice. But that's not all! The new and improved Dictionary in Leopard defines words, it is true, but it also shows you Wikipedia information about whatever term you searched for. Dictionary has also been integrated into Spotlight, so if you search of a word the Dictionary definition will pop up in the results. Dictionary will also translate Japanese terms into English, and contains an Apple specific dictionary chock full of Apple specific terms (I wonder if TUAW is in there).

Who will use it: Linguists, Seekers of Truth, and people who can't spell (not that that ever happens to me).

And so ends our 24 Hours of Leopard. We hope you've enjoyed this little warm up to the main event, and remember if you want to see all of the posts in this series just check out this page.

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mr_projects

does wikipedia searching work while im offline ?

November 01 2007 at 11:02 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

alto

custom dictionary; look at /Developer/Extras/

October 27 2007 at 11:38 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Chris

The Leopard Dictionary opens up a lot of possiblilites.

â€¢ Well designed MAN pages for every programming language. But only the ones you wish to use can be selected via Preferences.
â€¢ Other language support besides English and Japanaese
â€¢ Other Wikipedia support besides English
â€¢ Medical dictionaries
â€¢ Even Encyclopedias could be incorporated. PNGs are in there so I do see why videos couldn't be added too.
â€¢ 3rd-parties could create specific uses, too.
â€¢ To a lesser extent, rhyming dictionaries and things that hippies might use.'

PS: I really love how Dictionary.app formats and displays Wikipedia and that every word is hyperlinked.

October 27 2007 at 1:40 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

BJ Nemeth

Thanks to everyone at TUAW for the "24 Hours of Leopard" series. It was a great idea to channel all the excitement (for you, the bloggers, and us, the readers), and I enjoyed reading *all* of them.

Thanks!

October 27 2007 at 12:00 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Klokan

Is there some way how to add a custom dictionary (or convert the StarDict one into the Dictionary.app database?
The format of the data and indexes is still proprietary... any idea how to create a converter (if there is not any) is welcome...

October 26 2007 at 8:02 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Joel

Subsequent to installing Leopard I've noticed that the Quicksilver Dictionary Plugin returns a "null" value for all lookups using the Hot Keys. I wonder if this is a result of this update?

October 26 2007 at 6:27 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply